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New Amit Benyovits acquisition: Clovis Star Chocolate Cards
In 2012, collector Amit Benyovits started our love for Massilia collectors cards. Last week he sent me scans of a new acquisition, a series of 50 'Premium' collectors cards from Belgium. The cards were...
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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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Struensee / Die Liebe einer Königin (1923)
The German silent film Struensee/Die Liebe einer Königin (Ludwig Wolff, 1923) deals with the historical affair between the German court physician Johann Friedrich Struensee and the Swedish Queen...
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Sascha Hehn
German actor and he-man Sascha Hehn (1954) participated in many feature films including a dozen sexploitation films. He is best known for two long-running TV shows, but he also acted on stage and...
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Photo by Frieda Riess
Lately, there has been a revival of interest in photographer Frieda Riess (1890-ca. 1955), who had a studio in central Berlin. In Germany, a biography was published and in 1908, the Berlinische Galerie...
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Yoko Tani
Porcelain pretty Yoko Tani (1928–1999) was a French-born Japanese actress and also a sensual nightclub entertainer. She appeared in many French films, but also played starring roles in Japanese,...
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Rolf Weih
Rolf Weih (1906–1969) was a German film actor, who played supporting parts in many comedies and musicals of the 1930s and 1940s. After the war he appeared in numerous Heimat-films in...
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New acquisition: postcards of the pre-war Polish cinema
Recently Ivo Blom acquired a series of Polish postcards of Polish films and stars of the late 1920s and early 1930s. We knew very little of this cinema and its stars, although EFSP did some earlier...
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Grit Hegesa
Grit Hegesa (1891–1972) was a German dancer and silent film actress. She appeared in seventeen films, including Ewald André Dupont's crime film Whitechapel (1920).German postcard by Ross Verlag, no....
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Le tournoi dans la cité (1928)
Le tournoi dans la cité/The Tournament (1928) was one of the last silent films of director Jean Renoir. The lavish historical film was scripted by Henry Dupuis-Mazuel. Sets were designed by Robert...
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Jacques Dutronc
With his nonchalant playboy image and his legendary irony, singer and actor Jacques Dutronc (1943) is one of the most popular performers in the French-speaking world. He wrote successful songs for his...
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Photo by Autrey
Max Munn Autrey (1891-1971) was an American photographer who worked in Hollywood during the 1920s and 1930s. He portrayed many of the Fox stars. Autrey was also the uncredited still photographer on...
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Alain Delon
Okay, the pageview teller of European Film Star Postcards passed the 5,000,000, but what does it mean? For us, it's a good excuse to update the five most popular posts of all times and to thank you for...
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5 million pageviews for EFSP - Aïché Nana
Yesterday, 11 August 2018, the pageview teller of European Film Star Postcards passed the 5,000,000. In the upcoming days, we'll update our five most popular posts of all times to commemorate this...
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5 million pageviews for EFSP - Claudia Cardinale
On 11 August 2018, the pageview teller of European Film Star Postcards passed the 5,000,000. We commemorate this milestone with updates of our five most popular posts of all times. Today number 4, the...
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5 million pageviews for EFSP - Bud Spencer
On 11 August 2018, the pageview teller of European Film Star Postcards passed the 5,000,000. We commemorate this milestone with updates of our five most popular posts of all times. Today we update...
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5 million pageviews for EFSP - Marina Vlady
The pageview teller of European Film Star Postcards passed the 5,000,000 on 11 August 2018. We commemorate this milestone with updates of our five most popular posts of all times. Today number 2,...
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5 million pageviews for EFSP - Alain Delon
The pageview teller of European Film Star Postcards passed the 5,000,000, and today we repost the most popular page ever. The Alain Delon page, which we updated most recently on 3 July 2015 and counted...
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Na semi vetrakh (1962)
In the early 1960s, the East-German film distributor VEB Progress Film-Verleih published some series of big cards for East-European films. Earlier we did a post on the French-Czechoslovakian...
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Photo by Félix
In the early 1910s, Edition Pathé Frères published many postcards of the studio's stars. Among them were Stacia Napierkowska, Robinne and Berthe Bovy. And the biggest star of them all was the...
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