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Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland (1916) is a Japanese-born British-American former actress, whose career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films, and was one of the leading stars during the...
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Tugboat Annie (1933)
In Tugboat Annie (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933), Marie Dressler features as the 'old sea cow' Annie Brennan, the tugboat captain of the title. Dressler gives a funny and touching performance. The film became one...
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The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934) was the first English-language film for Vienna-born Elisabeth Bergner. The historical film was directed by Bergner's husband Paul Czinner and - uncredited - by...
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Richard Lund
Richard Lund (1885–1960) was a Swedish film and theatre actor, who had a prolific career in the films of Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller. He starred in such Swedish silent films as Herr Arnes...
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Renée Björling
Renée Björling (1888-1975) was a Swedish film and stage actress, who peaked in the Swedish silent cinema. Later she also played small parts in Ingmar Bergman's films and also in his stage plays.Swedish...
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Photo by Svenska Biografteatern
AB Svenska Biografteatern, also called Svenska Bio, was a film company operating between 1907 and 1919. During the 1910s, Svenska Bio became internationally recognised with films directed by the former...
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Bruno Ganz (1941-2019)
Yesterday, 15 January 2019, Swiss actor Bruno Ganz passed away. Ganz established himself in Germany, first as co-founder of the Schaubuhne Theatre company, then as a romantic lead in films....
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John Gilbert
American actor, screenwriter and director John Gilbert (1899-1936) rose to fame during the silent film era and became a popular leading man known as 'The Great Lover'.German postcard by Ross Verlag,...
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Grand Hotel (1932)
Grand Hotel (1932) was an all-star drama, directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Irving Thalberg for M.G.M. William A. Drake wrote the screenplay based on his own play Grand Hotel (1930) which in...
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Titanic (1997)
Against expectations, the romantic epic and disaster film Titanic (1997), directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron, became the highest-grossing film in the world and won 11 Oscars,...
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Das Glück der Frau Beate (1918)
Little is known about the German silent film Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918). The title figure was played by Ressel Orla, whose career peaked at the...
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Der Weg, der zur Verdammnis führt, I. Das Schicksal der Änne Wolter (1918)
Yesterday, EFSP had a post on Otto Rippert's Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (1918). Today, another film by Rippert from 1918, Der Weg, der zur Verdammnis führt, I. Das Schicksal...
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Photo by Skandia Film
The success of the pioneering Swedish film studio Svenska Biografteatern AB during and after the First World War inspired others. Skandia Film in Stockholm was the most successful competitor. Like...
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The Monkees: Peter Tork (1942-2019)
Last Thursday, 21 February 2019, Peter Halsten Thorkelson (1942-2019), better known as Peter Tork, passed away. Tork was an American musician, composer and actor, best known as the keyboardist and bass...
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Gus Backus (1937-2019)
On 21 February 2019, American Singer and actor Gus Backus (1937-2019) passed away. At 19, he was a member of the Del-Vikings, the first notable Doo-Wop group with both black and white members which had...
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The Tragic Tale of Pippi's Parrot Rosalinda
On 23 February 2019, the red parrot who played Rosalinda in the classic Pippi Longstocking film Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven/Pippi in the South Seas (Olle Hellbom, 1970) has died. Remember how...
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Chelo Alonso (1933-2019)
Again, we have to announce that one of our film stars has passed away. Today, we learned that former Cuban actress, dancer and sex-symbol Chelo Alonso has died on 20 February 2019. Alonso was a star of...
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William Farnum
American actor William Farnum (1876-1953) was one of the first major movie stars. Nationally acknowledged as a great tragedian on stage in his youth and middle age, Farnum drew ovations for his...
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Il piccolo patriota padovano (1915)
In 1915-1916, the Italian company Gloria Film made a series of nine short silent films based on the stories in the book 'Cuore' (Heart) by Edmondo De Amicis. Earlier we did posts on six of the films:...
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Photo by Svensk Filmindustri
Svensk Filmindustri of simply SF, based in Stockholm, is the largest film studio in Sweden and is one of the oldest studios in the world. SF was established on 27 December 1919, and produced classic...
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