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La course à l'amour

French postcard. Cinématographes Méric. Publicity still for the French romantic and adventurous road movie through France: La course à l'amour (Charles Keppens/ Paul Barlatier, 1924), starring Gina Relly, Edouard Mathé and Mario Guaita - Ausonia.

 

Athletic muscleman Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913) and became a major actor in the Italian forzuto genre. In the early 1920s he moved to Marseille, made a few films there and ran a cinema. Gina Relly (1891-1985) was an actress of the French silent cinema, who starred in L'empereur des pauvres (René Leprince, 1921), with Léon Mathot. Édouard Mathé (1886-1934) was an extremely popular French actor, in particular in the silent crime serials by Louis Feuillade.

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Uploaded on October 12, 2017
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