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  • Belgian collectors card by Kwatta, Bois-d’Haine, no. C. 335. Photo: MGM. Publicity still for My Man and I (William A. Wellman, 1952). American actress Shelley Winters (1920-2006) appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television. She was a major film presence for six decades, and turned herself from a Blonde Bombshell…

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  • British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. D 103. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for The Great Caruso (Richard Thorpe, 1951). Mario Lanza (1921–1959) was an American tenor, actor and Hollywood film star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. His masterpiece was The Great Caruso (Richard Thorpe, 1951), the top-grossing film in the world…

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  • British Real Photograph postcard in the Film Partners series, London, no. P 254. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Marie Antoinette (W.S. Van Dyke, 1938). Beloved Hollywood star Tyrone Power (1914-1958) may have been all-American, but he sure loved European ladies. He was married to both French Annabella and half-Dutch Linda Christian. American actress Norma Shearer…

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  • British Real Photograph postcard in the Film Partners series, London, no. P 254. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Marie Antoinette (W.S. Van Dyke, 1938). Beloved Hollywood star Tyrone Power (1914-1958) may have been all-American, but he sure loved European ladies. He was married to both French Annabella and half-Dutch Linda Christian. American actress Norma Shearer…

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  • British Real Photograph postcard in the Film Partners series, London, no. P 254. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Marie Antoinette (W.S. Van Dyke, 1938). Beloved Hollywood star Tyrone Power (1914-1958) may have been all-American, but he sure loved European ladies. He was married to both French Annabella and half-Dutch Linda Christian. American actress Norma Shearer…

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  • British Real Photograph postcard in the Film Partners series, London, no. P 254. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Marie Antoinette (W.S. Van Dyke, 1938). Beloved Hollywood star Tyrone Power (1914-1958) may have been all-American, but he sure loved European ladies. He was married to both French Annabella and half-Dutch Linda Christian. American actress Norma Shearer…

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  • British Real Photograph postcard in the Film Partners series, London, no. P 254. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Marie Antoinette (W.S. Van Dyke, 1938). Beloved Hollywood star Tyrone Power (1914-1958) may have been all-American, but he sure loved European ladies. He was married to both French Annabella and half-Dutch Linda Christian. American actress Norma Shearer…

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  • French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 408. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). Lana Turner (1921-1995) was one of the most glamorous superstars of Hollywood’s golden era. One of her first lead roles was in Dancing Co-Ed (1939), a vehicle for bandleader Artie Shaw. The two married a year later. Dubbed ‘the Sweater Girl’…

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  • French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 408. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). Lana Turner (1921-1995) was one of the most glamorous superstars of Hollywood’s golden era. One of her first lead roles was in Dancing Co-Ed (1939), a vehicle for bandleader Artie Shaw. The two married a year later. Dubbed ‘the Sweater Girl’…

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  • French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 408. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). Lana Turner (1921-1995) was one of the most glamorous superstars of Hollywood’s golden era. One of her first lead roles was in Dancing Co-Ed (1939), a vehicle for bandleader Artie Shaw. The two married a year later. Dubbed ‘the Sweater Girl’…

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt