German postcard by ISV, no. K 33. Photo: Erwin Schneider.

German schlager singer and actor Roy Black (1943-1991) appeared in several musical comedies. He was Germany's most popular singer in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Boeing 757/2W of Icelandair on final approach to rwy.26L at London Gatwick-LGW,30/07/16.

German postcard by ISV, no. K 44. Photo: Erwin Schneider.

German schlager singer and actor Roy Black (1943-1991) appeared in several musical comedies. He was Germany's most popular singer in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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This "Improvised Scanning Vehicle" is a former military low altitude scouting vehicle, repurposed by ill-equipped mining colonies for finding ores.

It can also be outfitted with wings to cover large distances more economically and to extend it's operating altitude.

French postcard by Huit, Paris, French licence holder for ISV, no. B 4. Photo: 20th Century Fox. Tyrone Power in King of the Khyber Rifles (Henry King, 1953).

Strikingly handsome Tyrone Power (1914-1959) was one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of Hollywood’s golden age. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power starred in such adventure films as The Mark of Zorro (1940), Blood and Sand (1941), The Black Swan (1942), Captain from Castile (1947), Prince of Foxes (1949) and The Black Rose (1950). Among his best films are the Film Noir Nightmare Alley (1949) and Billy Wilder’s Witness for the Prosecution (1957). In the 1950s, he devoted more time to theatre productions and received accolades for his roles in 'John Brown's Body' and 'Mister Roberts'. Power died from a heart attack at the age of 44.

Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. (also called Tyrone Power III) was born at his mother's home in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1914. He was the third Tyrone Power of four in a famed acting dynasty reaching back to the eighteenth century. His great-grandfather was the first Tyrone Power (1795-1841), a famed Irish comedian. His father, known to historians as Tyrone Power Sr., but to his contemporaries as either Tyrone Power or Tyrone Power the Younger, was a huge star in the theatre and later in films. On stage, he acted in both classical and modern roles. His mother, Helen Emma ‘Patia’ née Reaume (Mrs. Tyrone Power), was also a Shakespearean actress as well as a respected dramatic coach. A frail, sickly child, Tyrone was taken by his parents to the warmer climate of southern California. He made his stage debut at age seven, appearing with his father in a stage production at San Gabriel Mission. After his parents' divorce, he and his sister Anne Power returned to Cincinnati with their mother. There, he attended school while developing an obsession with acting. Although raised by his mother, he corresponded with his father, who encouraged his acting dreams. He was a supernumerary in his father's stage production of 'The Merchant of Venice' in Chicago. After turning professional, Power supported himself between engagements, working as a theatre usher and other such odd jobs. Tyrone was scheduled to make his film debut playing with his father, Tyrone Power Sr., in The Miracle Man (Norman Z. McLeod, 1932). Tyrone held his father as he died suddenly of a heart attack while preparing for his role. They were both replaced. Startlingly handsome, young Tyrone nevertheless struggled to find work in Hollywood. He appeared in a few small roles, then went east to do stage work in Katherine Cornell's theatrical company. Among the Broadway plays in which he was cast are 'Flowers of the Forest', 'Saint Joan', and 'Romeo and Juliet'.

Tyrone Power did a screen test, which led to a contract at 20th Century Fox in 1936. He was cast in a supporting role in the Simone Simon vehicle Girl's Dormitory (Irving Cummings, 1936). The reaction from preview audiences to Fox's new contractee was so enthusiastic that Darryl F. Zanuck ordered that Power's part be expanded for the final release version. Power played the lead in the drama Lloyd's of London (Henry King, 1936) opposite Madeleine Carroll and Guy Standing. Loosely based on historical events, the film follows the dealings of a man who works for Lloyd's of London during the Napoleonic Wars. Lloyd's of London was a hit; it demonstrated that 22-year-old Power, in his first starring role, could carry a film and that the newly formed 20th Century Fox was a major Hollywood studio. He walked into the premiere of the film as an unknown and he walked out a star, which he remained the rest of his career. As Fox's biggest male star, he played in contemporary and period pieces with ease. Power racked up hit after hit from 1936 until 1943. Jim Beaver at IMDb: “Most of his roles were colourful without being deep, and his swordplay was more praised than his wordplay.” He was loaned out by Fox once, to MGM for Marie Antoinette (W. S. Van Dyke, 1938), starring Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette. The film was based on the 1932 biography of the ill-fated Queen of France by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. Fox mogul Darryl F. Zanuck was angry that MGM used Fox's biggest star in what was, despite the billing, a supporting role, and he vowed never again to loan him out. After the hit The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian, 1940), Power's career took a dramatic turn. He became the romantic, swashbuckling hero of such adventure films as Blood and Sand (Rouben Mamoulian, 1941) with Rita Hayworth, and The Black Swan (Henry King, 1942) with Maureen O’Hara. In 1943, Power served in the Marine Corps in World War II as a transport pilot, and he saw action in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "Power was a much better actor than he was given credit for at the time. He also handled his celebrity like an old pro; he was well-liked by his co-stars and crew, and from all reports was an able and respected leader of men while serving as a Marine Corps officer during World War II."

After the war, Tyrone Power got his best reviews for an atypical part as a downward-spiralling con man in the Film Noir Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947). Although he remained a huge star, much of his post-war work was unremarkable. Zanuck released several costume-clad adventure films with Power, including Captain from Castile (Henry King, 1947), Prince of Foxes (Henry King, 1949) with Orson Welles, and The Black Rose (Henry Hathaway, 1950) with Cécile Aubry. He continued to do notable stage work and also began producing films. Darryl F. Zanuck persuaded him to play the lead role in The Sun Also Rises (Henry King, 1957), adapted from the Ernest Hemingway novel, with Ava Gardner and Errol Flynn. This was his final film with Fox. Power gave a fine performance opposite Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton in the Agatha Christie adaptation Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder, 1957). Next, Power began production on Solomon and Sheba (King Vidor, 1959). Halfway through shooting, he collapsed during a duelling scene with George Sanders, and he died of a heart attack before reaching a hospital. He was replaced by Yul Brynner. Power’s last complete work was a public-service announcement for television (in which he appeared on a motion-picture set in costume) about spotting the signs of a heart attack and going to the hospital to have a doctor check it out... Power had been married three times. His first wife was French actress Annabella (1939-1948). After their divorce, he married Mexican actress Linda Christian (1949-1956), with whom he had two daughters, singer-actress Romina Francesca Power (1951) and actress Taryn Power (1953). His third wife was Deborah Jean Smith Minardos (7 May 1958 - 15 November 1958; his death). Their son, Tyrone William Power IV (1959), was born, some two months after Power's death. He became known professionally as Tyrone Power Jr. and also followed his father in the family acting tradition. Power was also the adoptive father of Annabella’s daughter, Ann Power. Tyrone Power is interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever), Hollywood, CA. His tombstone includes the masks of Comedy and Tragedy and the inscription, "Good night, sweet prince...".

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German postcard by ISV, no. A 39. Photo: 20th Century Fox.

Richard Todd (1919–2009) was an Irish-born British stage and film actor and soldier. During the 1950s, he was one of Britain's biggest stars at the box office, and also achieved some success in Hollywood.

Richard Todd OBE was born as Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd in Dublin, Ireland in 1919. His father, Andrew William Palethorpe Todd, was an Irish physician and an international Irish rugby player who gained three caps for his country. Richard spent a few of his childhood years in India, where his father, a British officer, served as an army physician. Later his family moved to Devon and Todd attended Shrewsbury School. Upon leaving school, Todd trained for a potential military career at Sandhurst before inaugurating his acting training at The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. This change in career led to estrangement from his mother. When he learned at age 19 that she had committed suicide, he did not grieve long for her, he admitted in later life. A year earlier, he had first appeared professionally as an actor at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in a 1936 production of Twelfth Night. His first film appearance was as an extra in the Will Hays comedy Good Morning, Boys (Marcel Varnel, 1937). He played in regional theatres and then co-founded the Dundee Repertory Theatre in 1939. During the Second World War, Todd joined the British Army, receiving a commission in 1941. Initially, he served in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry before joining the Parachute Regiment and being assigned to the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion as part of the British 6th Airborne Division. On D-Day, he participated as a captain, in the British Airborne Operation Tonga. Todd was among the first British officers to land in Normandy. His battalion were reinforcements that parachuted in after glider forces had landed and completed the main assault against Pegasus Bridge near Caen. He later met up with Major John Howard on Pegasus Bridge and helped repel several German counterattacks. As an actor, Todd would later play Howard in the film The Longest Day (Ken Annakin a.o., 1962), while Todd himself was played by another actor.

After the war, Richard Todd returned to repertory theatre in the UK. He was appearing in a play when he was spotted by Robert Lennard, a casting director for Associated British Picture Corporation. That company offered him a screen test, and subsequently signed him for a long-term contract in 1948. He was cast in the crime film For Them That Trespass (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1949). Todd had appeared in the Dundee Repertory stage version of The Hasty Heart, playing the role of Yank and was subsequently chosen to appear in the West End version of the play, this time in the leading role of Captain Lachlan McLachlan. He then replaced Richard Basehart in the Broadway production and being cast opposite Ronald Reagan in the Warner Bros. film adaptation, The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman, 1949), which was filmed in Britain. Todd was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Captain MacLachlan, won a Golden Globe as Best Newcomer and was also voted favorite British male film star in Britain's National Film Awards. Next, Alfred Hitchcock used him in Stage Fright (1950) starring Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich. Then he made a film in Hollywood, the drama Lightning Strikes Twice (King Vidor, 1951). Neither did particularly well at the box office. He appeared in three historical adventure films for Disney, The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (Ken Annakin,.1952), The Sword and the Rose (Ken Annakin, 1953), and Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1953) with Glynis Johns. For the BBC he appeared as Heathcliff in a very popular TV adaptation of the novel Wuthering Heights (Rudolph Cartier, 1953), with Yvonne Mitchell as Cathy. Nigel Kneale, responsible for the adaptation, said the production came about purely because Todd had turned up at the BBC and told them that he would like to play Heathcliff for them. Kneale had to write the script in only a week as the broadcast was rushed into production. Todd's career received a boost when 20th Century-Fox signed him to a non-exclusive contract and cast him as the United States Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall in the box-office hit A Man Called Peter (1955), with Jean Peters. This was followed by the war film, The Dam Busters (Michael Anderson, 1955) with Michael Redgrave. This was the true story of how the British attacked German dams in WW2 by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective .Todd played Wing Commander Guy Gibson, which would become the defining role of his career for which he would be remembered. Other notable films he starred in include the historical drama The Virgin Queen (Henry Koster, 1955) starring Bette Davis, Saint Joan (Otto Preminger, 1957) featuring Jean Seberg as Joan of Arc, the British war film The Yangtse Incident (Michael Anderson, 1957) and the thriller Intent to Kill (Jack Cardiff, 1958).

Richard Todd was the first choice of author Ian Fleming to play James Bond in Dr. No. Todd had to turn down the role due to scheduling conflicts. And the part went to a certain Sean Connery. Todd unsuccessfully attempted to produce a film of Ian Fleming's The Diamond Smugglers and a television series based on true accounts of the Queen's Messengers. However, he did appear in such films as the crime drama Never Let Go (John Guillermin, 1960) with Peter Sellers, the war drama The Long and the Short and the Tall (Leslie Norman, 1961), the Western The Hellions (Irwin Allen, Ken Annakin, 1961), the crime drama The Boys (Sidney J. Furie, 1962) and The Longest Day (Ken Annakin a.o., 1962). Todd’s opportunities in the cinema substantially declined throughout the 1960s as the counter-culture movement in the Arts took hold and Todd's character-type as the heroic patriotic male lead became an anachronism to a younger audience's sentiment. Later films included The Very Edge (Cyril Frankel, 1963) and the horror thriller Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray/Dorian Gray (Massimo Dallamano, 1970) featuring Helmut Berger. In 1970 he founded Triumph Theatre Productions, with which he toured extensively abroad in many plays. In the 1970s, he also gained new fans when he appeared as the reader for Radio Four's Morning Story. In the 1980s his distinctive voice was heard as narrator of the series Wings Over the World, a show about the history of aviation shown on Arts & Entertainment television. He appeared before the camera in the episode about the Lancaster bomber. His last film appearance was in the little known action drama Olympus Force: The Key (James Fortune, Robert Garofalo, 1988) with Linda Thorson. Todd continued to act on television, including roles in Virtual Murder (1992), Silent Witness (2000), and in the Doctor Who story Kinda in 1982. His active acting career extended into his eighties. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1993.He was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions, in March 1960 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, and in November 1988, when Michael Aspel surprised him on stage at the Theatre Royal Windsor. Both Todd's marriages ended in divorce. His first was to actress Catherine Grant-Bogle, whom he met in Dundee Repertory and was married to from 1949 until 1970; they had a son Peter (1952–2005) and a daughter Fiona. In 1960 he had a son Jeremy with model Patricia Nelson. He was married to model Virginia Mailer from 1970 until 1992; they had two sons, Andrew and Seamus (1977–1997). Two of Todd's children committed suicide. In 1997, Seamus Palethorpe-Todd shot himself in the head in the family home in Lincolnshire. An inquest determined that the suicide might have been a depressive reaction to the drug he was taking for severe acne. In 2005, Peter killed himself with a shotgun, following marital difficulties. His sons' suicides affected Todd profoundly; he admitted to visiting their adjoining graves regularly. He suffered from cancer, and died in his sleep at his Little Humby home in 2009. Richard Todd was buried between his two sons Seamus and Peter at St. Guthlacs the church in Little Ponton, England.

Sources: Jim Beaver (IMDb), Find A Grave., Wikipedia and IMDb.

German postcard by ISV, no. B 20. Photo: MGM. Publicity still for The Brothers Karamazov (Richard Brooks, 1958).

Yul Brynner (Юлий Борисович Бринер, 1920–1985) was a Russian-born United States-based film and stage actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the King Mongkut of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I. He played the role 4,625 times on stage and won two Tony Awards. For the film version, The King and I (Walter Lang, 1956), he also won the Academy Award. He quickly gained superstar status with his roles as Rameses II in the blockbuster The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956) and General Bounine in the historical drama Anastasia (Anatole Litvak, 1956) opposite Ingrid Bergman, and made the 'Top 10 Stars of the Year' list in both 1957 and 1958. Later roles include Chris Adams in the Western The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960) and a gunslinger robot in the Science fiction Western-thriller Westworld (Michael Crichton, 1973). Brynner was noted for his distinctive voice and for his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it in 1951 for his role in The King and I. Earlier, he was a model and television director, and later a photographer and the author of two books. Brynner married four times, and had a long affair with Marlene Dietrich.

Source: Wikipedia.

German postcard by ISV, nr. D 28.

Handsome Christian Wolff (1938) was the young lover of many German films of the late 1950s. He started out in the controversial 'gay' film Anders als Du und Ich/The Third Sex (1957) and became in the 1980s a popular TV star in the long running family series Forsthaus Falkenau (1989-2006).

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German postcard by ISV, nr. H 86.

Italian singer and actor Robertino Loretti (1946) is best known as 'The Young Italian Singing Sensation' of the early 1960’s. As a child star he appeared in Italian, Danish and German films. Today he is a living legend, especially in Russia.

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This "Improvised Scanning Vehicle" is a former military low altitude scouting vehicle, repurposed by ill-equipped mining colonies for finding ores.

It can also be outfitted with wings to cover large distances more economically and to extend it's operating altitude.

Airline: Icelandair

Aircraft: Boeing B757-200

Registration: TF-ISV

C/n: 26247/860

Time & Location: 10.06.2017, EFHK, Finland

German postcard by ISV, no. C 11. Photo: Constantin. Stewart Granger and Götz George in Unter Geiern / Among Vultures (Alfred Vohrer, 1964).

German actor Götz George (1938) has been a popular film and theatre star for five decades now, but he gained international stardom on television in the Krimi series Tatort as the maverick police detective Horst Schimanski.

English actor Stewart Granger (1913–1993) became Britain's top box office star in the 1940’s which attracted Hollywood's attention. Tall, dark, dignified and handsome, Granger made over 60 films but is mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was quoted: “I've never done a film I'm proud of”.

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German postcard by ISV, no. J 1. Photo: Union-Film.

German actress Hannelore Bollmann (1930) was a popular star of comedies and heimatfilms in the 1950’s. She often starred in the films of Franz Antel, then her husband.

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German postcard by ISV, nr. H 25.

In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s Alain Delon (1935) was the breathtakingly good-looking James Dean of the French cinema. The “male Brigitte Bardot” soon proved to be a magnificent actor in masterpieces by Luchino Visconti and Michelangelo Antonioni. In the late sixties Delon came to epitomise the calm, psychopathic hoodlum in the 'policiers' of Jean-Pierre Melville, staring into the camera like a cat assessing a mouse.

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German postcard by ISV, nr. D 1. Photo: Luxardo.

Blonde, blue-eyed Swedish actress May Britt (1933) had a brief career as a film star in the 1950’s, in Italy first and later in the United States. She retired from the screen after she married Sammy Davis, Jr. in 1960.

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German postcard by ISV, no. C 5. Photo: Cosmos-Neusser/Gloria/Appelt.

Austrian actress Johanna Matz (1932) made a blitz career in the 1950s as the natural ‘Wiener Mädel’ (the Viennese Gal). She acted in more than forty films and tv films, but she considered herself primarily a theatre actress.

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Big German card by ISV, no. EX 26. Photo: Constantin / Rapid / Lothar Winkler. Freddy Quinn in Heimweh nach St. Pauli / Homesick for St. Pauli (Werner Jacobs, 1963).

Austrian singer and film star Freddy Quinn (1931) adopted the persona of the rootless wanderer who goes to sea but longs for a home, family and friends. He also sang and acted in many popular schlager films of the 1950s and early 1960s.

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TF-ISV - Boeing 757-256 (w) - 26247/860 - Icelandair - Dublin International Airport - Sunday - 20-10-2019

24/05/2023. Ladies European Tour 2023. Belgian Ladies Open, Naxhelet Golf Club, Belgium. 26-28 May. Alexandra Swayne of the US Virgin Islands Credit: Mark Runnacles/ LET

Icelandair registry TF-ISV, a 16 year old Boeing 757-256 named the "Grábrók" ("Crater"), loads passengers at a gate of Keflavik International Airport (KEF), prior to a flight to Flughafen Frankfurt (Frankfurt Airport) in Germany. The pilots are seen in this close-up of the plane's nose. The poster / photographer was on this flight, explaining why he's on the jetway... Taken by a Nikon D610 at ISO 400 with a Nikkor 50mm ƒ 1.4 AF-D lens.

HNZ Group (PHI Aviation) VH-ISV Sikorsky S-92A Helibus c/n 92-0028.

German postcard by ISV, no. E 16. Photo: Witt-Film / Constantin / Bokelberg.

Swiss actress Liselotte Pulver (1929) was one of the most beloved stars of the German popular cinema of the 1950’s and early 1960’s. Despite a wide variety of roles, she is best remembered as the merry tomboy in sparkling comedies like Das Wirtshaus im Spessart/The Spessart Inn (1958).

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Icelandic registry TF-ISV, a 16 year old Boeing 757-256 named the "Grábrók" ("Crater"), sits at a gate of Keflavik International Airport (KEF) being prepared for a flight to Flughafen Frankfurt (Frankfurt Airport, FRA) in Germany. The poster / photographer was on this flight. Taken by a Nikon D610 at ISO 400 with a Nikkor 50mm ƒ 1.4 AF-D lens.

... playing over Plansee after a literally totally, in the original sense of the word, amazing flight.

I started in Innsbruck by air tow at a cozy 1400m AGL. Then I flew east along the Nordkette ridge line and circled up in a decent thermal over Hochnissl.

After getting clearance from Innsbruck Tower I crossed over to Kellerjoch. Tower agreed to some more circling there which allowed me to continue the rest of the flight above 3000m with one or two exceptions.

I flew through the Zillertaler/Hintertuxer Alpen westwards, clearing LOD21/LOR7 in the south. The 3476m high Olperer was to my left.

A bit south of the Brenner I turned to a north-western course. On the south side of the 3277m high Habicht I used the strong south-eastern winds to climb above the peak. The air was very turbulent but the feeling when rising momentarily with 8m/s in close proximity of the steep rock wall was incredible. The mountaineers at the peek were stoked as well.

For the entire climb I tried to keep my airspeed at about 120km/h to maintain good manoeuvrability. Still in extreme cases the speed would drop almost instantly to 100. Having a buffer of another 20+ felt safe.

From there I headed to the Arlberg. Winds were strong and seemed to turn to a more south-west direction. Because of the strong drift I had problems finding the center of thermals. I lost a bit of altitude but then found one of the strongest thermals of the day right above Fiss. In 5min I made about 1000m elevation gain (avg. 3.3m/s with 5m/s peaks). This was the highest point of the flight (about 4000m). Also being already in the CTA Arlberg air space E rises up to almost 5000m here.

Soaring to St.Anton was a straight affair with some dolphin character.

The next eventful thermal was at the Zugspitzmassiv. The visuals were stunning and combined with the fast ascents along the steep jagged rock wall this was just pure soaring honey.

I headed a bit more north into Germany before returning to base and I was ready to land. Little did I know that the Foehn had already started in Innsbruck. It's a strong southern wind that causes strong dynamic uplift at mountains north of the landing strip.

I must have spend another hour or more playing in these winds. Flying the LS4 felt like riding a jet engine. I would fly at Va (180km/h TAS) 20km east and back and still be rising by 100m. Then I spent probably 20min doing lazy eights without loosing altitude.

The sun started setting and I eventually pulled my spoilers and landed. What an experience!? I am almost dumbfounded. I am still in shock about the beauty. I think I get why some people never stop soaring.

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German postcard by ISV, no. A 58. Photo: 20th Century Fox. Publicity still for Anastasia (Anatole Litvak, 1956).

Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) was ‘Sweden's illustrious gift to Hollywood’. In the 1940s the fresh and naturally beautiful actress won three times the Oscar, twice the Emmy, and once the Tony Award for Best Actress. Little known is that before she went to Hollywood she already had a European film career.

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West German postcard by ISV, no. A 45. Photo: 20th Century Fox. Publicity still for There's No Business Like Show Business (Walter Lang, 1954).

American actor and dancer Dan Dailey (1915-1978) was best known for his roles in several Hollywood musicals in the 1940s and 1950s.

Daniel James Dailey Jr. was born in New York in 1915. His parents were Daniel James Dailey Sr. and Helen Theresa (née Ryan) Dailey. His father ran a hotel for show people on Long Island. He was the older brother of actress Irene Dailey. Dan performed in a minstrel show in 1921 and later appeared in Vaudeville. He worked as a golf caddy and shoe salesman before he got his first good break, playing in a show on a South American cruise ship in 1934. He made his Broadway debut in 1937 in 'Babes in Arms'. He followed it with 'Stars in Your Eyes' and 'I Married an Angel'. In 1940, he signed a contract with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio, where he played supporting roles in several films credited as Dan Dailey Jr. Although the musical was his specialisation, his first film roles were in the comedy-drama Susan and God (George Cukor, 1940) starring Joan Crawford. He also played a Nazi in The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1940) starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart. Dailey was the juvenile lead in the comedy The Captain Is a Lady (George B. Sinclair, 1940) starring Charles Coburn. His breakthrough came with a role in the musical film Panama Hattie (Norman Z. McLeod, 1942). Due to its success, he acquired the lead role in For Me and My Gal (1942) opposite Judy Garland, but he was drafted by the army and eventually had to give up the role to Gene Kelly. Consequently, Dailey served for the US Army as an army officer during World War II, now credited as Dan Dailey. During his service, he acted in the Propaganda film This Is the Army (Michael Curtiz, 1943). After the end of the war, MGM did not renew his contract, which led him to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox. Their association began brilliantly with Mother Wore Tights (Walter Lang, 1947) in which Dailey supported the studio's biggest star, Betty Grable. His part was built up during filming, and the film was Fox's biggest hit of 1947, making $5 million. Dailey soon grew to become one of the film studio's big stars, mainly playing the male lead in musicals.

Dan Dailey was reunited with Betty Grable in When My Baby Smiles at Me (Walter Lang, 1948). It was Fox's biggest hit of the year and garnered Dailey an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor at the 21st Academy Awards. Dailey starred in a film for John Ford, When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950), which was a mild success at the box office. A third teaming with Grable was in My Blue Heaven (Henry Koster, 1950). Dailey co-starred with Anne Baxter in A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950), often noted as one of the first screen appearances of Marilyn Monroe, who played a dance hall girl. He made a fourth and final film with Betty Grable, Call Me Mister (1951). IMDb: "In 1951, he checked himself into the Menninger Clinic for five months and, after his return to Hollywood, presented his experiences there frankly to Hedda Hopper and other reporters, pointing out that the necessity of this break from his hectic show business career was prompted by his 'cracking up'. " Dailey made a second film with Ford, a remake of What Price Glory (1952), where he teamed with James Cagney. In 1954, Dailey signed a new seven-year contract with Fox. Another highlight of his work for Fox was his role opposite Marilyn Monroe in There's No Business Like Show Business (Walter Lang, 1954), which featured Irving Berlin's music. There's No Business Like Show Business proved to be Dailey's biggest hit in a long time. In the late 1950s, he returned to his first film studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dailey went to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to play GI-turned-advertising man Doug Hallerton in It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, 1955) alongside Gene Kelly. Dailey returned to Fox for one more musical, The Best Things in Life Are Free (Michael Curtiz, 1956), to play songwriter Ray Henderson opposite Gordon MacRae. As the popularity of the musical genre waned in the late 1950s, Dailey saw his career threatened with it as well. He made a move to television and starred in The Four Just Men (1959–1960). His later films include Pepe (1960) with Cantinflas, and Las Cuatro Noches de la Luna Llena / Four Nights of the Full Moon (Sobey Martin, 1963) with Gene Tierney and made in Spain. The latter is considered a lost film. During production, they ran out of money, and the project was shortened for television. Dailey lectured on the college circuit in later years, speaking on dance and motion, the art of acting in dance and the importance of acting to the dancer. His final film was The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Larry Cohen, 1977) starring Broderick Crawford. Dailey married his first wife, high school sweetheart Esther Rodier, in 1942. His second wife, Elizabeth Hofert, was a Los Angeles socialite with whom he had a son, Dan Jr. The couple divorced in 1951, and his son committed suicide in 1975. From 1955 to 1960, he was married to Gwen Carter O'Connor, a former actress and the ex-wife of actor Donald O'Connor. His fourth wife, Carol Warner, was a dancer. Dan Dailey broke his hip in 1977 and required surgery. He died in autumn 1978 from complications of this operation. According to an in-depth article written by Frances Ingram in the January 2001 issue of Classic Images film magazine, Dan was buried in his favourite pink hunting jacket and singer and long-time friend John Raitt sang at his funeral.

Sources: Wikipedia (English and Dutch) and IMDb.

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German postcard by ISV, no. R 32. Photo: Pierre Brice in Winnetou II. Teil / Last of the Renegades (Harald Reinl, 1964).

The German Western Winnetou – 2. Teil / Last of the Renegades (Harald Reinl, 1964), also known as Winnetou: The Red Gentleman, is one of the Eurowesterns in the series based on the novels by Karl May. Stars are Pierre Brice as Apache chief Winnetou and Lex Barker as his soul mate, Old Shatterhand.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Europe was left in ruins, and so was the European cinema, especially the German film industry. There was a strong backlash against those filmmakers who had remained faithful to the Nazi party, while many of Germany's best filmmakers had moved to America in the 1930s. In the 1950s, the German cinema struggled gradually back to form. Low budgets and, at first, a lack of international markets were the reasons that the most popular productions were the Heimat films and later also the Sissi films with Romy Schneider. Large audience figures meant that the film studios were gradually able to increase their budgets, and by the 1960s, big-scale films were back on the cards. And even some of the directors who had fled to Hollywood returned to work in Germany, including Fritz Lang. The Karl May novels were, and still are, highly popular in the German-speaking world, telling of adventurous exploits in the Wild West and the Orient. Film adaptations of the books had been made as early as the 1920s, and again in the late 1930s, and discussions had been made about shooting some of the Wild West stories - indeed, a final script for a Winnetou film was approved in 1944 by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels but never went into production. Timothy Young, in his 'Mondo Esoterica Guide to: The Karl May Westerns': "With German audiences filling cinemas, and desperately wanting more home-grown films, the Karl May themes seemed like a perfect money spinner for producer Horst Wendlandt. A key player at Rialto Film, he had successfully produced a series of adult-targeted films based on the Edgar Wallace thriller/horror novels." Wendlandt now sought to target the younger markets. His idea of shooting European Westerns was unheard of at the beginning of the 1960s - the Spaghetti Western rage started only a few years later with Sergio Leone's Per un pugno di dollari / For a fistful of Dollars (1964). Instead of using the Spanish locations of the Spaghetti Westerns, the Karl May series was shot in Yugoslavia. Films like Winnetou II. Teil (1964) took great advantage of the barren landscapes, mountains and rivers. In return, the films made Yugoslavia a popular holiday destination for many Europeans.

Horst Wendlandt's first Eurowestern was, appropriately enough, Karl May's first Old West book - Der Schatz im Silbersee / The Treasure of Silver Lake (Harald Reinl, 1962). The novel had to be altered for the screen - scenes set aboard an American paddle steamer proved too much for the budget, while the graphic details of Colonel Brinkley's savage nature had to be toned down for the family market - but it still retained the charm and feel of the original stories, and proved a massive hit with audiences across Germany. Impressively, the distinctive soundtrack proved equally popular and became a bestseller. The studio quickly commissioned a second film, and following the order of the original books, Rialto produced the prequel story Winnetou 1. Teil (1963), which told the origins of the Winnetou and Old Shatterhand characters who played the major role in Der Schatz im Silbersee / The Treasure of Silver Lake, secured actors Lex Barker and Pierre Brice in their respective roles as Old Shatterhand and Winnetou. According to Timothy Young at the Mondo Esoterica Guide, Winnetou 1. Teil / Apache Gold (Harald Reinl, 1963) proved equally popular to the first, and stands as the best in the series - boasting a rarely bettered set piece with a full-scale railway locomotive being driven through a saloon building. Winnetou II. Teil (1964) followed on, continuing the series' popularity. Again, Harald Reinl directed the sequel, and he could work with a very good script by veteran author Harald G. Petterson. Composer Martin Böttcher made a new lead theme, the Winnetou-Melodie, which became a massive hit. Lex Barker and Pierre Brice were joined by a cast of excellent actors. Karin Dor plays Winnetou's greatest love, Ribanna; British actor Anthony Steel plays Forester, a ruthless oil baron, and among his gang members is the enigmatic Klaus Kinski. Lt. Robert Merril, one of the good guys, is played by a blue-eyed Italian hunk called Mario Girotti, who would become one of the best-known Spaghetti Western stars under the alias Terence Hill. Also remarkable is the small part of Gojko Mitic as White Bird. The muscled Yugoslavian actor later became the superstar of the Eastern European Western. Finally, there is comic actor Eddi Arent as Old Shatterhand's sidekick Lord Castlepool.

Sources: Timothy Young (Mondo Esoterica Guide to: The Karl May Westerns), Wikipedia (German and English) and IMDb.

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German postcard by ISV, no. J2. Photo: Union-Film.

Pretty Gerlinde Locker (1938) is an Austrian stage, television and film actress, who appeared in many Heimatfilms and film operettas of the late 1950s and early 1960s. From 1956 on, she appeared in more than 30 Austrian and West-German films.

Gerlinde Locker was born in 1938, in Linz, Austria. She attended a school for applied arts and trained to become a weaver. However, she also studied drama school at Bruckner-Konservatorium (the Bruckner Conservatory) in Linz, and at 18, she made her stage debut at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1957, she received her first engagement at the Landestheater Linz. She made her first film appearance in the Austrian-German Heimatfilm Der Schandfleck/The eyesore (Herbert B. Fredersdorf, 1956). After this successful film debut she received a five-year contract from the Vienna production company Schönbrunn film. She played the female lead in the West German musical comedy Der Stern von Santa Clara/The Star of Santa Clara (Werner Jacobs, 1958) starring Vico Torriani. She appeared in a supporting part in the romantic comedy Schick Deine Frau nicht nach Italien/Do Not Send Your Wife to Italy (Hans Grimm, 1960) starring Marianne Hold. One of her better films was Morgens um Sieben ist die Welt noch in Ordnung/In the Morning at Seven the World Is Still in Order (Kurt Hoffmann, 1968). From 1962 on, she played at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, at the Renaissance Theater Berlin, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and other German stage venues. In 1968 and 1969 she did guest appearances at the famous Salzburger Festspielen at the side of O. W. Fischer. During the 1960s Locker also appeared in TV operettas, such as Die Fledermaus/The Bat, Die Christel von der Post, Der Vogelhändler/The Bird Seller and Das Land des Lächelns/The Land of Smiles.

During the 1970s, Gerlinde Locker kept appearing indidentally in West German comedies like Heintje – Einmal wird die Sonne wieder scheinen/Heintje: Once the Sun will shine again (Hans Heinrich, 1970) with Dutch child star Heintje, and Auch ich war nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler/I Wasn't a Very Good Student Either (Werner Jacobs, 1974). But she focused on TV work. Among her television roles is a guest appearance in the Krimi series Der Kommissar/The Police Inspector (1970-1975) and Derrick (1981-1993). She did not return to the screen until a decade later with appearances in television plays. These included her role as Liselotte von Rheinberg in the family saga Geld.Macht.Liebe/Money.Power.Love (2009) and a guest role in the Krimi series SOKO 5113 (2007-2010). She also returned to the cinema as Lady Arista in the Fantasy film Rubinrot/Ruby (Felix Fuchssteiner, 2013). From her marriage with director Kurt Wilhelm she has a son, the journalist Anatol Locker (1963). Since 1974 she is married with the actor Richard Rüdiger. Gerlinde Locker lives in Munich.

Sources: Wikipedia (German and English) and IMDb.

German postcard by ISV, no. K 18. Photo: E. Schneider.

American Singer and actor Gus Backus (1937) was at 19 a member of the Del-Vikings, and later became virtually the flesh-and-blood embodiment of rock and roll in Germany. Between 1959 and 1965 he also appeared in 25 German light entertainment films.

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This "Improvised Scanning Vehicle" is a former military low altitude scouting vehicle, repurposed by ill-equipped mining colonies for finding ores.

It can also be outfitted with wings to cover large distances more economically and to extend it's operating altitude.

German postcard by ISV, no. A 8. Photo: 20th Century Fox.

English film, television, and stage actor Michael Rennie (1909 - 1971) was best known for his starring role as the space visitor Klaatu in the science fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).

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German postcard by ISV, no. M 17. Photo: Real/Europa-Film/teampress/Weisse.

Hansjörg Felmy (1931-2007) was a German film and stage actor. The ‘charming cad’ played in some classics of the German cinema of the 1950s, and later became well known for his role as Kommissar Heinz Haferkamp in the Krimi series Tatort.

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German postcard by ISV, no. A 42. Photo: 20th Century Fox. Publicity still for The Racers (Henry Hathaway, 1955).

No, he is not dead, as People Magazine announced. Cleft-chinned and steely-eyed American superstar Kirk Douglas (1916) lives!

Kirk Douglas was born as 'the ragman's son' (the name of his 1988 autobiography) known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, in Amsterdam, New York, in 1916. His parents, Bryna (Sanglel) and Herschel Danielovitch, were Jewish immigrants from Chavusy, Mahilyow Voblast (now in Belarus). Although growing up in a poor ghetto, Douglas was a fine student and wrestled competitively during his time at St. Lawrence University. He gained entry into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, but only appeared in a handful of minor Broadway productions before joining the US Navy in 1941. In 1945, he returned to the theatre and some radio work. On the insistence of ex-classmate Lauren Bacall producer Hal B. Wallis screen-tested Douglas and cast him opposite Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone, 1946) . His performance received rave reviews and further work quickly followed, including an appearance in the Film-Noir I walk alone(Byron Haskin, 1948). It was the first time he worked alongside Burt Lancaster. They appeared in seven films together, including the dynamic western Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (John Sturges, 1957), the John Frankenheimer political thriller Seven Days in May (1964) and their final pairing in the gangster comedy Tough Guys (Jeff Kanew, 1986).

Douglas scored his first Oscar nomination playing the untrustworthy and opportunistic boxer Midge Kelly in the gripping The Champion (Mark Robson, 1949). The quality of his work continued to garner the attention of critics and he was again nominated for Oscars for his role as a film producer in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and as tortured painter Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956), both directed by Vincente Minnelli. In 1955 Douglas launched his own production company, Bryna Productions, the company behind two pivotal film roles in his career. The first was as French army officer Col. Dax in director Stanley Kubrick's brilliant anti-war epic Paths of Glory (1957). Douglas reunited with Kubrick for yet another epic, the magnificent Spartacus (1960). The film also marked a key turning point in the life of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who had been blacklisted during the McCarthy communist witchhunt in the 1950s. At Douglas' insistence Trumbo was given on-screen credit for his contributions, which began the dissolution of the infamous blacklisting policies begun almost a decade previously that had destroyed so many careers and lives.

Douglas remained busy throughout the 1960s, starring in many films. He played a rebellious modern-day cowboy in Lonely Are the Brave (David Miller, 1962), acted alongside John Wayne in the World War II story In Harm's Way (Otto Preminger, 1965), and in the tongue-in-cheek Western The War Wagon (Burt Kennedy, 1967). On stage, he starred in 1963 in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, but no Hollywood studio could be convinced to bring the story to the screen. Kirk's son Michael Douglas finally filmed the tale in 1975, starring Jack Nicholson. Into the 1970s, Douglas wasn't as busy as previous years. His films included the Western comedy The Villain (Hal Needham, 1979) with Arnold Schwarzenegger,the sci-fi thriller Saturn 3 (Stanley Donen, 1980) and the Australian Western The Man from Snowy River (George Miller, 1982). Douglas has long been involved in humanitarian causes and has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the US State Department since 1963. France honoured him with the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Despite a helicopter crash and a stroke suffered in the 1990s, he remains active and continues to appear in front of the camera.

Sources: firehouse44 (IMDb), and IMDb.

This photo was taken on an ISV volunteer project in Costa Rica.

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The Integrated Smart V™ (ISV™) solution demonstrates BAE Systems’ commitment to offer an uncompromising and highly survivable high-mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle (HMMWV) for America’s Armed Forces. The ISV solution features a lightweight monocoque V-shaped hull with front and rear frame clips that attach to the hull to provide the most rigid side- and mine-blast protection available in one affordable package.

German postcard by ISV, no. D 8. Photo: Pierluigi.

Swedish film actress, party-girl and sex symbol Anita Ekberg (1931) was nicknamed The Iceberg. Miss Sweden 1950 was contracted by Howard Hughes, had a Hollywood career in the 1950’s, 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).

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German postcard by ISV, nr. M 3. Photo: Europa Film/Grimm.

German actor Walter Giller (1927) was the cute boy next door of the German cinema of the 1950’s. With Nadja Tiller he became a Dream Couple of the German cinema.

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The Integrated Smart V™ (ISV™) solution demonstrates BAE Systems’ commitment to offer an uncompromising and highly survivable high-mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle (HMMWV) for America’s Armed Forces. The ISV solution features a lightweight monocoque V-shaped hull with front and rear frame clips that attach to the hull to provide the most rigid side- and mine-blast protection available in one affordable package.

German postcard by ISV, no. K. 27. Photo: E. Schneider.

German actor Thomas Fritsch (1944) was a teen idol of the early 1960s. The son of ‘Sunny boy’ Willy Fritsch made several entertainment films and recorded Schlager songs. He also worked for the stage and TV and later often worked as a voice actor who dubbed many blockbusters.