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Henny Porten and Bruno Decarli in Das Maskenfest des Lebens

German postcard by Rotophot in the Film-Sterne series, no. 541/7. Photo: Messter-Film. Henny Porten in the German silent drama Das Maskenfest des Lebens (Rudolf Biebrach, 1918).

 

Sturdy and blond Henny Porten (1890-1960) was one of Germany's most important and popular film actresses of the silent cinema. She became the quintessence of German womanhood, ladylike yet kindhearted and a not a little petit bourgeois. She was also the producer of many of her own films.

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Uploaded on March 25, 2018