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Jo Weil
Jo Weil (1977) is a German actor and TV presenter. He is best known for his role as Oliver Sabel in the soap-opera Verbotene Liebe/Forbidden Love. He had played the character for 15 years before trying...
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Zwischen zwei Welten (1919)
In the German silent film Zwischen zwei Welten/Between two worlds (Adolf Gärtner, 1919), the two popular stars Bruno Kastner and Hanni Weisse played a romantic couple. Ross Verlag made a series of four...
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Lore Frisch
Lore Frisch (1925-1962) was a German film actress of the 1950s and early 1960s. She starred in the popular DEFA films Der Ochse von Kulm (1955), Zar und Zimmermann/The Czar and the Carpenter (1956),...
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Photo by Wyndham
We found some beautiful French postcards of the 1920s with exquisite photos of stage- and film actors by 'Wyndham'. Some of the sepia-coloured postcards were published by Wyndham Ed., probably the...
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Pierre Magnier
Pierre Magnier (1869-1959) was a French stage and screen actor and director, known for such films as La roue (Abel Gance, 1923), and La règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939). He was the second actor to...
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Paul Wegener on stage
German actor, writer, and director Paul Wegener (1874-1948) is a film legend. As one of the pioneers of the German cinema, he realised the potential of the new medium. But before he made such silent...
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Paulette Goddard
American actress Paulette Goddard (1905-1990) started her career as a fashion model and as a Ziegfeld Girl in Broadway shows. She had her breakthrough as Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in Modern Times...
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Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020)
Yesterday, 25 July 2020, Olivia de Havilland (1916), passed away in her hometown Paris. The Japanese-born British-American former actress had a career that spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49...
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Charlie Chaplin's Essanay films
In 1914, Charles Chaplin signed on at the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, where he made 15 films. Jeffrey Vance in his book 'Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema': "If the early slapstick of the Keystone...
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John Saxon (1935-2020)
John Saxon (1935) passed away on Saturday 25 July 2020. He worked on over 200 film and TV projects during the span of seven decades. His portrayal of a brutal Mexican bandit opposite Marlon Brando in...
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Ore 9: lezione di chimica (1941)
The young Alida Valli starred in the highschool drama Ore 9: lezione di chimica/Schoolgirl Diary (Mario Mattoli, 1941). She is in love with her young chemistry teacher, played by the handsome Andrea...
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Ludwig Hartau
Ludwig Hartau (1877-1922) was a German stage and screen actor. From 1897 he acted on stage, and in 1904 he joined Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater. He became famous for his performances in plays by...
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Photo by Foto Pesce
Foto Pesce was an Italian photo studio that portrayed many Italian film stars of the late 1930 and early 1940s. Foto Pesce was a photographic agency founded in 1916 by Aurelio Pesce. Pesce's glamorous...
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Sally Eilers
American actress Sally Eilers (1908-1978) was a popular Hollywood star in the early-1930s. She was tagged 'the most beautiful girl in movies'.German cigarette card by Ross Verlag in the 'Künstler im...
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Tiber Film
The Tiber Film company of Rome was founded in 1914 by producer Gioacchino Mecheri (1876-1942). Between 1915 and 1919, Tiber Film rivaled the other Roman company, Caesar Film, run by producer Giuseppe...
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Anne Crawford
Anne Crawford (1920-1956) was a beautiful, sadly short-lived British leading lady with a gentle, good-humoured personality. From 1938 through 1954 she starred in 24 films.British postcard in the...
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Maria Melato
Italian actress Maria Melato (1885-1950) appeared in the theatre, on radio, and in the cinema. Her films included Ritorno/Return (1914), Anna Karenina (1917), and Il volo degli aironi/The flight of the...
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Liebe und Diebe (1928)
We continue our series of Henny Porten film specials with postcards by Ross Verlag. Today, the silent comedy Liebe und Diebe/Love and Thieves (Carl Froehlich, 1928) in which she once again played a...
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Jeanne Delvair
Jeanne Delvair (1877-1943) was an acclaimed French stage actress of the Comédie-Française, but she also had rich career in French silent cinema, mainly at Pathé Frères. She is the sister of actress...
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Photo by Sciutto
Gigi Sciutto was a famous Genovese photographer in the early 1900s. He supposedly shot the first film footage on Genova around 1897. His brother Carlo continued the family's photo studio for 40 years,...
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