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Richard Berry
Richard Berry (1950) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in nearly 100 films since 1972. French postcard by Editions Humour à la Carte, Paris, no. ST-62. French postcard...
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André Roanne
André Roanne (1896-1959) had a long-standing career in French cinema with more than 90 films. He started as a kid actor in short silent films in 1914, and ended with the part of the commissioner in...
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Kathleen Turner
American actress Kathleen Turner (1954) made her film debut as a femme fatale in the thriller Body Heat (1981), which gave her a reputation as a sex symbol. She became one of Hollywood's most...
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Hedwiga Reicher
Hedwiga Reicher (1884-1971) was a German-born stage and screen actress. She was best known for her role as Salomé in Oscar Wilde's play. In 1906, she moved to New York, where she performed on Broadway....
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Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield (1922-2008) was an English film and stage actor best known for A Man for All Seasons (1966). Though he only appeared in around 30 films, Scofield has cast a giant shadow in the world of...
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John Hodiak
John Hodiak (1914–1955) was an American actor who appeared in films, theatre, and on the radio. He had his breakthrough in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944). From then on, he often played leading...
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Films Selectos (Part 3)
Spain in the era before the dictatorship of General Franco is an interesting goldmine for film memorabilia. We can't get enough of the beautiful leaflets from the early 1930s, published as an appendix...
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Eva Marie Saint (1924-2026)
On 6 October, American actress Eva Marie Saint (1924–2026) died in Los Angeles. She is best known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting...
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Liselotte Pulver
Swiss actress Liselotte Pulver (1929) was one of the most beloved stars of the German popular cinema of the 1950s and early 1960s. Despite a wide variety of roles, she is best remembered as the merry...
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Gay Portraits
'Gay Portraits, A Book of Postcards' (1990) contained 30 black-and-white postcards of outstanding men and women who have made important contributions to literature, music, dance, theatre and politics....
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Directed by Robert Wiene
Ivo Blom is in Italy to attend the 45th edition of 'Le Giornate del Cinema Muto' in Pordenone. One of the programme sections of this silent film festival is 'Weimar Uncensored'. One of the films is...
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Weimar Uncensored
One of the fascinating sections at the Podenone Silent Film Festival, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2026, is Weimar Uncensored. Very popular in Germany and Austria during the late 1910s and the early...
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Augusto Mastripietri
This year, as part of his Museum of Dreamworlds project, EFSP collaborator Ivo Blom and his team present two programmes of shorts at the Giornate del Cinema Muto. They show unique prints from the BFI...
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The Art of the Benshi
One the sections of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2026 is dedicated to the mesmerising artistry of Japan’s celebrated benshi. These movie orators have, since the days of the first film screenings by the...
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Ancient Greece in early cinema
Ivo Blom is in Pordenone, Italy, for the Museum of Dreamworlds project. At the Giornate del Cinema Muto, he and his Dreamworlds colleagues will present two programmes with unique prints from the BFI...
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Albert Rueprecht (1929-2026)
On 3 October 2026, Austrian actor Albert Rueprecht (1929) passed away in Baden, Austria. He was a member of the Burgtheater and Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. The blond actor made over 50 feature...
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L'arzigogolo (1924)
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto is the world’s leading international silent film festival. From 4 to 11 July 2025, EFSP contributor Ivo Blom is in Pordenone in Northern Italy to attend the 44th edition of...
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Directed by Marshall Neilan
In the early days of silent pictures, Marshall Neilan (1891-1958) was a top director for Goldwyn Pictures. He started his career as an actor. He also directed a small number of Louis B. Mayer's...
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Mary Astor
Today starts the world’s leading international silent-film festival, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy. The 45th edition opens with a classic Swashbuckler, Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925),...
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What's On
A year ago, on 2 October 2025, European Film Star Postcards passed the magical milestone of 10 million page views. At the same time, EFSP also set a new record of 267,964 page views in a single month,...
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