A lot of random things get donated to thrift stores, but in February 2020 the thrift shop Opnieuw & Coin in Mortsel, Belgium was determined to solve the mystery of a photo album that caught their attention. While they likely empty out the stray photos and put the albums on their shelves for resale, this album was unlike anything that had ever seen.
Inside the large rose-covered album was photograph after photograph of a mystery lady posing with A-list Hollywood celebrities like Antonio Banderas, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis, and more, sometime in the 1990s. The employees figured the album must have been donated by mistake and took it to Facebook to try and find out who the woman was.
“We are looking for the owner of this photo book … It contains a lot of photos of a lady with all Hollywood stars. We think this may have been shared by accident and are therefore looking for the owner of this book,” they wrote on their page. They later found out the woman was Maria Snoeys-Lagler and were able to return the album to her heir. After some research people learned that Snoeys-Lageler was a former member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The HFPA is a non-profit organization of journalists and photographers who report on the entertainment industry; you might hear the name in association with Golden Globe Awards. Snoeys-Lagler was a Hollywood reporter who died in 2016 at the age of 87. Her daughter in California received the album. Take a look at the photos below and reminisce on 90’s Hollywood.
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Tom Cruise |
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Kevin Bacon & Tom Hanks |
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Kate Winslet |
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Michael Douglas |
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Jean-Claude Van Damme |
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Jack Nicholson |
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Andy Garcia |
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Jack Lemmon & Sophia Loren |
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Sam Neill & Robert Downey Jr. |
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Bruce Willis |
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Richard Dreyfuss |
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Kristin Davis |
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Angelina Jolie |
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Patrick Stewart |
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Drew Barrymore |
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Laurence Fishburn |
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Ed Harris |
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Keanu Reeves |
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Tom Selleck |
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Kevin Costner |
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Tim Roth |
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Heather Locklear |
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Antonio Banderas |
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Harrison Ford |
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Johnny Depp |
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Kevin Costner |
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Hugh Grant |
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Rutger Hauer |
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William Shatner |
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Nicholas Cage |
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Meg Ryan & Andy Garcia |
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Kirk Douglas |
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Luke Perry |
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Samuel L. Jackson |
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Liam Neeson |
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Faye Dunaway |
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Stephen Spielberg |
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Walter Matthau |
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Tommy Lee Jones |
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Gérard Depardieu |
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Anthony Hopkins |
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Julia Roberts |
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Johnny Depp & Juliette Lewis |
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Andrew Shue |
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Denzel Washington |
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Cary Elwes |
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Kevin Dillon |
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Danny Glover |
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Nicole Kidman & Michael Keaton |
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Meg Ryan |
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Laurence Fishburn |
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Michelle Pfeiffer & Dennis Haysbert |
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Will Smith |
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Mary McDonnell |
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Gary Oldman & Winona Ryder |
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Jonathan Pryce |
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Andy Garcia |
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Helen Hunt |
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Robert Duvall |
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Christopher Walken |
But how did it end up in Belgium?
ReplyDeleteMaybe she’s Belgian?
DeleteThat is amazing!
ReplyDeleteIsn’t that Matt Dillon? (Not Kevin?)
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