Film and TV stars and their bikes!

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It’s the battle of the two Marcels in a still from the 1947 French drama, Les jeux sont fais (English title: The Chips Are Down). Pagliero, the Italian actor/writer/director, also known as Marcello Pagliero, plays a Resistance leader in this afterlife fantasy set during something very much akin to Nazi occupation.

Mouloudji plays his best friend, who betrays — and slays– him. Both ride bikes. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the screenplay.

 

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Marion Davies

 

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Marion Davies, star of 1930’s The Floradora Girl — “a story of the Gay Nineties,” per the poster’s tag-line — pedals a tandem along with character actor George Chandler. Davies stars as a chorus girl in the romance, released by MGM with a two-minute-long Technicolor musical sequence, “Tell Me Pretty Maiden,” at the finale

 

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You can watch the clip here:

 

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Terence Hill

 

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Terence Hill, playing an effete Brit with a new-fangled mode of transportation, shows off his bike to a trio of cowpokes: Gregory Walcott, Dominic Barto and Harry Carey. The spaghetti western in question is 'Man of the East' (original title: E poi lo chiamarono il magnifico), released in 1974 by United Artists.

 

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Lukas Hass

 

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Lukas Haas rides a bike, playing a kid who is dealing with poverty, hunger and his parents’ breakup in 1988’s NBC Family Special, 'A Place at the Table'.

Jenny Lewis, later of Rilo Kiley fame, co-stars as wide-eyed Haas’ character’s friend. Haas continues to ride, of course; in the mid-aughts paparazzi captured Haas and pal Leonardo DiCaprio cycling around New York on CitiBikes.

 

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Lianelli Carell, The Bicycle Thieves

 

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In a still from Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves (or The Bicycle Thief, as it was released in the U.S.), Lianella Carell and Lamberto Maggiorani, playing a struggling couple in post-WWII Rome, try out the new bike that’s going to bring Maggiorani’s Antonio loads of work. It's still much vaunted as a film school study of poverty and use of film techniques which were in vogue in the 1950s.

Sadly, the bike is stolen, and doom and despair ensue.