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Richard Barthelmess
American actor Richard Barthelmess (1895-1963) is best known for his roles in the films of D.W. Griffith. In 1928, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for two films: The Patent...
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Harry Belafonte
Singer, actor, composer, author, and producer Harry Belafonte (1927) is one of the most successful African-American artists in history. In 1954, he became the first Black performer to receive a Tony...
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Luke Perry (1966-2019)
American producer, director, writer, film and TV actor Luke Perry died on 4 March 2019 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, California, from complications of a stroke he suffered last week. Luke had a...
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Mouschy (1918)
German actress, writer and producer Hedda Vernon starred in more than 60 films of the early silent period. During the 1910s she was such a popular film star that she got her own Hedda-Vernon serial....
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Valor civile (1916)
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. Last Friday, we did a post on the seventh...
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International Women's Day: Women Film Pioneers, Part 1: USA
It's 8 March and International Women's Day. For us, it is a day that celebrates womanhood and women's rights. One of our favourite sites is Women Pioneers Film Project, an incredible treasure of...
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Photo by Nordisk
Nordisk Films Kompagni or Nordisk Film is a Danish film company, established in 1906 by filmmaker Ole Olsen. It is the fourth oldest film studio in the world behind the Gaumont Film Company, Pathé, and...
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Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (1911-1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian and musician. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes and tongue-twisting songs. Kaye starred in 17...
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Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson (1896-1975) was an angelic Swedish actress, who peaked in the Swedish cinema of the 1910s and early 1920s and also in German silent films of the later 1920s. Her most well-known parts were...
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Soava Gallone
Polish actress Soava Gallone (1880-1957) was directed in one silent film after another by her husband, Carmine Gallone. From the mid-1910s onwards, she appeared in more than 40 films between 1913 and...
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Mae Murray
American actress and dancer Mae Murray (1885-1965) was a strikingly exotic beauty with frizzy blonde hair. She had her breakthrough on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Follies. Her film debut was in To Have...
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Die verwunschene Prinzessin (1919)
Eva May played the leading role in the German silent film Die verwunschene Prinzessin/The Enchanted Princess (1919), directed and produced by Erik Lund and scripted by Ruth Goetz. Among the cast were...
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L'infermiere di Tata (1916)
L'infermiere di Tata/The nurse of Tata (Leopoldo Carlucci, 1916) is the final of the nine short silent films, which the Italian company Film Artistica Gloria produced, based on the nine stories in...
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Photo by Messter-Film
Oskar Messter was the 'Father of the German Film Industry'. This film pioneer founded his production company Messter-Film in the early years of cinema. The main star of the studio was Henny Porten, who...
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Lana Turner
Blonde and voluptuous Lana Turner (1921-1995) was one of the most glamorous superstars of Hollywood's golden era. In the mid-1940s, she was one of the highest-paid women in the United States, and one...
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Colleen Moore
American actress Colleen Moore (1899-1988) was a star of the silent screen who appeared in about 100 films beginning in 1917. During the 1920s, she put her stamp on American social history, creating in...
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Pratertraum (1924)
Pratertraum/Prater. Die Erlebnisse zweier Nähmädchen (Peter Paul Felner, 1924) is one of the typical melodramas in which Henny Porten starred during the 1920s. It is partly situated in the Prater, an...
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Line Renaud
Line Renaud (1928), is a French singer, stage and screen actress, and AIDS activist. In 1946 Renaud started acting in film and still does so. Her singing skills were often at the heart of her roles....
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Harold Lloyd
American actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer Harold Lloyd (1893-1971) is best known for his silent comedies. He ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as...
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Cary Grant
Handsome, suave English-American actor Cary Grant (1904-1986) became one of Hollywood's definitive classic leading men, known for his debonair demeanour. Grant’s best-known films include Bringing Up...
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