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Christiane Hörbiger
Christiane Hörbiger (1938) is an Austrian television and film actress, born into a well-known actors family. Since 1955, she made a name for herself on stage and television and in several films.German...
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Le chemineau (1905)
Among Pathé Frères's filmmakers, Albert Capellani was one of the main pioneers, who developed and systematised several techniques of representation which set the standard in the narrative cinema. One...
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Horst Caspar
German actor Horst Caspar (1913-1952) was prominent in German theatre, radio and a few films in the 1930s and 1940s. His postwar career was cut short by his sudden death at 39.German postcard by Ross...
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Photo by Nicola Perscheid
German photographer Nicola Perscheid (1864-1930) is primarily known for his artistic portrait photography. He developed the 'Perscheid lens', a soft focus lens for large format portrait photography....
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Gilberte Savary
French child actress Gilberte Savary (1921-1992) appeared in six films such as Le rêve (1931), La ronde des heures (1931) and Les Miserables (1934).French postcard in the Nos Artistes series. Caption:...
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Frida Gombaszögi
Frida Gombaszögi (1890–1961) was the first Hungarian actress who represented the modern acting style in plays by Molnar, Chekhov and Gorky. During her long and impressive career, she also appeared in...
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Käthe Gold
Austrian actress Käthe Gold (1907–1997) was a successful theatre actress who worked in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Her stage career prevented her from appearing in many films, although she did a...
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Frank Lawton
English actor Frank Lawton (1904-1969) was a handsome leading men in British and American films of the 1930s. Later he became a popular character performer, best remembered as Bruce Ismay in the...
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Dvije sirotice (1919)
Dvije sirote/Dvije sirotice/The Two Orphans is a silent film, made in the former Kingdom of Serbs, Croatians and Slovenes, now Croatia. The film, directed by Alfred Grinhut a.k.a. Alfred Grünhut, was...
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Arnold Rieck
German humorist, couplet singer and actor Arnold Rieck (1876-1924) was a forerunner of the stand-up comedians of today. He was also one of the first stage actors who started to perform in films.German...
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Photo by Dührkoop
Rudolf Dührkoop (1848-1918) was a famous German portrait photographer. He also made artistic photographs in the style of Pictorialism. After his death his studio was taken over by his daughter Minya....
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Edna Best
Ladylike British actress Edna Best (1900-1974) entered films in 1921. She is best remembered as the mother in the original version of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and as the...
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Elisabeth Bergner
The profoundly sensitive acting of Austrian-British actress Elisabeth Bergner (1897-1986) influenced the German cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. 'Die Bergner' as she was known in Germany, specialised in...
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Jean Gabin
French actor and war hero Jean Gabin (1904-1976) was one of the greatest stars of the European cinema. In the 1930s he became the personification of the tragic romantic hero of the poetic realist film....
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My Fair Lady (1964)
Today, EFSP starts two months of posts with European postcards for Hollywood film stars and/or films. Thursday is the day for the film specials, and our first movie is special! My Fair Lady (George...
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Charles Farrell
Good-looking American actor Charles Farrell (1900-1990) was a Hollywood matinee idol of the Jazz Age and Depression era. Now, he seems forgotten, but between 1927 and 1934, he was a very popular team...
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Photo by Freulich
Polish-born photographer Roman Freulich (1898–1974) was a pioneer in the Hollywood film industry, who worked for Universal and later for Republic. He made countless popular glamour shots of the stars...
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Gloria Grahame
American stage, film, television actress and singer Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) was often cast in Film Noirs as a tarnished beauty with an irresistible sexual allure. She received an Oscar for Best...
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American Vedettes, Part 1
Before World War I, the European film industry ruled the world. The war destroyed the French studios and Hollywood started its victory in the international cinemas. And audiences all over the world...
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American Vedettes, Part 2
On 28 October 2017, EFSP published our first selection from the French series Les Vedettes de Cinéma. The series was published in the 1920s by A.N. (Armand Noyer), located at Boulevard de Strasbourg in...
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