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George Bancroft
Burly, beefy and tall George Bancroft (1882-1956) was an American film and stage actor who played many ill-tempered tough guys. He received an Oscar nomination for his part as Thunderbolt Jim Lang in...
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10 Czech collectors cards of Marcello Mastroianni
A few months ago, EFSP had a post on Claudia Cardinale with a series of Czech collectors cards, which I recently had acquired. I then also found another set of Czech collectors cards published by...
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Mary Philbin
Mary Philbin (1902-1993) was an American film actress of the silent film era. She is best known for her roles in two silent horror classics: soprano Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)...
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Jacob Sisters
The Geschwister Jacob or Jacob Sisters was a group of four, later three German sisters who sang Schlager songs. The sisters were Johanna (1939-2015), Rosi (1941), Eva (1943) and Hannelore Jacob...
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Das Abenteuer der Sibylle Brant (1925)
In our continuing series of Henny Porten film specials, EFSP presents the German silent film Das Abenteuer der Sibylle Brant/The Adventures of Sybil Brent (Carl Froehlich, 1925). It was again a Henny...
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Carla Rust
Carla Rust (1908-1977) was a blonde German film actress. She appeared as a leading lady in a number of light entertainment films during the Nazi era. She was married to the actor Sepp Rist.German...
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The Dutch Diva who upset Hollywood
In our Summer series on recent film books, we have another Dutch subject. In 'Diva' Erik Brouwer tells the thrilling tale of the first and only Dutch actress with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
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Betty Bronson
Sprightly and merry Betty Bronson (1906-1971) rocketed from obscurity when she was personally selected by J.M. Barrie to star in Peter Pan (1924). It remains her most famous part, even if she also had...
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Multi-picture postcards from the Soviet Union
In May this year, I was a few days in the beautiful city Riga in Latvia (lots of wonderful Art Nouveau and wooden buildings). In the street of our hotel, there was an 'antikvariāts', which we passed by...
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Moira Shearer
Red headed Moira Shearer (1926-2006) was a luminous star of the British ballet. She became an international film idol with her unforgettable debut as the young ballerina Vicky in The Red Shoes (1948),...
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Oskar Karlweis
Oskar Karlweis (1894- 1956) was an Austrian stage and film actor, who was at the peak of his popularity in operettas and comedies in Munich, Berlin and Vienna during the 1920s. Especially with the...
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Rosen aus dem Süden (1926)
Henny Porten and Italian actor Angelo Ferrari played the lead roles in the German silent romance Rosen aus dem Süden/Roses from the South (Carl Froehlich, 1926). It was another Henny Porten-Film...
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Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce (1890-1955) was an American silent screen actress, who appeared in more than 200 films during the 1910s and 1920s. Joyce spent time with Kalem (1910–1915) and Vitagraph (1916–1921), and...
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Volker von Collande
German actor, screenwriter and film director Volker von Collande (1913-1990) appeared in more than 40 films between 1934 and 1987. A member of the Nazi Party, he usually played upstanding citizens or...
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Giovanna Ralli
Since 1942, Italian actress Giovanna Ralli (1935) appeared in more than 80 films and TV series and during her career she worked with some of the greatest directors of the Italian cinema such as...
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New acquisitions at G.D.I.: a gift from the Dutch Beatles Museum
Egbert Barten of the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute (G.D.I.) always lends us his newly acquired postcards to present them at European Film Star Postcards. This time he handed me over two albums which his...
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New acquisitions at G.D.I.: a gift from Kathinka Dittrich, Part 1
Yesterday, EFSP had a post on a collection of postcards which Egbert Barten of the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute (G.D.I.) recently acquired. G.D.I. also received another, much older album from German...
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New acquisitions at G.D.I.: a gift from Kathinka Dittrich, Part 2
Yesterday, EFSP posted on an old postcard album which Egbert Barten of the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute (G.D.I.) received from German film historian and author Kathinka Dittrich. The album contains...
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L'Occident (1928)
The French silent film L'Occident/The West (Henri Fescourt, 1928) was based on a play by Henri Kistemaeckers. He also scripted the film which is partly situated in Morocco. In the leading role Jaque...
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Giani Esposito
Giani Esposito aka Gianni Esposito (1930-1974) was a Belgian actor, singer/songwriter and poet. He appeared in 50 films between 1951 and 1973.French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 697....
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