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New Acquisitions: Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Tonfilm: Part 3
Last weekend, we started the series 'Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Tonfilm' (From the becoming of German film art, the sound film) by Ross Verlag. This interesting series of collectors cards...
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Jerry Lewis
Legendary American comedian, actor and director Jerry Lewis (1926-2017) scored in just about every branch of show business: nightclubs, radio, television, concerts, films and records. Lewis rose to...
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Gli ultimi zar (1928)
Bartolomeo Pagano aka Maciste starred in the late Italian silent film Gli ultimi zar/The Last Tsars (Baldassarre Negroni, 1928). It was the penultimate film of the legendary strongman and also of his...
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Françoise Brion
French film and stage actress Françoise Brion (1933) has appeared in 75 films since 1957. She worked with Nouvelle Vague directors like her husband Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Pierre Kast and Alain...
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Nicole Heesters
Austrian actress Nicole Heesters (1937) is the daughter of Dutch-born film star Johannes Heesters. With a rich film and stage career, she stepped out of the shadow of her famous father. As a film...
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Mara Corday
American actress Mara Corday (1930) was also a popular showgirl, model and Playboy Playmate of the 1950s. She starred in the cult classic Tarantula (1955) and many other B-pictures. Corday later...
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What we've found lately
Lately, we bought a lot of interesting postcards and collectors cards. They are quite different from each other. So for today a very diverse post at EFSP with 30 cards we recently acquired. Hope you...
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New Acquisitions: Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Tonfilm: Part 4
Today the final part of the series 'Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst - Der Tonfilm' (From the becoming of German film art, the sound film) by Ross Verlag. The collectors cards treat the German sound film...
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Elissa Landi
Austrian born actress and writer Elissa Landi (1904–1948) was (falsely) rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria. During the 1920s, she appeared in British, French, and German...
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RIP: Honor Blackman (1925-2020)
Yesterday, 6 April 2020, British actress Honor Blackman (1925-2020) passed away at the age of 94. She was best known for playing the Bond girl Pussy Galore opposite Sean Connery in Goldfinger (1964)....
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Figaro (1929)
Famous dancer Ernst (Edmond) Van Duren, Arlette Marchal, Marie Bell, and the Romanian actor Genica Missirio played the lead roles in late silent French film Figaro (Gaston Ravel, 1929), It is an...
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Colonna Romano
French stage actress (Gabrielle) Colonna Romano (1883-1981) was a pupil of Sarah Bernhardt and a famous tragedienne of the Comédie-Française from 1913 till 1936. She also appeared in Film d'Art shorts...
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Mariella Lotti
Blonde Italian film actress Mariella Lotti (1921–2006) played leading ladies in a number of Fascist-era and post-war films. The refined beauty quickly became one of the most popular Italian divas of...
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New acquisitions: American leading ladies of the early silent cinema
Lately, we acquired this series of 11 American postcards with painted portraits of early silent film actresses. The series was published by the Kline Poster Co. Inc. of Philadelphia and must have been...
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Raquel Torres
Raquel Torres (1908-1987) was a Mexican-born American film actress. She had her breakthrough as a Polynesian beauty in White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). She played island girls, biracial beauties...
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Happy Easter with the stars!
Dear friends, we wish you all Happy Easter!British postcard by Rotary Photo in the Rotary Photographic Series, no. 956 A.English singer and actress Phyllis Dare (1890-1975) was famous for her...
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The kingdom of shadows
Shadows are the essence of cinema. After attending the screening of the Lumière brothers’ films at a Russian fair in July 1896, the writer Maxim Gorky wrote: “Last night I was in the kingdom of...
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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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Monte Blue
Stalwart, durable Monte Blue (1887-1963) was an American romantic leading man of the silent cinema. He entered films as an assistant director and stuntman with D.W. Griffith. Blue's finest role was the...
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White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
White Shadows in the South Seas (W.S. Van Dyke, Robert Flaherty, 1928) started a series with exotic films in which Western pioneers travelled to Polynesian islands or other far-away places. In White...
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