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New in the GDR Cinemas in 1968
Around 1980, I went to Berlin with my three best friends. We were 20, New Wave fans and did a lot of unforgettable things. One was visiting Communist East-Berlin. We were controlled at Station...
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Wallace Beery
American actor Wallace Beery (1885-1949) is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!, and his...
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Der Schatz am Silbersee (1963)
Der Schatz im Silbersee/Treasure of Silver Lake (Harald Reinl, 1963) was the most successful German film of the 1962/1963 season. Surprisingly, it even beat the first James Bond film, Dr. No (Terence...
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Der Letzte Mohikaner (1965)
The Eurowestern Der Letze Mohikaner/The Last Tomahawk (Harald Reinl, 1965) is one of the many film versions of the classic novel 'The Last of the Mohicans' by James Fenimore Cooper. It is a...
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Jean-Claude Pascal
Singer ánd actor Jean-Claude Pascal (1927-1992) was one of the romantic lovers of the French cinema in the 1950s. In 1961 he won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing 'Nous Les Amoureux'....
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Photo by G.B. Poletto
G.B. Poletto (1915-1988) was one of the most prolific set photographers that worked in the Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1950, Titanus, one of the major studios, offered him an exclusive...
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R.I.P.: Irm Hermann (1942-2020)
On 26 May 2020, the German actress and assistant director Irm Hermann passed away in Berlin after a short illness. She was the muse and a close friend of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and played roles in 24...
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Croissant Revisited
In February, EFSP paid attention to the French editor Croissant and its beautiful series of coloured postcards for early films Pathé Frères and Gaumont. Croissant published more interesting postcards...
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Anita Stewart
American silent film actress Anita Stewart (1895-1961) was one of the earliest actresses who achieved success and public recognition in the cinema. From 1911 on, she worked with director Ralph Ince for...
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André Deed
André Deed (1879-1940) was one of the most popular comedians in French and Italian silent cinema. He was one of the first of the named actors in the cinema, and his film series based around Boireau and...
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Gräfin Donelli (1924)
Gräfin Donelli/Countess Donelli (1924) was a typical Henny Porten film of the 1920s, a rather conventional melodrama. Porten's handsome co-star was the little-known Eberhard Leithoff. Remarkable is the...
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Marte Harell
Austrian actress Marte Harell (1907-1996) played strong women who determined the events, in several Viennese comedies and operettas of the 1940s and 1950s.German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 2858/2,...
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Photo by d'Ora
Atelier d’Ora was one of the most important Austrian photo salons of the first decades of the 20th century. The studio was founded in 1907 by Dora Kallmus with the support of Arthur Benda, who was the...
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Richard Tauber
Austrian opera singer Richard Tauber (1891-1948) was one of the world's finest Mozartian tenors of the 20th century. With his monocle and high hat, he became the 'epitome of Viennese charm' with such...
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The 'Künstler im Film' cigarette cards
A small part of our European film star postcard collection is formed by vintage cigarette cards. We simply can't resist these small, colourful treasures from the past. During the 1930s, Ross-Verlag in...
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Gia Scala
Gia Scala (1934-1972) was a beautiful, sensitive English born Italian-American actress and model. Despite roles in such classics as The Guns of Navarone (1961), she never reached her full potential in...
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Ferdinand von Alten
Ferdinand von Alten (1885-1933), born Baron von Lamezan auf Altenhofen, was a German stage and screen actor. He had a prolific career in the Weimar cinema and worked with both Ernst Lubitsch and Alfred...
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Kammermusik (1925)
The German silent film drama Kammermusik/My Bachelor Husbands (1925) was a typical Henny Porten vehicle of the 1920s, directed by Carl Froelich and produced by their own company HPF (Henny...
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Enrico Glori
Enrico Glori (1901-1966) was a talented and experienced character actor in over 126 French and Italian films between 1934 and 1963. The Italian specialised in sadistic, treacherous and violent...
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Photo by Atelier Jacobi
Atelier Jacobi was a Berlin film studio, which made numerous film star photos for Ross Verlag postcards. The Jacobi family had the most famous portrait-photography business in Germany, with studios in...
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