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Priscilla Dean
Priscilla Dean (1896-1987) was an American actress of the silent screen. Between 1912 and 1928, she appeared in some 70 silent films, and later in five sound films. She is best known for her Universal...
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Mary Poppins (1964)
In Walt Disney's musical-fantasy Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964) live-action is successfully combined with animation. The songs by the Sherman Brothers are performed by a great cast with Julie...
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Theodore Roberts
Theodore Roberts (1861–1928) was an American stage and screen actor, who is known for his many parts in films by Cecil B. DeMille and his brother William DeMille. He was often referred to as the 'Grand...
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Photo by Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. is an American entertainment conglomerate founded in 1923 and especially known for its film studio. Its name originated from the four founding Warner brothers: Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack...
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Paul Muni
Paul Muni (1895-1967) was an American stage and film actor who was nominated five times for the Academy Awards. He won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in The Story of Louis Pasteur (William...
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Mary Miles Minter
Young Mary Miles Minter (1902-1984) was an American silent screen actress. Between 1912 to 1923, she appeared in over 50 silent films. The popular, innocent looking Miles Minter was the main rival of...
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Clint Walker
Heavy set, athletic Clint Walker (1927- 2018) was an American actor and singer. In the 1950s, Walker with his broad shoulders and slim waist almost single-handedly started the Western craze on TV in...
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Wheeler & Woolsey
Wheeler & Woolsey were an American comedy double act. They performed together in slapstick comedy films for RKO from the late 1920s until Robert Woolsey's death in 1938. Curly-haired Bert Wheeler...
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The King of Kings (1927)
American silent epic The King of Kings (1927) was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It was the second in DeMille's biblical trilogy, preceded by The Ten Commandments (1923) and followed by The...
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Pauline Frederick
Pauline Frederick (1883-1938) was an American stage and film actress. Frederick made a name for herself in the theatre and had already passed thirty when she became successful in Hollywood. In the era...
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Rolf Hoppe (1930-2018)
On 14 November 2018, German stage and film actor Rolf Hoppe (1930-2018) passed away. With his huge shape and nearly bald head, Hoppe mainly played many funny characters like professors, wealthy...
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Photo by Paramount
Paramount Pictures is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company (1895) and Pathé (1896), followed by the Nordisk Film company (1906), and...
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Abbott & Costello
William 'Bud' Abbott (1895–1974) and Lou Costello (1906–1959) were an American comedy duo, that first worked together in 1935. Their work in vaudeville and on stage, radio, film and television made...
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New finds at the fair
Last Saturday, I was at the International Collector's Fair in the city of Utrecht. In the enormous halls of the Jaarbeurs full of vintage memorabilia, I went to hunt for postcards for our collection....
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Constance Talmadge
American silent film actress Constance Talmadge (1898-1973) was one of the biggest stars of the 1920s, together with her sister Norma. She had her breakthrough in a double role in D.W. Griffith's...
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Claudette Colbert
With her round apple-face, big eyes and charm, French-born Hollywood star Claudette Colbert (1903-1996) was the epitome of chic sophistication. Her comedies It Happened One Night (1934) - for which she...
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Dominique Blanchar (1937-2018)
On Monday 19 November 2018, French actress Dominique Blanchar passed away at the age of 91. The beautiful Parisienne was the daughter of the actors Pierre Blanchar and Marthe Vinot. Her career was...
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The Sign of the Cross (1932)
In Cecil B. De Mille's lavish historical epic The Sign of the Cross (1932), a Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero. The outstanding cast is...
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Billie Burke
American actress Billie Burke (1884–1970) is now best known as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in the classic musical The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939), but she had an impressive career both...
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Photo by RKO
RKO Pictures was, in its original incarnation as RKO Radio Pictures Inc., one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. It was the last of the major studios to be created and the first (and...
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