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Alice Cocéa
Alice Cocéa (1899-1970) was a Romanian-born French stage and screen actress, who peaked in early 1930s French cinema. The suicide of her lover caused her to retire for a while. She was the director of...
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Le mot de l'énigme (1916)
Today, EFSP has another film special with Spanish Chocolate cards from the collection of Ivo Blom. The subject is the French film Le mot de l'énigme/The Word of The Enigma (Georges Monca, 1916), a...
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Marthe Régnier
Marthe Régnier (1880-1967) was a beautiful and famous French stage actress and singer of the Belle Epoque and beyond. She launched her own perfume, designed fashion and jewelry, and was the companion...
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Andrex
Andrex (1907–1989) was a French film actor and singer. He was a close friend of the comedian Fernandel and appeared in many films alongside him.French card.French postcard by EPC (Editions et...
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Betty Compson
Betty Compson (1897-1974) was an American actress and film producer, who peaked in silent cinema and early talkies. She is best known for her performances as a suicidal prostitute rescued by a stoker...
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Five More Filmshots by Film Weekly
Today, EFSP has the second post with five series of Filmshots cards, produced as a supplement for the British magazine Film Weekly. Each series presents a Hollywood film of the early 1930s, the...
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New Acquisitions: Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Tonfilm, Part 1
In 2017, EFSP did a series of posts on collectors cards by Ross Verlag called 'Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst' (From the becoming of German film art). The cards of this series, album no. 10, contained...
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Ruggero Ruggeri
Ruggero Ruggeri (1871-1953) was one the most important Italian stage actors of the first half of the twentieth century, who often performed the plays by Pirandello. He did act in films too, both in...
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Suzy Delair (1917-2020)
Last Sunday, 15 March 2020, vivacious French actress and singer Suzy Delair (1917) passed away. She starred in many different films and was also famous in France as a singer of songs like Avec son...
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Blessée au coeur (1917)
Today, we end the film specials series with Spanish chocolate cards with a post on the silent French film, Blessée au coeur/Wounded in the heart (1917), starring Jeanne Delvair, Jean Ayme and René...
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Paul Mounet
Paul Mounet (1847–1922), born Jean-Paul Sully, was a legendary French actor of the Comédie Française. Around 1910, he acted in various Film d'Art productions, but little was known about these early...
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Al Pacino
During the 1970s, American actor Al Pacino (1940) established himself with such films as The Godfather (1972), Serpico (1973), The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975). In the...
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Guest post: Let the sun shine in!
Yes, we have a guest post at EFSP. Today the floor is for my friend, collector Carla Bosch a.k.a. Meiter. Carla: "Some time ago I told Paul I found some lovely cards in my magic attic. I was looking...
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New Acquisitions: Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Tonfilm, Part 2
Today the second post on the series 'Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Tonfilm' (From the becoming of German film art, the sound film) by Ross Verlag. The series treats the German sound film between...
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Sebastian Koch
Sebastian Koch (1962) is one of Germany s most multi-faceted and successful television and film actors. He is known for roles in the Academy Award-winning film The Lives of Others (2007), Paul...
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Lucia Bosé (1931-2020)
Yesterday, 23 March 2020, Italian actress Lucia Bosé passed away in Brieva, Spain. She died of pneumonia caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19). Bosé was famous for her films from the 1950s with a.o....
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Paname...n'est pas Paris (1927)
Paname...n'est pas Paris/Die Apachen von Paris/Apaches of Paris (Nikolai Malikoff, 1927) was a French silent crime drama, supervised by maestro Marcel L'Herbier. His protege Jaque Catelain plays a...
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Helga Piur
Helga Piur (1939), is a German actress and voice actress, who was very popular in the GDR thanks to her TV roles. She also appeared in DEFA films of the 1960s and 1970s. And she gave Brigitte Bardot...
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Henry Wilcoxon
British actor Henry Wilcoxon (1905-1984) was best known as a leading man in Cleopatra (1934) and many others of Cecil B. DeMille's films. He also served as DeMille's associate producer on his later...
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Mirror, mirror
The use of mirrors has become established in films. It developed as a device in the European silent cinema in the 1910s to distinguish the new medium from theatre and to connect film more with...
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