Small German collectors card in the 'Film Stars der Welt' series by Greiling-Sammelbilder, series E, no. 67. Photo: Unionfilm. Max Mairich in O du lieber Fridolin/O you dear Fridolin (Peter Hamel, 1952).
German actor Max Mairich (1910-1990) began his stage career in 1930. After a few film roles, Mairich appeared in numerous television plays, especially literary adaptations and series.
Small West-German collectors card by Greiling Sammelbilder, Serie E, no. 93. Photo: Constantin-Film. Dominique Blanchar in Le secret de Mayerling/The Secret of Mayerling (Jean Delannoy, 1949).
French actress Dominique Blanchar (1927-2018) was the daughter of the actors Pierre Blanchar and Marthe Vinot. She was married to the Belgian actor Jean Servais, until his death in 1976. Her best-known film is probably the Italian classic L'Avventura/The Adventure (1960) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Gabriele Ferzetti, and Monica Vitti. Other known films are Le secret de Mayerling (1949), Eugénie Grandet (1956), and Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967).
Small German collectors card by Greilings-Sammelbilder in the Filmstars der Welt series, 2. band, serie E, bild 95. Photo: Deutsche Commerz. Caption: Picture exchange vouchers contain all packs Greiling O/M, Greiling Cork, Amati Turkish 8.
Sex symbol Martine Carol (1920–1967) was one of the most beautiful women in French cinema. During the early 1950s, she was a top box office draw as an elegant blonde seductress. Her private life was filled with turmoil including a suicide attempt, drug abuse, kidnapping, and mysterious death.
Small German collectors card in the series E - Filmstars der Welt 2. Band by Greilings-sammelbilder, no. 96. Photo: Deutsche Commerz. Viviane Romance in Carmen (Christian-Jaque, 1944).
Temperamental and beautiful French star Viviane Romance (1912-1991) played dozens of flirts, femme fatales and fallen women in black & white classics of the French cinema of the 1930s and 1940s.
German collectors card by Greiling Sammelbilder in the series Filmstars der Welt, 2. Band, Serie E, no. 97. Photo: Allianz Film. Simone Signoret in Manèges/The Cheat (Yves Allégret, 1950).
French actress Simone Signoret (1921-1985) was given the ‘star build-up’ in the postwar years. She went on to become one of the great film actresses of the French cinema and won a BAFTA, an Oscar and many more awards.
Small German collectors card in the 'Film Stars der Welt ' series by Greiling-Sammelbilder, series E, no. 98. Photo: Super-Film. Aime Barelli in Les joyeux pélerins/The Merry Pilgrims (Fred Pasquali, 1951).
Aimé Barelli (1917-1995) was one of the best-known trumpeters on the French jazz scene of the 1940s and 1950s. He also appeared in a few films.
West-German collectors card in the Flmstars der Welt series ny Greiling-Sammelbilder, 2. Band, Serie E, Bild 99. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Italian film and stage actress Valentina Cortese (1923-2019) appeared in more than 100 Italian, French, British and American films and TV series. Cortese was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in François Truffaut’s La nuit américaine/Day for Night (1973). She also worked with such titans of cinema as Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini.
Small German collectors card in the 'Film Stars der Welt' series by Greiling-Sammelbilder, series E, no. 100. Photo: Deutsche Commerz.
Italian heartthrob Amedeo Nazzari (1907-1979) was the athletic, fearless hero and impeccable gentleman of dozens of popular films during the late 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Because of his reckless, adventure-seeking film characters, he was compared to Errol Flynn. After the war, he made a come-back opposite Yvonne Sanson in a series of popular crime melodramas, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. And he showed an admirable sense of irony in his portrayal of a film star in decline in Fellini’s Le notti di Cabiria (1957).
Small German collectors card in the 'Film Stars der Welt' series by Greiling-Sammelbilder, series E, no. 101. Photo: Super-Film. Lea Padovani in Atto di accusa/The Accusation (Giacomo Gentilomo, 1950).
Lea Padovani (1923-1991) was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1945 and 1990. She starred in the French crime film Le Dossier noir/Black Dossier (André Cayatte, 1955) which was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
German collectors card by Greiling Sammelbilder in the series Filmstars der Welt, 2. Band, Serie E, no. 102. Photo: Allianz Film. Silvana Pampanini in O.K. Nerone/O.K. Nero (Mario Soldati, 1951).
Gorgeous Italian actress Silvana Pampanini (1925-2016) knew enormous popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. In the early 1950s, before Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida reached stardom, Pampanini was one of the most well-known symbols of Italian beauty.
Small West-German collectors card by Greiling Sammelbilder, Serie E, no. 103. Photo: Allianz-Film. Gino Cervi in Don Camillo (Julien Duvivier, 1952).
Gino Cervi (1901-1974) was a highly active and equally popular Italian stage, film and television actor from the 1930s to the early 1970s. He is best remembered as Peppone in the Don Camillo films and as Maigret in the RAI TV series.
Small German collectors card in the 'Film Stars der Welt' series by Greiling-Sammelbilder, series E, no. 104. Photo: Deutsche Commerz. Leonora Ruffa and Gino Leurini in La regina di Saba/The Queen of Sheba (Pietro Francisci, 1952).
Italian film actress Leonora Ruffo (1935-2007) was active in peplum and adventure films. An exception is her role as the sensible Sandra Rubini in Federico Fellini's I Vitelloni (1954). Ruffo also starred in a number of 'Fotoromanzi'. She retired from acting in the late 1960s.
Italian film, stage and television actor Gino Leurini (1934-2014) made his film debut in the drama Legge di sangue (Luigi Capuano, 1947). One year later, he got the role of Garrone in Vittorio De Sica and Duilio Coletti's Cuore/Heart and Soul (1948). A critical and commercial success was Léonide Moguy's Domani è troppo tardi/Tomorrow Is Too Late (1949), in which Leurini played the young student Franco opposite Pier Angeli. After this success followed some major roles in adventure films and melodramas.
German collectors card in the series Filmstars der Welt 2. Band by Greiling-Sammelbilder, Serie E, Bild 105. Photo: Rank.
English stage and film actor Marius Goring (1912-1998) is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and as Julian Craster in The Red Shoes (1948). He regularly performed French and German roles.
Small German Collectors card by Greiling in the Filmstars der Welt Series, 2. Band, Serie E, no. 107. Photo: Rank.
British actor David Tomlinson (1917-2000) was both a leading man, a character actor and a comedian. He is best remembered for his roles in the Walt Disney successes Mary Poppins (1964) as authority figure George Banks, The Love Bug (1968) as hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) as fraudulent magician Professor Emelius Browne.
German collectors card by Greiling-Sammelbilder in the series Filmstars der Welt, 2. Band, no. E 109. Photo: Rank.
Distinguished British actor and novelist Sir Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999) was Britain's number one box office draw of the 1950s, gaining the title of ‘The Matinee Idol of the Odeon’. In the 1960s, he abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts in films by Joseph Losey, John Schlesinger, Luchino Visconti, Liliane Cavani and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Bogarde made a total of 63 films between 1939 and 1991.
Small German collectors card in the 'Film Stars der Welt' series by Greiling-Sammelbilder, series E, no. 149. Photo: RKO.
American film actress Joan Evans (1934) was discovered by film producer Samuel Goldwyn at age 14. In a career that spanned only twelve years, Evans appeared in more than 30 films and television series.
Small German collectors card in the 'Film Stars der Welt' series by Greiling-Sammelbilder, series E, no. 150. Photo: Monogram.
Blonde and beautiful Irish actress Peggy Cummins (1925-2017) was unforgettable as the trigger-happy femme fatale who robs banks with her lover in the Film Noir classic Gun Crazy (1949).
Small German collectors card in the 'Film Stars der Welt' series by Greiling-Sammelbilder, series E, no. 152. Photo: RKO.
American actress Janet Leigh (1927-2004) starred in more than 50 films, but will always be remembered for the 45 minutes that she was on the screen in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Her shower scene became a film landmark. She was nominated for an Oscar and received a Golden Globe. Also unforgettable are her roles in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962), in which she starred with Frank Sinatra. Leigh and Tony Curtis were married from 1951 to 1962.
Small German collectors card in the 'Film Stars der Welt' series by Greiling-Sammelbilder, series E, no. 153. Photo: Hamann-Meyerpress.
Swedish actress Signe Hasso (1915-2002) was only 12 when she started to work as a child extra at The Royal Dramatic Theater and was at 16 one of the youngest students to study drama there. She quickly got leading roles in films and received excellent reviews. In 1940 she went to Hollywood and signed a contract with RKO, touted as the "next Garbo". Despite her talent, it didn't lead to any work and she ventured off to New York and the theatre. She signed a contract with MGM and made a dozen films, including Fred Zinnemann's The Seventh Cross (1944), The House on 92nd Street (Henry Hathaway, 1945), and George Cukor's A Double Life (1947). She made a humorous splash in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy Heaven Can Wait (1943) as a lusty French maid. However, she longed to go back to the theatre and worked on Broadway and the West End.
Small German collectors card in the 'Film Stars der Welt' series by Greiling-Sammelbilder, series E, no. 155. Photo: Columbia.
Tall, dark, Swedish-American actress Viveca Lindfors (1920-1995) had a film and stage career in Sweden and Hollywood which spanned more than half a century. Though as talented and beautiful as her compatriots Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman, she never achieved their superstar status.
German collectors card in the series E - Filmstars der Welt 2. Band by Greilings-sammelbilder, no. 162. Photo: Hamann / Meyerpress.
Petite and glamorous Sonja Henie (1912-1969) was one of the greatest figure skaters in history, the ‘Pavlova of the ice’. She won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies figure skater. At the height of her acting career, the Norwegian figure skater and film star was one of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood. She had a shrewd business sense and was immensely successful next with a series of ice revues.
German collectors card in the series E - Filmstars der Welt 2. Band by Greilings-sammelbilder, no. 163. Photo: Hamann / Meyerpress.
American actress and dancer Virginia Mayo (1920-2005) is best known for her series of film comedies with Danny Kaye, including Wonder Man (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (Norman Z. McLeod, 1946), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Norman Z. McLeod, 1947). The popular actress personified the dream girl or girl-next-door and audiences — particularly males — flocked to theatres just to see her blonde hair and classic looks on-screen in Technicolor. It made Mayo Warner Brothers the biggest box office money maker in the late 1940s. Going against stereotype, Mayo accepted the supporting role of unsympathetic gold-digger Marie Derry in the Oscar-winning drama The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946). Her performance drew favourable reviews from critics as the film also became the highest-grossing film in the US since Gone with the Wind. Later she appeared opposite James Cagney in White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949), Burt Lancaster in The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur, 1950), and Gregory Peck in Captain Horatio Hornblower (Raoul Walsh, 1951).
Small German collectors card in the series E - Filmstars der Welt 2. Band by Greilings-sammelbilder, no. 164. Photo: Hamann-Meyerpress.
Statuesque, smart Canadian-born Alexis Smith (1921-1993), with her blue/green eyes and a seductively husky voice, lent a touch of class to her leading ladies of the 1940s and 1950s. She was paired with the top male stars in Hollywood, including Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden and Bing Crosby. She was stylishly attired by costume designers like Milo Anderson and Helen Rose in the most glamorous gowns but also proved to be a capable and spirited actress. She reserved her best acting for the stage and in 1972, she won a Tony award for her starring role in Stephen Sondheim's musical 'Follies'.
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