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A rare find: an album with Pathé cards from 1911
Tonight starts Europe’s biggest vintage event, the VerzamelaarsJaarbeurs, the International Collectors Fair in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Tomorrow we will visit the fair in the massive Jaarbeurs halls,...
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Photo by Tobis
Tobis Film was a major German film production and distribution company. Founded in 1927 as a merger of several companies involved in the switch from silent to sound films, the organisation emerged as...
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Anna Lee
Blue-eyed blonde Anna Lee (1913-2004) was a British-born American actress. She started her career in British films and earned the title 'Queen of the Quota Quickies'. In 1939, she moved to Hollywood...
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17 finds at the VerzamelaarsJaarbeurs
Maybe you wondered what we found last Saturday at the VerzamelaarsJaarbeurs, the International Collectors Fair in Utrecht, the Netherlands? And yes, we found some rare or interesting film star...
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Bibi Andersson (1935-2019)
Swedish film actress Bibi Andersson died on Sunday 14 April 2019 at the age of 83. She is best known for her 13 films with director Ingmar Bergman.Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 53....
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Die blaue Laterne (1918)
At the end of the First World War, Henny Porten appeared as a tragic dancer in the drama Die blaue Laterne/The Blue Lantern (Rudolf Biebrach, 1918), based on the novel by Paul Lindau. The film was...
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David and Bathsheba (1951)
In the Technicolor Biblical epic David and Bathsheba (Henry King, 1951), Gregory Peck plays King David of Israel, who sees the beautiful Bathsheba (Susan Hayward) bathing from the palace roof. She is...
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Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) was an indomitable American stage and film actress, known as a spirited performer with a touch of eccentricity. She introduced into her roles a strength of character...
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Photo by Terra
Terra Film was a Berlin-based film production company. Founded in 1919, Terra became one of the four Germany's largest film production companies in the 1930s under the Nazi regime.German postcard by...
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Easter special: La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (1907)
Happy Easter! Films on the Passion of Christ, starting with the Annunciation and ending with the Resurrection, were extremely popular in the early years of cinema. No doubt the impetus was given by the...
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17 more finds at the VerzamelaarsJaarbeurs
Last Monday I did a post at EFSP about my own finds at the VerzamelaarsJaarbeurs, the International Collectors Fair in Utrecht, on 13 April. Today 17 more postcards, which my partner in crime, Ivo Blom...
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Violantha (1927)
Henny Porten played the title role as a simple and natural mountain girl in the German silent drama Violantha (Carl Froehlich, 1927), which is situated in the Swiss Alps. Again Henny's happiness is in...
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Dama sa crnom krinkom (1918)
Last year, film historian Ivo Blom did an interesting find, a series of sepia postcards of three lost, silent films from the former Kingdom of Serbs, Croatians and Slovenes, now Croatia. The films were...
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Dick Rivers
Yesterday, French singer and actor Dick Rivers (1945-2019) passed away. With Eddy Mitchell and Johnny Hallyday, he was one of the three stars who introduced Rock and Roll in France in the early 1960s....
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Hannelore Elsner (1942-2019)
Earlier this week, on 21 April 2019, grand German actress Hannelore Elsner (1942-2019) died from cancer. Elsner started her film career in quickly forgotten light entertainment films, but in later...
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Elina Bystritskaya (1928-2019)
Actress Elina Bystritskaya (1928-2019) was one of the most beautiful women of the Soviet cinema. She is best known for her role of Axinia in the epic film trilogy of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel Tikhiy...
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Photo by Bavaria Filmkunst
100 years ago Bavaria Film in Munich was founded. The German studio is still one of Europe's largest film production companies, with some 30 subsidiaries. Many famous, international films were made...
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Ellen Schwiers (1930-2019)
Last Friday, 26 April 2019, German film and stage actress Ellen Schwiers passed away at the age of 88. The versatile actress often appeared as the dark, passionate woman, enmeshed in her own sensuality...
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The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
Hungarian actress Maria Corda played Helen of Troy in the American silent film The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927) with Ricardo Cortez as Paris. Husband Alexander Korda directed them, parodying...
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Thomas Graals bästa film (1917)
The Swedish silent comedy Thomas Graals bästa film/Thomas Graal's Best Film (Mauritz Stiller, 1917), scripted by Gustav Molander (as Harald B. Harald), deals with a screenwriter who falls in love with...
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