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  Another “first” took place in 1936: an international Jury. The festival’s prestige is consolidated through films by famed directors, such as Frank Capra (Mr Deeds goes to town), John Ford (Mary of Scotland), Max Ophüls (La tendre ennemie), René Clair (The ghost goes west), Josef von Sternberg (The king …

    Once more, the festival boasts priceless films: The traitor by John Ford, The devil is a woman by Josef von Sternberg, with Marlene Dietrich, and the winner of the best foreign film award, Anna Karenina, by Clarence Brown, with Greta Garbo, presented for the second time at the …

  In its second year, the festival already had its first scandal: during a sequence of Estasi, by Czechoslovakian director Gustav Machatý,  Hedwig Kieslerová, later known as Hedy Lamarr, appears on the big screen fully nude.  From the third festival in 1935, it becomes an annual event, due to the …

  Jerry Lewis is almost better known as a fund for muscular dystrophy than as a comic actor. Mention the pesticide Alar and people think of Meryl Streep. As the highly spokeswoman for Mothers and Others for Pesticide Limits, she created such a public stir that the manufacturers took Alar …

  Pigafetta : is the cemetery custodian, a homunculus between 50-60 years of age, but could also be 40. I imagined him to be hunched over, limping.   Thick glasses, which partly hide or highlight a diverting squint (like frogs?  Could be.).  No French actor comes to mind, note even from …