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42nd Street (1933)
During the early 1930s, the British magazine Film Weekly produced dozens of four card sets on popular films. Today a film special with a Film Weekly set for the classic film musical 42nd Street (Lloyd...
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Photo by Vitagraph
Vitagraph, also known as the American Vitagraph Company, was a pioneering film studio, active during the silent era. It was founded in 1897 in Brooklyn by two British immigrants, J. Stuart Blackton and...
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La signora di tutti (1934)
Isa Miranda (1905–1982) was the only international film star produced by the Italian fascist cinema. Her breakthrough film was the drama La signora di tutti/Everybody's Woman (1934), the sole Italian...
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Fridericus Rex (1922-1923)
Fridericus Rex (Arzén von Cserépy, 1922-1923) was a series of four biographical films with Otto Gebühr as the eighteenth century monarch Friedrich II (Frederic II). It started the Prussian films cycle,...
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Die Mühle von Sanssouci (1926)
Otto Gebühr played again King Friedrich II (Frederick the Great) in the German silent film Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926). The film was...
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Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci (1930)
In the German early sound film Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930), Otto Gebühr returned as King Frederick the Great (Friedrich II) of Prussia -...
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Bismarck, 1. Teil (1925)
In the biopic Bismarck, Teil. 1/Bismarck (Ernst Wendt, 1925), Franz Ludwig appeared as the famous German politician Otto von Bismarck, while his son Ralph Ludwig played Bismarck as a boy. Bismarck is...
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Bismarck 1862-1898 (1926)
One of the most prominet Prussian films was the Bismarck-Film project on Otto von Bismarck, prime minister of Prussia (1862–73, 1873–90) and founder and first chancellor (1871–90) of the German Empire....
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Photo by Universal Pictures, Part 1
Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or Universal) is one of Hollywood's ‘Big Six’ films studios, and now owned by Comcast. Founded in 1912, it is the world's fifth oldest after Gaumont,...
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Photo by Universal Pictures, Part 2
Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or Universal) is one of Hollywood's ‘Big Six’ films studios. In two posts we tell the story of Universal and its stars. Today, part 2. What happened...
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Une grande fille toute simple (1948)
Une grande fille toute simple/Just a Big Simple Girl (Jacques Manuel, 1948) is a French romantic comedy in which the line between artifice and reality is blurred. Beautiful Madeleine Sologne played the...
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Fiskebyn (1920)
Lars Hanson and Karin Molander played the leading roles in the Swedish silent rural drama Fiskebyn/The Fishing Village (Mauritz Stiller, 1920). In the films of Mauritz Stiller, Molander became a symbol...
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Klostret i Sendomir (1920)
In the Swedish silent film Klostret i Sendomir/The Monastery of Sendomir (Victor Sjöström, 1920), two weary travellers come upon a monastery. While staying the night, they learn of its mysterious...
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Anna Q. Nilsson
Blonde and beautiful Anna Q. Nilsson (1888-1974) was a Swedish-American actress, who peaked in the silent era. Photoplay magazine named her 'the ideal American girl' in 1919. She became one of the...
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Mario Lanza
Talented, temperamental and tragic Mario Lanza (1921–1959) was an American tenor, actor and Hollywood film star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. His masterpiece was The Great Caruso (Richard Thorpe,...
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Photo by Ambrosio
The following weeks we will interrupt the weekly series on Hollywood studios at EFSP with some posts on pioneering Italian studios. The Società Ambrosio & C., or simply Ambrosio-Film, was founded...
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Nancy Carroll
Red-haired, cupid-bow-mouthed Nancy Carroll (1903-1965) became a very popular Hollywood star upon the advent of sound film because of her singing and dancing abilities. She was reported to have...
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Laya Raki (1927-2018)
Yesterday, Marlene Pilaete infomed us that exotic dancer and film actress Laya Raki has passed away on 21 December 2018. During the 1950s, she was a popular sex symbol in Germany. Raki appeared in...
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Beatrice Cenci (1941)
Today, we present a set of 10 postcards for the Italian period piece Beatrice Cenci (Guido Brignone, 1941), with German star Carola Höhn as the title character and Giulio Donadio as her brutal father....
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Muriel Pavlow (1921-2019
Charming, delicate Muriel Pavlow (1921) was the quintessential English girl of many British films of the 1950’s. She was usually cast as an unselfish bride, wife or girlfriend in thrillers and war...
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