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This is a black and white photo of the Italian film director and actor, Vittorio De Sica, arriving at the Savoy cinema, escorted by an entourage of seven men dressed in evening suits. The group include the festival director Dermot Breen at the far…

This is a black and white photo of the Italian film director and actor Vittorio De Sica stepping out of a car at Kent train station in Cork. The photo notes that he is accompanied by Ken Rives and the festival director Dermot Breen. A third man,…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor, Dawn Addams, and a companion, arriving at the Savoy Cinema on Patrick Street, Cork in 1957. They are surrounded by a large crowd that extends back as far as the limestone façade of the Cash &…

This is a black and white photo of the British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha standing with a group of colleagues including festival director Dermot Breen. The group of seven, dressed in travel attire, pose genially for the camera in front of the…

This is a black and white photo, marked 1956, of a Rank Organisation trip to Cobh, County Cork. The photo shows a small group of film festival visitors, dressed in daywear, both seated and standing on the deck of a boat. In the background, we can…

This is a 1956 black and white photo of Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox, DBE, known professionally as the English stage and film actor Anna Neagle (1904-1986). She is seen walking along the platform of the Cork-Kent train station in conversation with…

This is a black and white photo of the popular French film actor Barbara Laage (1920-1988) in a rural scene, riding on a cart being pulled by a white donkey. Laage, with her short wavy blond hair tied back in a light-coloured headscarf, is wearing a…

This is a black and white photo of the art deco façade of the Cork Savoy cinema on Patrick Street, advertising the 1959 festival. Flags of the participating countries adorn the building in a daytime street scene. A group of boys on the left of the…

This is a black and white photo of the popular French actor Barbara Laage (1920-1988) aboard a small boat which the photo notes is moored on the River Lee in Cork. Laage stands on the deck of the boat, leaning over the bow with her hands on the…

This is a black and white photo of the German actor Eva-Ingeborg Scholz standing on the deck of a small wooden boat with an unidentified companion who crouches below her on the right of the picture. Scholz, with barefeet, is wearing a dark jumper and…