More Cinémagazine postcards, Part 1
Five years ago, we did a post about Cinémagazine. Cinémagazine-Edition or CE was a small French publishing company, located in Paris, which had a good reputation. Cinémagazine's star postcards from the...
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American film actress June Haver (1926-2005) was a popular alternative to the musical film stars Betty Grable and Alice Faye in several musicals of the 1940s. Haver's second husband was film star Fred...
View ArticleJack Hoxie
Jack Hoxie (1885–1965) was an American rodeo performer and motion picture actor whose career was most prominent in the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1930s. Hoxie is best recalled for his...
View ArticleGyurkovicsarna (1920)
Gösta Ekman and Pauline Brunius were the stars in the silent Swedish comedy Gyurkovicsarna/Lieutenant Tophat (John W. Brunius, 1920). Ekman and Brunius also wrote the script. For this Skandia Film...
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Europe was an interesting market for the Paramount studios. During the silent era, there was a close connection between the Ufa in Berlin and Paramount. In the early sound period, Paramount built a...
View ArticleLa Collectionneuse: Alice Guy
In September our friend Marlene Pilaete informed us that the French website l’Encinémathèque doesn’t exist anymore. Webmaster Christian Grenier had decided to close l’encinémathèque down for personal...
View ArticleJulien Carette
Julien Carette (1897-1966), often simply billed as Carette, was a distinguished French character screen actor, marked by his cheeky and fiery-eyed face and his Parisian accent. He was famous for his...
View ArticleMore Cinémagazine postcards, Part 2
Five years ago, we did a post about Cinémagazine. Cinémagazine-Edition or CE was a small French publishing company, located in Paris, which had a good reputation. Cinémagazine's star postcards from the...
View ArticleSean Connery
Scottish superstar Sean Connery (1930-2020) has died today, 31 October 2020. He is best known as the original secret agent 007, starring in seven James Bond films between 1962 and 1983. His film career...
View ArticleRobert Redford
With his all-American good looks, Robert Redford (1936) was one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1970s. In classics as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973), and All the...
View ArticleWilliam Desmond
Handsome William Desmond (1878–1949) was an American actor, who appeared in 205 films between 1915 and 1948. He was nicknamed 'The King of the Silent Serials' and acted in numerous silent Westerns and...
View ArticleCharlemagne (1933)
Raimu and Marie Glory were the stars of the French film Charlemagne (Pierre Colombier, 1933). This Pathé Natan production was based on the comic play 'The Admirable Crichton' by J.M. Barrie.French...
View ArticleRosine Deréan
French actress Rosine Deréan (1910-2001) was a popular star of the French cinema of the 1930s. Her best-known films are the melodrama Les deux orphelines (1933) and the romantic drama Lac aux dames...
View ArticleDirected by Sergei Bondarchuk
Film director, co-producer, writer, and actor Sergei Bondarchuk (1920–1994) was one of the most important filmmakers of the Soviet Union and had a career that spanned over five decades. The theme of...
View ArticleFranziska Kinz
Franziska Kinz (1897-1980) was an Austrian singer, stage, and film actress. She made more than 35 films. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 1712/1, 1937-1938. Photo: Atelier Binder, Berlin. German...
View ArticleOne of Ross Verlag's first series
One of the earliest series by Ross Verlag - or Verlag "Ross" as then still was written on the postcards - is series 2001: twelve postcards with colour portraits printed on a white paper. The material...
View ArticleMichael Douglas
Michael Douglas (1944) is an American actor-producer best known for his roles in films like Wall Street (1987), Fatal Attraction (1987), and Basic Instinct (1992). The elder son of Kirk Douglas gained...
View ArticleKen Maynard
Ken Maynard (1895–1973) was one of the superstars among the film cowboys. He was most active from the 1920s to the 1940s. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5239/2, 1930-1931. Photo: Universal....
View ArticleDe Jantjes (1934)
From this Friday on, EFSP will follow Cinefest, the 17th International Festival of German Film-Heritage in Hamburg. The theme of the festival is 'Cinema, War, and Tulips: German-Dutch Film Relations'....
View ArticleJackie Cooper
American actor, television director, producer, and executive Jackie Cooper (1922-2011) was one of the most popular child stars of the 1930s. He was endearing to audiences with his ability to make them...
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