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The Way of All Flesh (1927)
The Way of All Flesh (Victor Fleming, 1927) is one of the famous lost films. Only a fragment of 8,5 minutes of the film has turned up. One of the assets of the film was the powerful performance of...
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Michela Belmonte
Michela Belmonte (1925-1978) was an Italian film actress of the Fascist era and the younger sister of film star Maria Denis. She was discovered by Roberto Rosselini, but after only three films, she...
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Let's Sing-Along!
With the arrival of sound films, musicals conquered the international cinema. Europe had its own genre in the early 1930s: the film operetta. Especially in Germany and France, this genre with such...
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Dorothy Dalton
Dorothy Dalton (1893-1972) was an American actress of the silent screen, who was a huge film star in the 1920s. She acted at such studios as Kay-Bee, Thomas Ince Corp, and Famous Players / Paramount....
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The World of Rizzoli, Part 5: 1940
The Milanese company Rizzoli & C. in Milan was one of the most prominent publishers of film star postcards in Italy between 1936 and 1942. Through the years, Ivo Blom collected many of the...
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Dorothy Gish
American actress Dorothy Gish was the sister of silent film star Lilian Gish. D.W. Griffith discovered the two girls in 1912 and they starred in his epics Hearts of the World (1918) and Orphans of the...
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Elsie Ferguson
American stage and film actress Elsie Ferguson (1885–1961) first climbed up to become a big Broadway star. From 1917 rill 1922, she had a fertile career in the silent cinema, debuting in Maurice...
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The Last Command (1928)
The Last Command (1928) was a silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz from a story by Lajos Bíró. Emil Jannings won the first Oscar for...
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Vanna Vanni
The elegant brunette Vanna Vanni (1915-1998) or Vanna Pegna was an Italian film actress who peaked in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She mostly played in comedies, many directed by Gennaro Righelli,...
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Juliette Gréco (1927-2020)
French actress and chanson singer Juliette Gréco has passed away today, 23 September 2020. She was the muse of the existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. Later she became the protégée of film mogul...
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Ernst Hannawald
German actor Ernst Hannawald (1959) is known for such films as the groundbreaking gay drama Die Konsequenz/The Consequence (Wolfgang Petersen, 1977) with Jürgen Prochnow, and the Italian comedy...
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The World of Rizzoli, Part 6: 1941-1942
The Milanese company Rizzoli & C. in Milan was one of the most prominent Italian publishers of film star postcards between 1936 and 1942. Through the years, Ivo Blom collected many of the wonderful...
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Esther Ralston
Projected as wholesome but fun-loving, Maine-born leading lady Esther Ralston (1902-1994) enjoyed a prime silent age career. She appeared in close to 100 films over a nearly 30-year period. At her...
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Wallace Reid
Wallace Reid (1891–1923) was an American actor in the silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover". He debuted at Selig but soon rose to popularity at Vitagraph and Universal. Later he...
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City Lights (1931)
Charles Chaplin played the Tramp through dozens of short films and, later, feature-length productions. In only a handful of films, he played characters other than the little tramp. The Tramp was...
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Luisa Ferida
Luisa Ferida (1914-1945) was an Italian stage and screen film, who was a popular leading actress in the late 1930s and 1940s Italian sound film. She was married to actor Osvaldo Valenti. Because of his...
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Directed by D.W. Griffith
Today, we start a new series on directors with a post on American pioneer David Wark Griffith.(1875–1948). After shooting hundreds of shorts at Biograph, in which he experimented with cinematic...
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Helga Martin
German actress Helga Martin (1940-1959) was one of the young stars of the Wirtschafswunder cinema in the late 1950s. She played supporting parts in 12 films, mostly comedies, and musicals. Her career...
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Enjoy the silence!
Today starts the 39th edition of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the silent-film festival in the Italian city of Pordenone. This festival will be online. On this first weekend, Saturday and Sunday, and...
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Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) is an icon of the Hollywood cinema. His private detectives, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Phillip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946), became the models for...
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