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An octopus cloak from the American silent comedy “The Affairs of Anatol” (1921), worn by the actress Bebe Daniels
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Inna Churikova (1943-2023) and Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935-2011)
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Sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac in a hotel room in Rochefort, before the filming of Jacques Demy's "The Young Girls of Rochefort"
Sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac in a hotel room in Rochefort, before the filming of Jacques Demy's "The Young Girls of Rochefort". In Françoise's hands is a front page mentioning the film about hopeful provincial youth setting off for Paris in search of
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The famous restaurant guide of Duchemin, France's most authoritative restaurant critic, in the hilarious comedy "The Wing or the Thigh" with Louis de Funès, somehow ended up in Moscow in the same display case as Stepan Veselovsky's…
The famous restaurant guide of Duchemin, France's most authoritative restaurant critic, in the hilarious comedy "The Wing or the Thigh" with Louis de Funès, somehow ended up in Moscow in the same display case as Stepan Veselovsky's reference work on persons who served under
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The Crown, and Bertel Thorvaldsen's Mercury as an Interior Decoration
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Star Wars Characters in the Style of the Napoleonic Era
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Zhenya Lukashin's house and the Church of the Archangel Michael in Troparyovo, southwest Moscow
Where on Tretya Ulitsa Stroiteley in "The Irony of Fate" is the church, apparently of the eighteenth century? Let us take this in order. Tretya Ulitsa Stroiteley (Third Builders' Street), where Zhenya Lukashin lives, is today called ulitsa Marii Ulyanovoy, lying between Leninsky Prospekt and Prospekt Vernadskogo,
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Today Gérard Depardieu Is 74
Today Gérard Depardieu is 74. This is how I remember him
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The Crystal Temple from the Yule Ball scene in the 2005 film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
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Jean Cocteau and Charlie Chaplin at the opening of the Chapelle Saint-Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer, restored by Cocteau
Jean Cocteau and Charlie Chaplin at the opening of the Chapelle Saint-Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer, restored by Cocteau. July 1957
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Jean Cocteau and Charlie Chaplin spend time on the Riviera, in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, late 1950s
Cocteau and Chaplin met in 1936, when they were returning from Japan on the same ship. Cocteau spoke no English, and Chaplin no French. Nevertheless they fell into conversation and on the very first day chattered until four in the morning, helped along by Cocteau's secretary, who knew