Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano, no. 319. Photo: Documento Film.
Sophia Loren (1934) rose to fame in post-war Italy as a voluptuous sex goddess. Soon after, she became one of the most successful stars of the 20th Century, who won an Oscar for her mother role in La Ciociara (Vittorio De Sica, 1960).
Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 1209. Photo: Dear Film.
Glamorous English actress Joan Collins (1933) is one of the great survivors of the cinema. She began in the early 1950s as a voluptuous starlet in British film. 20th Century Fox brought her to Hollywood as their answer to Elizabeth Taylor. In the 1970s she was the ‘Queen of the B-pictures’, but in the 1980s Joan became the highest-paid TV star, thanks to Dynasty.
Spanish postcard by Archivo Bermejo, no. 10, 1964. Photo: Universal.
Italian actress Sylva Koscina (1933-1994) may be best remembered as Iole, the bride of Steve Reeves in the original version of Hercules (1958). She also starred in several Italian and Hollywood comedies of the 1950s and 1960s.
Spanish postcard by Postal Oscar Color S.A., Hospitalet (Barcelona), no. 686.
German-born Austrian Susan Denberg (1944) was a Bluebell dancer and Playboy Playmate who had a brief acting career in the 1960s. One of her few roles was as Peter Cushing’s beautiful new creation in the Hammer horror Frankenstein Created Woman (1967).
Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 1111. Photo: Diva Film.
Janet Vidor was an Italian actress who starred in a few films in the 1950s. She played the female lead role in Rigoletto e la sua tragedia/Rigoletto (Flavio Calzavara, 1956), a musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Rigoletto'. She also starred in Mamma sconosciuta/Mother Unknown (Carlo Campogalliani, 1956) as a widow who remarries, but then, her first husband, given for dead with his daughter, reappears before her. Her eighth and last film was the comedy Via col para... vento (Mario Costa, 1958) with Maurizio Arena.
French postcard by Editions P.I., licence holder for Ufa, Berlin-Tempelhof, no. FK 1216. Photo: Dial / Unitalia Film, Rom (Rome).
Cosetta Greco (1930-2002) was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 31 films between 1943 and 1971. She is famous for fillms such as Il brigante di Tacca del Lupo/The Bandit of T. del L. (Pietro Germi, 1952), Le ragazze di piazza di Spagna/Three Girls from Rome (Luciano Emmer, 1952), Gli eroi della domenica/Sunday Heroes (Mario Camerini, 1953), and Cronache di poveri amanti/Chronicle of Poor Lovers (Carlo Lizzani, 1954).
Spanish postcard by Postal Oscarcolor, no. 552.
French actress Claudine Auger (1941-2019) was best known as Bond Girl Domino in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). At 17, she was Miss France 1958 and she became the first runner-up in the Miss World contest. Later she worked mostly in France and Italy.
Italian postcard, no. 609.
Italian starlet Scilla Gabel (1938) often played the damsel in distress in peplums, the Italian sand and sandal epics of the late 1950s and 1960s. With her perfect body and face, she was a look-a-like for Sophia Loren. Between 1954 and 1982, the blue-eyed redhead appeared in 50 European and Hollywood films.
Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 1650. Photo: Paramount.
Glamorous French beauty Nicole Maurey (1926) appeared in 65 film and television productions between 1944 and 1997. She flirted with Hollywood stardom in the 1950s, co-starring with Bing Crosby in Little Boy Lost (1953) and Danny Kaye in Me and the Colonel (1958). She probably remains most noted as Charlton Heston's leading lady in Secret of the Incas (1954), often cited as the primary inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 66 B. Photo: Bud Fraker / Paramount Pictures Inc, 1955.
Swedish film actress, party girl and sex symbol Anita Ekberg (1931-2015) was nicknamed "The Iceberg". Miss Sweden 1950 was contracted by Howard Hughes, had a Hollywood career in the 1950s, but got her real breakthrough in Italy. She made film history as the sensual, curvaceous film goddess who dances in the Trevi Fountain in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960). She was also unforgettable as a sexy billboard figure coming to life in Fellini's short film Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio/The Temptation of Doctor Antonio (1962).
German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden/Westf., no. 1745.
Austrian-born starlet Jackie Lane (1937) was a stunningly beautiful model and film actress of the 1950s and 1960s, who starred both in European films and in Hollywood pictures. She was married to Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.
Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 153.
Italian actress Marisa Allasio (1936) was a glamorous starlet who appeared in nearly twenty pictures in the 1950s. She was nicknamed ‘The Italian Jayne Mansfield’. In 1958 her career stopped abruptly when she married and became a countess.
French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 844. Photo: Sam Lévin.
Christine Carère (1930-2008), was a French actress. She began her career in the theatre and then moved on to French cinema. Between 1951 and 1958, she appeared in about twenty, mainly French films, but she also acted in a few Italian and American films.
Dutch postcard. Photo: J. Arthur Rank Organisation.
Romanian-born actress Nadia Gray (1923–1994) was an elegant and seductive star of European films of the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps she is best known for her striptease scene in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960).
Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano, no. 972.
Former French actress Cathia Caro (1943) was a young, delicate beauty. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, she starred in French and especially Italian films, opposite such stars as Totò, Peppino De Filippo and Aldo Fabrizi.
French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 659. Photo: Sam Lévin.
French stage actress Geneviève Kervine (1931-1989) appeared in some 30 films during the 1950s and 1960s. Although she was good-looking and chosen as the most promising actress of 1955 in France, most of her films proved to be not very memorable.
German postcard by ISV, no. 16/6. Photo: Lothar Winkler.
Croatian singer and actress Dunja Rajter (1946) is a dark-haired beauty who had a successful career in Germany from 1963 on. To film fans, she is probably best known for her roles as a squaw in two Winnetou Westerns.
Dutch postcard by P. Moorlag, Heerlen, no. Sort. 13/6.
British-Austrian actress Mara Lane (1930) was considered one of the most beautiful models in Great Britain during the early 1950s. She appeared in more than 30 English and German language films of the 1950s and early 1960s but seems completely forgotten now.
Spanish postcard, no. 240, 1964.
Stunning Swiss sex symbol, starlet and jet-setter Ursula Andress (1936) will always be remembered as the first and quintessential Bond girl. In Dr. No (1962), she made film history when she spectacularly rose out of the Caribbean Sea in a white bikini. Though she won a Golden Globe Ursula's looks generally outweighed her acting talent and she never took her film career very seriously.
Dutch postcard. Photo: J. Arthur Rank Organisation.
British actress Sandra Dorne (1924-1992) was a sexy and glamorous bombshell. She was a popular pin-up early in her career, played leads in the 1950s and later appeared in supporting roles.
Belgian collectors card by Music-fan, no. 2.
Glamorous, Italian film actress Rosanna Schiaffino (1938-2009) was a show business icon of the 1960s. She appeared frequently in sword-and-sandal films, and on covers of European and American magazines.
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