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Franca Bettoia
Italian actress Franca Bettoia (1936) passed away on 13 September 2024. She starred in several Italian films of the 1950s and 1960s. Bettoia is best known for the chilling Sci-Fi/Horror tale and cult...
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House of the Flying Daggers (2004)
Zhang Yimou conceived the story of the Chinese film Shi mian mai fu/House of the Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang, 2004) in the late 1990s as a companion to his action film Ying xiong/Hero (Zhang Yimou,...
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Happy birthday, Catherine Deneuve!
Today it's the 81h birthday of elegant Catherine Deneuve (1943). She is an icon of French cinema who has graced the screen for more than six decades. She gained recognition in the 1960s for her...
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Ross Verlag, Part 7: How Ross Expanded
Around 1930, Ross seemed to be everywhere. Not only in Germany but also in many other European countries, film fans bought Ross star postcards to send them to their friends and their family or to...
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Madeleine Roch
Madeleine Roch (1883–1930) was a famous French 'tragédienne' from the Comédie Française. Between 1909 and 1911, she acted in a series of 11 Film d'Art-like historical films mostly at Pathé Frères but...
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Erich Ponto
Erich Ponto (1884-1957) was a German film and stage actor. He became known as J.J. Peachum in Brecht’s ‘Dreigroschenoper ‘(Three Penny Opera). From the 1930s, he played supporting and leading parts in...
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Franco Interlenghi
Italian actor Franco Interlenghi (1930-2015) was a popular leading man during the 1950s and worked with major directors like De Sica, Fellini, Antonioni, Bolognini and Rossellini. Although Interlenghi...
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Jane Greer
American film and television actress Jane Greer (1924-2001) started her career as a model and a big band singer. Throughout her career, she starred in 28 films and 17 TV series. Greer is best known for...
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Jackie Brown (1997)
Is Jackie Brown (1997) Quentin Tarantino’s most underrated film? It’s less showy than Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill (2003-2004) and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood` (2019), Jackie Brown brings the...
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La Collectionneuse: Edwina Booth
Trader Horn (1931) made Edwina Booth famous. Unfortunately, it also marked the beginning of a nightmare for the young actress, whose health was seriously impaired because of tropical ailments she...
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Ross Verlag, Part 8: Ross Verlag in Colour
One of the earliest series by Ross Verlag - or Verlag "Ross" as then still was written on the postcards - is Series 2001: twelve postcards with colour portraits printed on a white paper. The material...
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Gustav von Wangenheim
Gustav von Wangenheim (1895-1975), was a German actor and director. He is mainly remembered for his role as Thomas Hutter in F.W. Murnau's silent masterpiece Nosferatu (1922). He also had major parts...
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Anne Vernon
French film and television actress Anne Vernon (1924) appeared in 40 films between 1948 and 1970. She has made films in France, England, Italy, the United States, Germany, Austria, and Spain. She...
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Louis Jourdan
Dashingly handsome French actor Louis Jourdan (1921-2015) played lead roles in several Hollywood films in which he often was typecast as the elegant European lover. He is best known for the nine...
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Monica Lewis
Monica Lewis (1922-2015) was an American jazz singer and film actress. Her films include such MGM entertainment films as The Strip (951), Everything I Have Is Yours (1952), and Affair with a Stranger...
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The Secret of the Submarine (1916)
Ivo Blom collected this large series of Spanish minicards, made for the lost American serial The Secret of the Submarine (1916). The director of this silent serial was George L. Sargent and the star...
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Janine Darcey
French actress Janine Darcey (1917-1993) was known for such films as Entrée des artistes (1938), French Without Tears (1940) and the classic Film Noir Du rififi chez les hommes (1955). She was married...
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Ross Verlag, Part 9: W.J. Mörlins
In this post in the Ross Verlag Tribute, EFSP presents film star postcards which were distributed by Ross Verlag but published by Verlag W.J. Mörlins. This German publisher located in Berlin operated...
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30 Opera stars in the cinema
Throughout the years, opera has been implemented in cinema in many ways. Since 2006, major opera companies such as The Metropolitan Opera in New York, The Royal Opera in London, and La Scala in Milan...
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Stanley Holloway
British theatre and film actor Stanley Holloway (1890-1982) was known for his comic monologues and songs. He appeared in classic Ealing comedies like The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Titfield...
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Geneviève Grad (1944-2024)
Yesterday, 8 November 2024, French actress Geneviève Grad (1944-2024) passed away. She was best known as the daughter of Louis de Funès in the first three films of the Gendarme of Saint-Tropez series....
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Joan Leslie
American actress Joan Leslie (1925-2015) starred in over 30 films. Her breakout role came at the age of 15 when she appeared as the crippled girl Velma in High Sierra (1941) with Humphrey Bogart. In...
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De landsflyktiga (1921)
One of the lost films of the Scandinavian silent cinema is the Swedish film De landsflyktiga/The Emigrants (1921), except for a few very short fragments. It was directed by the great Mauritz Stiller...
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Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich (1975) is an American actress, supermodel and musician of Serbian and Russian descent. She is best known for her roles in Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element (1997) and The Messenger: The...
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Ross Verlag, Part 10: Das Programm Von Heute
In our Ross Verlag tribute, we focus today on an unnumbered series of Ross postcards that say 'Das Programm von Heute' (The Program for Today) on the back and sometimes the front. These postcards were...
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