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  • From Flickr: “Gary Cooper” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, No. 13. Films Paramount. American screen legend Gary Cooper (1901-1961) is well remembered for his stoic, understated acting style in more than one hundred Westerns, comedies and dramas. He received five Oscar nominations and won twice for his roles as Alvin York in Sergeant York (1941) and as Will Kane in…

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  • From Flickr: “Gary Cooper” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, No. 13. Films Paramount. American screen legend Gary Cooper (1901-1961) is well remembered for his stoic, understated acting style in more than one hundred Westerns, comedies and dramas. He received five Oscar nominations and won twice for his roles as Alvin York in Sergeant York (1941) and as Will Kane in…

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  • From Flickr: “Gary Cooper” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, No. 13. Films Paramount. American screen legend Gary Cooper (1901-1961) is well remembered for his stoic, understated acting style in more than one hundred Westerns, comedies and dramas. He received five Oscar nominations and won twice for his roles as Alvin York in Sergeant York (1941) and as Will Kane in…

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  • From Flickr: “Gary Cooper” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, No. 13. Films Paramount. American screen legend Gary Cooper (1901-1961) is well remembered for his stoic, understated acting style in more than one hundred Westerns, comedies and dramas. He received five Oscar nominations and won twice for his roles as Alvin York in Sergeant York (1941) and as Will Kane in…

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  • From Flickr: “Gary Cooper” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, No. 13. Films Paramount. American screen legend Gary Cooper (1901-1961) is well remembered for his stoic, understated acting style in more than one hundred Westerns, comedies and dramas. He received five Oscar nominations and won twice for his roles as Alvin York in Sergeant York (1941) and as Will Kane in…

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  • From Flickr: “Dorothy Lamour” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard, no. 222. Photo: Paramount. American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996) is best remembered for appearing in the Road to… comedies, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. During World War II, Lamour was among the most popular pin-up girls among American servicemen. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/N3NHUr

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  • From Flickr: “Dorothy Lamour” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard, no. 553. Photo: Paramount. American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996) is best remembered for appearing in the Road to… comedies, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. During World War II, Lamour was among the most popular pin-up girls among American servicemen. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2bNR6m4

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  • From Flickr: “Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot (1959)” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Czech postcard by Pressfoto, Praha (Prague). Photo: publicity still for Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959). Collection: Carla Bosch. By 1953, Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) was one of the most marketable Hollywood stars, with leading roles in three films: the noir Niagara, which focused on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and…

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  • From Flickr: “Brigitte Bardot in Vie Privée (1962)” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Czech postcard by Pressfoto, Praha (Prague). Photo: publicity still for Vie privée/A Very Private Affair (Louis Malle, 1962). Collection: Carla Bosch. Carla: And now Brigitte Bardotova in ”Soukromy Zivot” or “Vie Privée”, released in 1961. Brigitte Bardot plays a girl who lives in Switzerland with her widowed mother. She is infatuated with Marcello Mastroianni who…

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  • From Flickr: “Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift in The Misfits (1961)” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Czech postcard by Pressfoto, Praha (Prague). Photo: publicity still for The Misfits (John Huston, 1961). Collection: Carla Bosch. By 1953, Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) was one of the most marketable Hollywood stars, with leading roles in three films: the noir Niagara, which focused on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to…

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt