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Elke Arendt
German actress and author Elke Arendt (1939) became known for her impersonation of the fairy tale character Snow White in Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge/Snowwhite and the Seven Dwarfs (1955). Her...
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Ross Verlag, Part 18: Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Stumme Film (2)
We continue our Ross Verlag Tribute with a second post on the collector card series Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst which Ross Verlag produced for the 'Cigaretten-Bilderdienst', Altona-Bahrenfeld in...
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Lawrence Gray
Today starts the Netherlands Silent Film Festival in the City of Eindhoven. From Thursday 16 January to Sunday 19 January 2025, the NSFF programmes as varied an offer as possible with musical...
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Directed by John Ford
On the second day of the Netherlands Silent Film Festival, we salute John Ford (1894-1973), one of the most respected directors in American cinema. Along with D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, Ford...
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Marion Davies
On the third day of the Netherlands Silent Film Festival, we want to see Lights of Old Broadway (Monta Bell, 1925). Marion Davies (1897-1961) plays a double role as twins who are separated as babies...
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The Kid (1921)
It's the fourth and final day of the Nederlands Silent Film Festival (NSFF). On the programme this afternoon is The Kid (1921), one of the greatest films of the silent era. The comedy-drama was...
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Jackie Lane
Austrian-born starlet Jackie Lane (1937) was a stunningly beautiful model and film actress of the 1950s and 1960s, who starred both in European films and in Hollywood pictures. She was married to...
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David Lynch (1946-2025)
On 15 January, American filmmaker David Lynch (1946-2025) passed away in Los Angeles. He was the figurehead of American surrealist cinema and won several awards for his films and television series Twin...
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Ross Verlag, Part 19: Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Stumme Film (3)
In the early 1920s, the Weimar Republic faced numerous problems, including hyperinflation and political extremism. But the German film industry thrived and seemed to produce an endless stream of silent...
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The People
Around 1950, the British newspaper The People issued a series of black and white film star postcards. The cards were published by Show Parade Picture Service in London. Most of the stars were British...
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Liberty (1916)
Action heroin Marie Walcamp and Eddie Polo were the stars of the first Western serial, Liberty (1916). The American 'chapterplay' was released in 20 episodes by Universal. It was directed by Jacques...
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Millie Perkins
Millie Perkins (1936 or 1938) is an American actress and model. She is known for her debut film role as Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), and for her supporting actress roles in the...
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Louis Jouvet
Louis Jouvet (1887-1951) was one of the most influential personalities of the 20th century theatre. He is almost forgotten now, but Jouvet used to be a living glory of the French stage. He made a huge...
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Lisa Lesco
German actress and singer Lisa Lesco (1915-2003) was a popular stage performer and also appeared in a few German films from the 1930s till the 1950s. She appeared in successful operettas in Berlin...
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La Collectionneuse: Barbara La Marr
Beautiful Barbara La Marr was one of the most famous vamps of the 1920s but she usually played such roles in a less heavy-handed and more multidimensional way than audiences were accustomed to. As one...
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Ross Verlag, Part 20: Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Stumme Film (4)
Women are central in the fourth post on our (incomplete) series of collectors cards of 'Von Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Stumme Film'. Ross Verlag published this collector card series for the...
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Fotoarchief Film en Toneel
'Film en Toneel' (Film and Stage) was a Dutch fortnightly magazine that existed from 1948 to 1953. Originally the name was 'Film en Theater' (Film and Theatre). The magazine was founded in 1945 and in...
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Il re, le torri e gli alfieri (1917)
Il re, le torri e gli alfieri/The King, the Towers and the Bishops (1917) by Ivo Illuminati and Lucio D'Ambra, is a lost film. The Italian production by Medusa Film was released in France as Echéc au...
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Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025)
On 30 January 2025, British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull (1946) died in London. She started her career in the 1960s with sweet, melancholy folk-pop. Her personal life was turbulent and years...
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Addio giovinezza! (1918)
Augusto Genina's silent film Addio giovinezza!/Goodbye Youth (1918) was adapted from the 1911 play of the same name by Nino Oxilia and Sandro Camasio, The film is set in Turin at the beginning of the...
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Horst Janson (1935-2025)
On 25 January 2025, Horst Janson (1935) died from complications of an earlier stroke. He was 89. Janson was one of Germany’s most popular film and television actors of the 1970s. He had his...
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Jon Voight
American actor Jon Voight (1938) became a star playing the street hustler Joe Buck in the groundbreaking film Midnight Cowboy (1969). He had a successful career taking on challenging leading and...
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Ross Verlag, Part 21: Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Stumme Film (5)
In 2025, EFSP will continue its grand Ross Verlag Tribute. In the fifth post on 'Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Stumme Film', we focus on the Weimar studios like the glass house of the pioneering...
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Bruni Löbel
German actress Bruni Löbel (1920-2006) was briefly a leading lady in Ufa films and later appeared in three American productions. She achieved lasting popularity on TV as 'Oma' Herta in the long-running...
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Ala-Arriba! (1942)
Finally, EFSP had a post on a Portuguese film. Ala - Arriba! (1942) is a Portuguese ethno-fictional fishermen drama by José Leitão de Barros. The film was scripted by Alfredo Cortez, and produced by...
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