Vintage card. Photo: still for Lucrèce Borgia/Lucretia Borgia (Christian-Jaque, 1953).

Sex symbol Martine Carol (1920–1967) was one of the most beautiful women of the French cinema. During the early 1950’s 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, a kidnapping, and a mysterious death.

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Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano, no. R 221.

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Dutch-German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 176/4. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still for Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille, 1932). On the back: Boekhandel Leonard Tijssen, Leeuwarden.

Claudette Colbert as Empress Poppaea, bathing in donkey milk. Pliny the Elder describes how Poppaea indeed did so: " It is generally believed that ass milk effaces wrinkles in the face, renders the skin more delicate, and preserves its whiteness: and it is a well-known fact, that some women are in the habit of washing their face with it seven times daily, strictly observing that number. Poppaea, the wife of Emperor Nero, was the first to practice this; indeed, she had sitting baths, prepared solely with ass milk, for which purpose whole troops of she-asses used to attend her on her journeys." Publicity card for the American epic The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille, Paramount 1932). NB the dolphin fountain is copied from an 18th-century fountain by Vanvitelli at the Royal Palace in Caserta.

With her round apple-face, big eyes and charm, French-born Hollywood star Claudette Colbert (1903-1996) was the epitome of chic sophistication. Her comedies It Happened One Night (1934) - for which she won the Oscar, Midnight (1939) and The Palm Beach Story (1942) are among Hollywood's greatest ever. After more than 60 films, she returned with great success to the theatre and was 84 years old when she won a Golden Globe for the TV mini-series The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987).

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German press photo. Photo: Felicitas Timps, München Anny Duperey, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Sydne Rome in Umarmungen und andere Sachen/Embraces (Jochen Richter, 1975).

French actress Anny Duperey (1947) is known for her stage, film and television roles, but she is also a best-selling author. Duperey is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.

French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944) is best known for playing Antoine Doinel in Les Quatre Cents Coups/The 400 Blows (1959) and François Truffaut's following series of films about that character. He also worked several times with Jean-Luc Godard, and is one of the icons of the French New Wave. He is also known for his staccato diction.

United States-born Sydne Rome (1951) was a gorgeous starlet, who lived in Italy since the early 1970s. She worked in Europe with interesting directors like Roman Polanski, Duccio Tessari, Claude Chabrol and Sergei Bondarchuk, although the results were not always successful. In the 1980s she became Jane Fonda's rival in the aerobics craze.

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German postcard by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft (Ufa), Berlin Tempelhof. Photo: Eberhardt Schmidt / Casino Film. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.

Anneli Sauli (1932-2022) was a Finnish actress with a very long stage and film career. As Ann Savo, she appeared in several German films of the 1950s and 1960s.

Anneli Sauli or Ann Savo was born Anneli Helena Savolainen in 1932 in Pyhäjoki, Finland. She was the daughter of Tapio and Salli Savolainen, but her biological father was Valdemar Swarz, a Romani. T.J. Särkkä came up with the name Sauli for her first film, the successful musical comedy Me tulemme taas/We Come During Spring (Armand Lohikoski, 1953), which he was producing. During the same year, Särkkä also directed and produced the romantic drama Hilja - maitotyttö/The Milkmaid (T.J. Särkkä, 1953) which was her breakthrough to stardom. Särkkä had been looking for years for the perfect girl to play the lead in this film based on the novel 'Hilja the Milkmaid' by Johannes Linnankoski. When it premiered in Finland, the film caused a stir and controversy due to its eroticism and the rape scene included in the story; however, the erotic content guaranteed the sale of the film to a dozen other countries. She starred in the films 1918 (Toivo Särkkä, 1957) with Åke Lindman and Miriam (William Markus, 1957), which were both entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.

From the late 1950s to the early 1960s Anneli Sauli lived and worked in West-Germany using the name Ann Savo. She starred in such German films as the war drama Unruhige Nacht/The Restless Night (Falk Harnack, 1958) starring Hansjörg Felmy, the Edgar Wallace krimi Die toten Augen von London/The Dead Eyes of London (Alfred Vohrer, 1961) starring Joachim Fuchsberger, and Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (Werner Klingler, 1962) starring Gert Fröbe and Senta Berger. However, she also continued to act in Finland in such films as the comedy-thriller Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen/No corpses in the bedroom (Aarne Tarkas, 1959). Anneli Sauli was a theatre actress for over 25 years, and retired in 1996. She continued to appear in his films and one of her best known Finnish films is the comedy-drama Mies vailla menneisyyttä/The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, 2002) which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002 (the only Finnish film so far) and won the Grand Prix at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, she received her first Jussi Award nomination (Finnish Oscar) for Kohtaamisia/Heartbeats (Saara Cantell, 2009). In 2013, she was finally awarded with a Jussi Award for lifetime achievement in film, after a film career lasting longer than 60 years. Her final screen appearance was in the TV series Syke (2020). Sauli died in Helsinki on 15 March 2022, at the age of 89. She was married and divorced twice. Both her husbands were actor/directors, Åke Lindman (1956-1962) and Jaakko Pakkasvirta (1965-1968). Anneli Sauli died in 2022 in Helsinki, Finland. She was the mother of Johanna Lahtela.

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