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Angelo, Budapest, 1918
In 1918, the Hungarian silent cinema was at its best. An amazing amount of talent in Budapest was producing one film after another. Among them were the directors Alexander Korda and Michael Curtiz, and...
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Jacqueline Logan
Jacqueline Logan (1901-1983) was a beautiful auburn-haired, green-eyed star of the silent screen. Her most famous part is Mary Magdalene in The King of Kings (1927) by Cecil B. DeMille.French postcard...
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Éva Ruttkay
Éva Ruttkay (1927-1986) was one of the greatest Hungarian actresses of the 20th Century. She appeared in more than 60 films and TV films in over six decades.Czech collector's card by Pressfoto, Praha...
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Frühlingsstürme im Herbste des Lebens (1918)
Fern Andra (1893-1974) was the star of Frühlingsstürme im Herbste des Lebens/Spring Storms in the Autumn of Life (1918), a silent German drama set in the world of nobility. The film was also directed...
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Ila Lóth
Ila Lóth (1900-1975) was the most popular Hungarian actress of the silent screen. She starred in films by the Star Film Company and the Corvin Film Factory, and her co-star in these films was often...
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Rutger Hauer (1944-2019): our hero is dead
Last Friday, 19 July 2019, Rutger Hauer has passed away at his home in Beetsterzwaag, following a short illness. The blonde, blue-eyed, tall and handsome Dutch actor played everything - from romantic...
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Isak Thorsen's The Rise and Fall of the Polar Bear
Every Thursday this summer, EFSP post on a film book. Last month, at the Il Cinema Ritrovato Book Fair in Bologna, I found 'Nordisk Films Kompagni 1906-1924: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Bear'. It...
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A gift by Didier Hanson: collectors cards by Helmstedter Margarinewerk
A week ago we received a letter from Spain. Our friend, collector Didier Hanson sent us a gift, a series of black and white German collectors cards from the 1950s. They were published by Helmstedter...
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Aileen Pringle
Aileen Pringle (1895-1989) was an American film actress of mainly the silent screen. In 1920 she started her film career at Paramount and moved to Goldwyn in 1923. Her biggest hit was Three Weeks (Alan...
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Rosemary Clooney
American singer and actress Rosemary Clooney (1928-2002) is best know for her role in White Christmas (1954) and her big hit 'Come On A My House' in 1951. Other hit songs were 'Botch-a-Me' (1952),...
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Der Rosenkavalier (1925)
French actors Huguette Duflos and Jaque Catelain, and German actors Paul Hartmann and Michael Bohnen played the leads in the Austrian silent film Der Rosenkavalier/The Knight of the Rose (Robert Wiene,...
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Martha Vickers
Lovely, auburn-haired American actress Martha Vickers (1925-1971) began her career as a model and cover girl. She is best known as Lauren Bacall's wild, thumb-sucking sister in the classic Film Noir...
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The man who demolished the Hollywood blacklist
Every Thursday this summer, EFSP will post on a film book. On vacation in Italy, I read an interesting book on 'The Hollywood Ten', the screenwriters and directors, who in 1947, were charged by the...
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Stephen Boyd
Handsome British actor Stephen Boyd (1931-1977) preferred to play character parts, but he had the looks of a leading man. Boyd appeared in some 60 films, most notably as the villainous Messala in...
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A Film Calendar of 1930
At the last VerzamelaarsJaarbeurs, the International Collectors Fair in Utrecht, we found a curiosity. Pages of a Dutch film calendar, from ca. 1930, with some unusual stars. When we bought the pages,...
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Danièle Parola
Danièle Parola (1905-1998) was a French film actress, who starred in the crime film Stupéfiants/Narcotics (1932). Between 1928 and 1937, she appeared in some 20 films. German postcard by Ross Verlag,...
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Leatrice Joy
Leatrice Joy (1893-1985) was an American actress of the silent screen, who started her film career opposite Mary Pickford. She became one of director Cecil B. DeMille's favourites and protegees.British...
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Auf Befehl der Pompadour (1924)
Lya Mara was the star and her partner Friedrich a.k.a. Frederic Zelnik the director of the German silent film Auf Befehl der Pompadour/By Order of Pompadour (1924), situated in the France of the...
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Laura Solari
Laura Solari (1913–1984) was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 30 films between 1936 and 1969. During the early 1940s, she was busy at the Cinecittà studios in Rome and starred in sophisticated...
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How it all began for Rutger Hauer and Paul Verhoeven
Every Thursday this summer, EFSP posts on a film book. This time we have a curiosity: Floris, a Dutch book by Jaap Kooimans about a legendary Dutch TV series. Floris (1969) was the screen debut of...
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