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Showing posts with label German. Show all posts
Showing posts with label German. Show all posts

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Brigitte Helm

Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)

Brigitte Helm (17 March 1906 – 11 June 1996) was a German actress. After her role in Metropolis she made a string of movies in which she almost always had the starring role, easily making the transition to sound films. Her last film was Ein idealer Gatte (An Ideal Spouse) in 1935.
Source: oldhollywoodlucywho

Monday, September 3, 2012

Dita Parlo

Lovely Dita Parlo, born Grethe Gerda Kornstädt in Stettin (present-day Szczecin, (4 September 1906 – 13 December 1971),  was a star of German and French films of the late 1920's and 1930's, who also worked briefly in Hollywood. She inspired both Dita Von Teese and Madonna, the latter used her name & character from L'Atalante for her Sex book and Erotica album.
Source: Bifi.fr, Wikipedia (French) 

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Vintage Photo

The Dancer O-Ren (1920), “The dancer O-Ren.” Photo caption translated from the German.
 From an article by Maria Piper, entitled “Gattin oder Geisha, herrenfeste und tänzerinnen, impressionen aus dem heutigen Japan - Wife or Geisha, festivals and dancers, impressions of today’s Japan” in Westermanns Monatshefte, Band 146, II; Heft 875, published in 1929, pages 457-464.”
Source: flickr | okiya

Monday, August 20, 2012

Georg John

Georg John (July 23, 1879 – November 18, 1941) was a German stage and film actor. Georg John was born in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany.
Source: wikimedia

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Willy Fritsch

Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, the popular leading man in German silent motion-pictures.
Source: ibaic  google

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Camilla Horn


Camilla Horn (25 April 1903, Frankfurt am Main – 14 August 1996) was a German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era.
Source: ibaicu | google | allstarpics

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Vintage Film


The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer.
 Source: wikipedia

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Alfred Eisenstaedt

By Alfred Eisenstaedt 1939



Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 - August 24, 1995) was a German born American photographer and photojournalist.
  Source: 40s, 50's, 60's | wikipedia





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