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Malìa (1917)
In the Chocolate Amattler series, EFSP presents another Italian silent film, Malìa (Alfredo De Antoni, 1917), produced by Caesar Film. The Spanish title for this film was Liliana and Liliana was played...
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Cora Laparcerie
Cora Laparcerie (1875-1951) was an actress, poetess and French theatre director. She acted in several stage tragedies set in the Antiquity or ancient mythology. She never acted in a film, but had...
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Sonja Ziemann (1926-2020)
On 17 February 2020, German film and television actress, singer and dancer Sonja Ziemann (1926) passed away at the age of 94. The delicately lovely, dark-haired and innocent-looking Ziemann was one of...
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Marguerite Clark
Marguerite Clark (1883–1940) was an American stage and silent film actress, who after a Broadway career in 1900-1913 had a prosperous film career in the 1910s, mainly at Famous Players. As a film star,...
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New acquisitions: Nos artistes dans leurs expressions
We love the Nos artistes dans leur loge series with postcards of French artists in their dressing rooms, and in the past, EFSP did two posts on the series. The publisher, the newspaper Comoedia...
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Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone (1958) is an American actress, producer, and former fashion model. With her role in Paul Verhoeven's Basic Instinct (1992), she became one of the most talked about actresses of the 1990s,...
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Sophie Desmarets
French actress Sophie Desmarets (1922-2012) played in several popular Sword and Dagger films during the late 1940s. In the following decades she played in dozens of comedies, both on stage and in...
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Il potere sovrano (1916)
Today, EFSP presnets another film special based on a series of Spanish 'Chocolate cards' from the collection of Ivo Blom. The Barcelone based company Chocolate Pi made a series of six collectors cards...
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Baby Peggy (1918-2020)
Monday 24 February 2020, one of the last superstars of the silent film era has died. Diana Serra Cary (1918), best known as Baby Peggy passed away in Gustine, California. She was one of the three major...
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Félix Mayol
Félix Mayol (1872-1941) was a popular French singer of the Belle Epoque. He became a success in Paris in 1895 as a singer performing in a campy, effeminate way. His hair tassel inspired many imitators....
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Barbara Laage
French actress Barbara Laage (1920-1988) was a popular leading lady in French and American films during the 1950s. Her breakthrough role was the prostitute Lizzie in La Putain Respectueuse/The...
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New acquisitions: Éditions Sid
Editions Sid was a French publisher that was active in the 1910s and 1920s. During the First World War, Sid was particularly active in making postcards. Their cards took the war lightly and with...
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Orlando Bloom
English actor Orlando Bloom (1977) made his breakthrough as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series and rose to fame as Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. He established...
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Dolly Grey
Dolly Grey aka Dolly Gray (1904-?) was an Italian actress of the silent screen. Her real name was Clara Galassi. Grey acted in Italian and German silent films during the second half of the 1920s. She...
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La déserteuse (1917)
In our 'Spanish Chocolate series', EFSP presents a film special on the Gaumont production La déserteuse/Déserteuse! (Louis Feuillade, 1917). Stars were Yvette Andreyor and René Cresté. Chocolate Pi...
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Jean Hervé
Jean Hervé (1884-1966) was a French stage and screen actor, known for his work at the Comédie-Française but also for his parts in Film d'Art cinema, the Rocambole films, and such classics as La Terre...
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Frans de Munck
Dutch soccer player and manager Frans de Munck (1922-2010) was also a one-time film star. In 1958, the goalkeeper was with his club DOS champion of the Netherlands. 'The Black Panter' also played for...
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Ralph Richardson
English actor Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-1983) was one of the theatrical knights of the 20th century. Though more closely associated with the theatre, he appeared over a period of 50 years in such film...
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Five Filmshots by Film Weekly
The British magazine Film Weekly published an interesting postcard series: Filmshots. Four cards with scenes of a recent film. The series must have existed between ca. 1932 and 1934 and presents known...
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Dennis Price
British actor Dennis Price (1915-1973) played in nearly 130 films and television plays. He started as a suave leading man, and later became a character star of great versatility. He is charismatic and...
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