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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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Wanda Hawley
Wanda Hawley (1895-1963) was an American silent film actress and singer. She began film work in 1917 and appeared in more than 80 films over the next 15 years. Hawley rose to stardom in films by Cecil...
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Frank Villard
Moustachioed French actor Frank Villard (1917-1980) was a popular, 'rogue' seducer in French films of the late 1940s and 1950s. He also acted in Italian and Spanish films. French postcard by Editions...
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Maria Jacobini
According to the late film historian Vittorio Martinelli, Maria Jacobini (1892-1944) was an island of serenity among the Italian divas. Jacobini was the personification of goodness, of simple love. Her...
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Johnny Mack Brown
Johnny Mack Brown (1904-1974) was an American actor and American football player. The good-looking Brown became a fairly successful leading man at MGM for nearly five years, appearing opposite such...
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Familjens traditioner (1920)
Gösta Ekman and Mary Johnson starred in the silent Swedish tragicomedy Familjens traditioner/Family Traditions (1920). The film was directed by Rune Carlsten for Svensk Filmindustri (SF) and was...
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Senta Berger
Beautiful Austrian actress Senta Berger (1941) received many awards for her work in theatre, film and television, including a Golden Globe Award and a Goldene Kamera. She played in several European...
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Ross Verlag, Part 11: Foreign in the UK
Ross Verlag published a series of postcards for Great Britain without the Ross Verlag name on the cards. Instead, the cards had the word 'Foreign' in one corner of the photo on the card. These were all...
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Directed by Amleto Palermi
Italian film director and screenwriter Amleto Palermi (1889-1941) directed more than 70 films in Italy and Germany between 1914 and 1942. He directed diva Pina Menichelli in several silent films....
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Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves (1964) is a Canadian actor, producer, director and musician. Though Reeves often faced criticism for his deadpan delivery and perceived limited range as an actor, he nonetheless took on...
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Buster Keaton
Stone-faced Buster Keaton (1895-1966) was one of the three greatest comedians of Silent Hollywood. His enduring classics such as Our Hospitality (1923), The Navigator (1924), Sherlock Jr. (1924),...
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Gordon MacRae
With his handsome boy-next-door looks, deep baritone, and glorious smile, Gordon MacRae (1920-1986) was successful as a singer and musical actor. He was best known for five films with Doris Day and his...
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Blondie Johnson (1933)
Sexy, wisecracking blonde Joan Blondell starred in the pre-code gangster film Blondie Johnson (Ray Enright, 1933). Her co-stars were 'tough guy' Chester Morris with his chiselled jaw and Earle Foxe,...
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La Collectionneuse: Gertrude Olmsted
Gertrude Olmsted never quite reached the first rank of Hollywood silent film stars. Nevertheless, she was in high demand in the 1920s and was featured in about sixty films. After ten years of intense...
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Ross Verlag, Part 12: Edition Ross
Last week EFSP did a post on the the Foreign Series by Ross Verlag with tinted postcards aimed at the British market. In total, Ross produced three postcard series presumably for distribution solely in...
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