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Was Rex Ingram a visionary filmmaker or a dangerous maverick?
After a hickup last Thursday, we continue our Summer series on more or less recent film books. In 'Rex Ingram - Visionary director of the Silent Screen' (2014), Irish scholar Ruth Barton explores the...
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Chocolates and postcards
Ivo Blom, who celebrates his birthday today, likes to collect the sepia postcards by Belgian cacao and chocolate firm Kivou, based in Vilvoorde. Belgium is the country of the chocolateries and many of...
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Nancy Holloway (1932-2019)
On Wednesday 28 August, American singer and actress Nancy Holloway (1932-2019) passed away. She sang jazz, pop and soul and was popular during the 1960s in France, where she continued to perform and...
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Joan Blondell
American actress Joan Blondell (1906–1979) performed in more than 100 films and on television for five decades. With her blonde hair, big blue eyes and her big smile, Joan was usually cast as the...
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A passionate love doomed to fail
In the last post in our summer series on recent film books, EFSP has another Dutch curiosity. A novel about a legendary diva of the international opera houses who had vowed never to marry, who meets a...
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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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William Russell
Willam Russell (1884-1929) was an American popular actor of the silent screen who died already at age 44 in 1929.French postcard by Editions Cinémagazine, no. 92.Biograph, Thanhouser, MutualWilliam...
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Mare Nostrum (1926)
Alice Terry and 'Latin Lover' Antonio Moreno were the stars of Rex Ingram's Mata Hari-like drama Mare Nostrum/Our Sea (1926) based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. It is the story of a female...
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Queenie Thomas
British actress Queenie Thomas (1898–1977) appeared in dozens of silent British films. She often worked with writer-producer-director Bertram Phillips.British postcard in the series Screen Plays....
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A passionate love doomed to fail
In the last post in our summer series on recent film books, EFSP has another Dutch curiosity. A novel about a legendary diva of the international opera houses who had vowed never to marry, who meets a...
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Charles Bickford
Charles Bickford (1891-1967) was an American character actor of gruff voice and appearance. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette...
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The Collecciones Amatller Series
For already more than 200 years, Amatller chocolates are produced in the Spanish city of Barcelona. Since 1797, Chocolate Amatller has used a great variety of advertising messages. In 1972, Chocolate...
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Carol Lynley (1942-2019)
Blond, blue-eyed American actress Carol Lynley, who starred in the The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and numerous other films, has died. She was 77. The actress, who had an attractively feline appeal,...
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Jadwiga Smosarska
Jadwiga Smosarska (1898-1971) was the biggest star of the Polish cinema of the pre-WWII era. From 1919 on, the Polish actress made more than 25 silent and sound films. She also was very successful on...
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Thora van Deken (1920)
In the first half of the 20th century Pauline Brunius (1881-1954) was the grand old lady of the Swedish theatre. In the late 1910s and early 1920s, she also focused on film directing and film acting....
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Armand Mestral
French actor and singer Armand Mestral (1917-2000) started his film career after the Second World War. At first he often played bad guys and later he played character roles both in the cinema and on...
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Dezső Kertész
Dezső Kertész (1890-1965) was a Hungarian stage and screen actor and theatre director. He acted in some 7 silent Hungarian films in the 1910s and returned to the set in the early sound era and the war...
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Massimo Girotti
Handsome, manly Italian actor Massimo Girotti (1918-2003) had a career that spanned seven decades. He is best remembered for three roles: the young wanderer Gino in Luchino Visconti's Ossessione...
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New acquisitions: sepia postcards by Cinémagazine
Ivo Blom recently bought a series of sepia postcards of silent film stars published by Editions Cinémagazine in Paris. Cinémagazine-Edition or just CE was the publisher of the film magazine of the same...
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Carmel Myers
Carmel Myers (1899-1980) was a famous American actress of the silent screen. Her most memorable role was as the seductive Egyptian courtesan Iras in the super-production Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ...
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