#german actress

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Sandra Hüller in “Digger” by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

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❀ 𝐔𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐎𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐞𝐫 (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟗) ❀

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US Vogue May 15, 1953

Miss Dietrich, at a circus charity performance at Madison Square Garden, in the role of Master of Ceremonies. In a costume, which she herself artfully designed, which highlighted the red of her coat, her diamond earrings, her shiny boots and her silk hat tilted to the side.

Miss Dietrich, lors d'un spectacle de bienfaisance du cirque au Madison Square Garden, dans le rôle du Maître de Cérémonie. Dans un costume, qu'elle a elle-même conçu avec art qui mettait en valeur le rouge de son manteau, ses boucles d'oreilles en diamant, ses bottes brillantes et son chapeau de soie incliné sur le côté.

Photo Milton Greene

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Mary Kid

By Alexander Binder (ca.1927)

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Born 65 years ago today (24 January 1961): haunting and exquisite German actress Nastassja Kinski. When I was a teenager, that 1981 Richard Avedon poster featuring Kinski reclining naked with a Burmese python coiled around her was ubiquitous, she was favorably compared to everyone from Ingrid Berman to Audrey Hepburn to Brigitte Bardot and widely hailed as one of the most beautiful women in the world. By 1983, Time magazine was heralding Kinski in a cover story as one of the “Hot Faces from Europe” alongside red-hot up-and-coming peers Isabella Rossellini and Poland’s Joanna Pacula. (Rossellini, obviously, went onto great things whereas Pacula peaked early and then descended into “erotic dramas”, straight to video action thrillers and – worst of all – Steven Seagal movies). Anyway, in her wildly erratic career Kinski is best remembered for her collaborations with major directors like Roman Polanski (Tess (1979)), Paul Schrader (Cat People (1982)), Francis Ford Coppola (One from the Heart (1982)) and Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas (1984)). After the mega-flop Revolution (1985), Kinski virtually retired to focus on raising her children and thereafter only sporadically acted, focusing mainly on kitschy made-for-TV mini-series (like Danielle Steel's The Ring (1996)) and obscure Italian films. Which is a shame: I remember seeing Kinski crop up in Michael Winterbottom’s 2000 neo-Western The Claim. Playing a stoically-suffering woman dying of tuberculosis in the hardscrabble Old West, she was melancholy, doomed and Garbo-like. Then there’s her inexplicable, fleeting and silent cameo appearance sitting on a couch at the very end of David Lynch’s Inland Empire (2006)! What was that about? Pictured: a shockingly gorgeous, blonde-wigged Kinski as she appears in the 1978 film Das Hotel der leidenschaftlichen Blümchen (aka Passion Flower Hotel).

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Natalia Avelon ✶𝒮ℋ ✶

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Brigitte Helm - Publicity pic for her role as "Baroness Sandorf" in the surviving 1928 French silent drama 'L'argent' (Money) 1928