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Pollyanna (1920)
Pollyanna (1920) is an American silent film directed by Paul Powell and starring 'America's sweetheart', Mary Pickford. After her father's death, orphan Pollyanna has to live in an ill-tempered town...
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Nancy Kwan
Chinese-American actress Nancy Kwan (1939) played a pivotal role in the acceptance of actors of Asian ancestry in major Hollywood film roles. She is best known for her debut as a free-spirited Hong...
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Zarah Leander
Glamorous, mysterious diva Zarah Leander (1907-1981) was a Swedish actress and singer, who is now best remembered for her German songs and films from the late 1930s and early 1940s. With her...
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Ross Verlag, Part 28: Künstler im Film
A small part of our European film star postcard collection is formed by vintage cigarette cards - small, colourful treasures from the past. During the 1930s, Ross-Verlag in Berlin produced several...
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Alice Brady
American stage and screen actress Alice Brady (1892–1939) began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. Her typical film role was a wealthy, rather flighty society...
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La Collectionneuse: Louise Fazenda
From 1913 to 1939, Louise Fazenda was featured in about 260 shorts and features. She notably was one of Mack Sennett’s most famous comedy queens during the silent period. A devout Christian, she...
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Hubert von Meyerinck
Complete with a waxed moustache and monocle, bald, straight-backed German actor Hubert von Meyerinck (1896-1971) looked every inch a poster boy for Prussian militarism. After his debut in Berlin in...
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Sparrows (1926)
Sparrows (William Beaudine, 1926) is one of Mary Pickford's most unexpected films and her only Gothic melodrama. As Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, she must rescue the...
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Rudy Hirigoyen
Rudy Hirigoyen (1919-2000) was a handsome French, Bask tenor, who was a famous Operetta singer in the 1940s and 1950s and a competitor of Luis Mariano. He starred in three French films, the musical...
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Richard Chamberlain (1934-2025)
On 29 March 2025, American actor Richard Chamberlain (1934) passed away. The impeccably handsome Chamberlain was TV's leading heartthrob because of his title role in Dr. Kildare (1961-1966). He turned...
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Ross Verlag, Part 29: Bunte Filmbilder
Ross Verlag published several series of cigarette cards, which were much smaller than the famous Ross postcards. These cards (app. 7 x 5,5 cm or 28 x 22, 5 inches) were sold in packs or cartons of...
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Julius Caesar
Today starts the workshop Museum of Dream Worlds at Eye Collection Centre in Amsterdam. One of the themes is Julius Caesar, as represented in the early films Julius Caesar (Vitagraph, 1908), Giulio...
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Nero on stage and in film
In film history, the Roman Emperor Nero has often been presented as the most evil one of them all, and as the Antichrist who started the persecutions of the Christians after the Great Fire of Rome....
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Val Kilmer (1959-2025)
On 1 April 2025 Val Kilmer (1959) died of pneumonia in Los Angeles. The American actor was known for such blockbusters as Top Gun (1986), Batman Forever (1995) and Heat (1995). His chameleon-like...
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Astérix & Obélix contre César (1999)
French comic book hero Astérix by Alberto Uderzo and René Goscinny has become a major film franchise, both in animated and live-action form. Most notable is the feature Astérix & Obélix contre...
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Anna Maria Sandri
Exotic-looking Italian actress Anna-Maria Sandri (1935) appeared in European films of the 1950s. After four years in films, she married an American and retired. West German postcard by Rüdel-Verlag,...
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Marisol
Marisol (1948) was a Spanish child star of the 1960s. When she became an adult she became a popular actress and singer under her real name, Pepa Flores. Spanish postcard by Ediciones Tarjefher, no....
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Films selectos
Spain in the era before the dictatorship of General Franco is an interesting goldmine for film memorabilia. We love this beautiful collection of leaflets from the early 1930s, published as an appendix...
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Burt Lancaster
Fame came to Burt Lancaster (1913-1994) with his first film role, as the doomed Swede in Universal's The Killers (1946), but the former circus acrobat knew better than to leave his career in other...
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Hertha von Walther
Hertha von Walther (1903-1987) was a German and stage actress, known for such classic German films as Die freudlose Gasse / The Joyless Street (1925), Spione / Spies (1928) and M - Eine Stadt sucht...
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Marcel Dalio
French actor Marcel Dalio (1900-1983) or simply Dalio was a citizen of the world. During the 1930s, he became a much sought-after character actor in France. His lovely animated face with its great...
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Atlantis (1913)
The classic Danish silent film Atlantis (1913) was directed by August Blom for Nordisk. The monumental film was based on the 1912 novel by famous German author Gerhart Hauptmann about a doctor who...
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Britt Ekland
Swedish actress Britt Ekland (1942) became famous through her marriage to Peter Sellers and her relationship with singer Rod Stewart. The platinum blonde was also known for her roles in more than 40...
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15 more cards from G.D.I.
In our monthly post on the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute (GDI), we chose 15 postcards from a big album from the estate of film historians Tjitte de Vries and Ati Mul. It's an album which they probably...
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Photo by Apeda
Apeda was a photography studio in New York City. It was founded in 1906 by Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Sr. (1876–1951) and Henry Obstfield. From its start Apeda pursued two business strategies: shooting...
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