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Directed by Reinhold Schünzel
German actor, producer, scriptwriter and director Reinhold Schünzel (1888-1953) was for a long period one of the most underrated filmmakers of Weimar Germany. He started his successful film career...
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Jill St. John
Voluptuous, red-haired American actress Jill St. John (1940) played countless bikini sexpot roles in Hollywood films of the 1960s. She was at her best as the tantalizing Bond girl Tiffany Case in...
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Postcards from Rommy's godmother
Recently, Ivo Blom said goodbye as a lecturer at the Free University. One of the presents was a cigar box full of old postcards from his good friend, Rommy Albers, head of the Dutch film department at...
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Ellen ten Damme
Ellen ten Damme (1967) is a Dutch actress, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She appeared in numerous Dutch and German television series and films. As a singer, Ten Damme performs as a solo...
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La croisiére noire (1926)
La croisière noire / The Black Journey (1926) is a French expedition film by Léon Poirier. The expedition was one of the publicity missions sponsored by André Citroën, with support from the Société...
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Ida Rubinstein
Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960) was a Russian-Ukrainian ballerina of the Ballets Russes, choreographer, actress and Maecenas from the Belle Epoque. After Rubinstein left the Ballets Russes, she founded her...
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Theo Lingen
German-Austrian comedian, director and author Theo Lingen (1903-1978) enjoyed for decades huge popularity as the devoted servant or bureaucratic dignitary in films. From 1933 on, the nasally-voiced...
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Directed by Ewald André Dupont
German film director Ewald André Dupont (1891-1956) was an influential critic and newspaper columnist before he beccame one of the pioneers of the German silent film. After several successes in...
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15 postcards from GDI: Hollywood stars of the 1930s
In our monthly post on the postcard collection of Geoffrey Donaldson Institute (GDI), we chose again 15 postcards from a big album from the estate of film historians Tjitte de Vries and Ati Mul. It's...
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Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis (1955) is an American actor, producer and singer known for his wisecracking and hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Thanks to blockbusters as Die Hard (1988), Pulp...
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Nathalie Baye
French film, television, and stage actress Nathalie Baye (1948) began her career in 1970 and has appeared in more than 80 films. She has won more than ten acting awards, including the Volpi Cup at the...
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Il richiamo (1921)
Diva Maria Jacobini, Lido Manetti and Carlo Benetti starred in the Italian silent film Il richiamo / The Call from the Past (1921), directed by Gennaro Righelli. The script by Luciano Doria was based...
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Jack Pickford
Jack Pickford (1896-1933) was a Canadian-born American actor, film director, and producer. He was the younger brother of Mary Pickford. While Jack also appeared in numerous films as the 'all-American...
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Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) was Italy's favourite leading man of the second half of the 20th century. In his long and prolific career, he almost singlehandedly defined the contemporary type of...
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Directed by Allan Dwan
American film director, producer and screenwriter Allan Dwan (1885-1981) directed more than 400 short and feature films over 50 years. Along with Cecil B. DeMille, Dwan was one of the few directors who...
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Farrah Fawcett
American actress Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009) became known as Jill Munroe in the television series Charlie's Angels (1976-1981). In the 1970s, she was considered a sex symbol. Later, her reputation as a...
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Jean Galland
Jean Galland (1897-1967) was a French actor who was known for such early sound films as Fantômas (1932) and Le jugement de minuit (1933). After the war, he played supporting parts in classics by Jean...
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Penelope Cruz
Spanish film star Penelope Cruz (1974) was the second Spanish performer to win an Oscar for her role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). However, she is best known for her many acclaimed films with...
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Photo by Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts (1952-2002) was an American photographer and director known for his photographs of actors, models, and other celebrities throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His work concentrated on black and...
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Sonja Sutter
German film actress Sonja Sutter (1931–2017) was one of the few actors who was allowed to appear in productions in both East and West Germany. She is remembered for DEFA films like Lissy (1957), her...
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Ivo's new aquisitions
Lately, Ivo Bloim acquired a few hundred postcards from the early 20th Century. He made a selection for this post and explained why he bought the cards. French postcard by Ed. Le Deley, Paris. Photo:...
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Directed by Otto Rippert
German film director Otto Rippert (1869-1940) was one of the pioneers of German silent cinema who celebrated great commercial and artistic success. His six-part Science-Fiction serial, Homunculus...
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Natalie Portman
Israeli-American actress, director and film producer Natalie Portman (1981) got her first role in the action thriller Léon / The Professional (1994) as Jean Reno's co-star. The big success came when...
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Leo Slezak
Leo Slezak (1873-1946) was an Austrian dramatic tenor. He was associated in particular with Austrian opera as well as the title role in Verdi's 'Otello'. In 1932, he started a second career as a...
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La Collectionneuse: Virginia Bruce
Dreamy-eyed beauty Virginia Bruce had her first big break in the mid-1930s. From then on, she was featured in about forty films until the mid-1940s, but didn’t reach the highest echelon of movie stars....
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