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Dick Powell
American singer and actor Dick Powell (1904-1963) was also a film producer, film director, and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a juvenile lead in the Warner backstage musicals, Powell showed...
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Raymond Aimos
Character actor Raymond Aimos (1891–1944) or simply Aimos was one of the familiar faces of the French cinema of the 1930s and early 1940s. During this golden age of poetic realism, he was the...
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Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell (1918)
We have another film special with Henny Porten! In the German silent comedy Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell/The Lady, the Devil and the Model (Rudolf Biebrach, 1918), she plays a young...
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Lucien Dalsace
Well-built and handsome Lucien Dalsace (1893-1980) was a French stage and screen actor who peaked in the French silent cinema of the 1920s. He went from success to success in films directed by Louis...
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Photo by Bragaglia
Our series Photo by... returns! Every Thursday, we'll do a post on a terrific photographer and today we start with the Italian master Arturo Bragaglia (1893-1962). He had a photographic studio at the...
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Tilda Thamar
Actress Tilda Thamar (1917–1989) became known as the ‘Blonde Bombshell from Argentina’ in the French cinema of the 1950s. After Eva Perón had ruled that there was no further filming in Argentina,...
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Male stars of the Comédie-Française
Last Saturday, EFSP had a post on a postcard series with the stars of the Comédie-Française by the French publisher FA (F.A. Christensen). Ivo Blom acquired also another fantastic postcard series with...
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R.I.P.: Little Richard (1932-2020)
Yesterday, 9 May 2020, American pianist-singer Little Richard passed away. In the mid-1950s, his dynamic songs like 'Tutti Frutti' and 'Good Golly Miss Molly' and his charismatic showmanship laid the...
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Nadia Gray
Romanian-born actress Nadia Gray (1923-1994) was an elegant and seductive star of European films of the 1950s and 1960s. She is best known for her striptease scene in Fellini’s classic La Dolce Vita...
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Die Weber (1927)
One of the classics of the Weimar cinema is Die Weber/The Weavers (Friedrich Zelnik, 1927). During the 1840s, a group of Silesian weavers stages an uprising due to their concerns about the Industrial...
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Marcelle Géniat
French stage and screen actress Marcelle Géniat (1881-1959) was a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française. She also appeared in fifty-three films between 1909 and 1956. French postcard, series 104-1....
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Photo by Foulsham & Banfield
Foulsham & Banfield was a British photographic portrait studio, which was active between the 1900s and the 1920s. The studio was first located in Wigmore Street and later in Old Bond Street,...
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Käthe Dorsch
German actress Käthe Dorsch (1890-1957) was a famous stage actress in Vienna and Berlin. She also made several silent and sound films and was married to Harry Liedtke. During the war, she played a...
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Found in the attic: Dutch Foto-album
A long time ago, I bought this old Dutch photo album which was in quite a bad state. I was disappointed that all the postcards had been glued into the album and that most of the stars were from...
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Tom Cruise
With his charismatic smile, American actor and producer Tom Cruise (1962) became the most successful member of the Brat Pack, Hollywood's golden boys and girls of the 1980s. Top Gun (1985) made him an...
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Olaf Storm
German actor Olaf Storm (1894-1931) appeared in supporting roles in ca. 30 silent films, including three major classics of this period. He worked often with director Franz Hofer. Storm edited a film...
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Adieu Michel!
On 12 May, Michel Piccoli (1925-2020), one of the most original and versatile French actors of the last half-century, has died. He appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to a gangster to...
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Wanda Hendrix
Green-eyed and dark-haired American actress Wanda Hendrix (1928-1981) achieved stardom in her teens and played in about 20 films in the late 1940s and 1950s. Her first, brief marriage was to the most...
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Photo by Sartony
Sarony was a French photo studio that existed throughout the 20th century and beautifully portrayed countless French silent film stars. Sarony's studio, 'photographe de luxe', was first located at 16...
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Carl Raddatz
German actor Carl Raddatz (1912-2004) was much in demand by film producers in the 1940s and especially in the 1950s. He appeared in several Nazi Propaganda films, and he also gave Joseph Stalin a...
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