Clik here to view.
X-Men (2000)
X-Men (Bryan Singer, 2001) was the first of Marvel's superhero blockbusters. Bryan Singer's film still offers many surprises and is a wonder of storytelling and creativity. Also amazing is the great...
View ArticleClik here to view.
La Collectionneuse: Photo by Ströminger
This La Collectionneuse postcard gallery puts the spotlight on the work of the Czech photographer Willy Ströminger (1902-1985). He opened his studio in 1926 and photographed his country’s greatest film...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Les Films Osso
Adolphe Osso (1894–1961) was a French film producer. After having worked in the United States, at Paramount and Pathé Exchange, Osso co-founded the French subsidiary of Paramount, of which he was the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mary Fuller
Next week, we start a new series at EFSP: Before Hollywood. Each Sunday, we will post about the early American cinema, its stars, and studios. One of the first major stars of American cinema was Mary...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Luise Rainer
German-American-British film actress Luise Rainer (1910-2014) was the first to win multiple Academy Awards and the first to win back-to-back for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937). At...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Umberto Melnati
Though he also had various parts in dramas and precursors of the Giallo, Umberto Melnati (1897-1979) is mostly known for his screen comedies, in particular, the 'Telefoni Bianchi' comedies of the 1930s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gustl Stark-Gstettenbauer
German stage, film, and television actor Gustl Stark-Gstettenbaur (1914-1996) or Gustl (Stark-)Gstettenbauer began his career onstage as a child actor in 1927, at the age of thirteen. He went on to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Einar Zangenberg
Einar Zangenberg (1882-1918) was a Danish actor, film director, film producer, and a pioneer of Central European film. He was known as a dare-devil in early Danish silent cinema. As a swimmer,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Van Helsing (2004)
In the fantasy film Van Helsing (Stephen Sommers, 2004), Hugh Jackman plays the famed monster hunter. Van Helsing is sent by the Vatican to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula, (Richard Roxburgh) who is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Recently acquired: Ross Verlag XXL
During the 1930s, Ross Verlag in Berlin published film star cards in several formats: you could collect postcards in different sizes, but also very small cigarette cards and big collectors cards in an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Before Hollywood - Essanay
Today, we start a new series at EFSP: Before Hollywood. Each Sunday, we will post about the early American cinema, its studios, films, and stars. The first post is about the pioneering Essanay Film...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Barbara Nichols
Voluptuous, platinum blonde Barbara Nichols (1928-1976) was an American actress who often played brassy or comic roles in films in the 1950s and 1960s. 'The Queen of the B movies' played strippers,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Claudio Gora
Italian actor and director Claudio Gora (1913-1998), was already highly active during the war years. From the late fifties, he had a prolific career in Italy in both genre and 'auteur' cinema, often as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Olympe Bradna
Brunette leading lady Olympe Bradna (1920-2012) was a French dancer and actress, who danced in Paris, Stockholm, New York City, and other world capitals. In Hollywood, she appeared in more than a dozen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Richard Talmadge
Richard Talmadge (1892-1981) was a German-born actor, stuntman, and film director in Hollywood. Talmadge's fast-pacing action and adventure movies were popular over the world, in particular in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Daredevil (2003)
Daredevil is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Daredevil was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an unspecified amount of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three Henny Porten films
Henny Porten was one of the three most popular German actresses of German silent cinema. In the 1910s and 1920s, her sepia postcards were collected by countless German school girls, including Marlene...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Before Hollywood: The Biograph Company
The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a film company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kate Beckinsale
English actress Kate Beckinsale (1973) started her career in British costume dramas during the 1990s. From 2001 on, she starred in such Hollywood blockbusters as Pearl Harbor (2001), Van Helsing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sergio Tòfano
Italian actor Sergio Tòfano (1886-1973) was also a director, playwright, scene designer, and illustrator. In 1917 he invented for a children's magazine the character Signor Bonaventura, whose...
View Article