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Recently acquired: Dutch pop stars of the 1960s
Recently, we found on British eBay a series of great postcards of Dutch pop artists of the 1960s. All were published by 't Sticht, a publisher from the city of Utrecht, which later emerged with another...
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Florence Vidor
American silent film actress Florence Vidor (1895-1977) started her career at Vitagraph and her first husband King Vidor's own company. Later she worked for Paramount, especially in sophisticated...
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9 (2009)
The animation film 9 (Shane Acker, 2009) is situated in a world destroyed in a war between man and machine. The film was produced by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, Jim Lemley, Dana Ginsburg, and...
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Recently acquired: caricatures from Germany and Italy
Ivo Blom recently acquired two series of caricatures of film stars. One series dates from the early 1930s and was published by an unknown German publisher and the caricatures were drawn by the German...
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Before Hollywood: Lubin
Lubin or the Lubin Manufacturing Company was a pioneering American film production company that produced silent films from 1896 to 1916. Siegmund Lubin (1851-1923) started his empire with the purchase...
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Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers (1904-1999) was an American film actor and musician. During the peak of his popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was publicised as "America's Boy Friend". Rogers...
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Frédéric Duvallès
Frédéric Duvallès (1884-1971) was a popular French comedian who knew a rich career in French sound cinema of the 1930s and 1950s. Examples are L'héritier du Bal Tabarin (Jean Kemm, 1933), Train de...
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Ebba Thomsen
Ebba Thomsen (1887-1973) was a Danish actress during the golden era of silent films in Denmark. Thomsen was best known for her roles as the elegant leading lady opposite the Danish matinee idol...
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Edward Everett Horton
It seemed like American actor Edward Everett Horton (1886-1970) appeared in just about every Hollywood comedy made in the 1930s. He was always the perfect counterpart to the great gentlemen and...
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Pietro der Kosar (1925)
Pietro, der Korsar/Peter the Pirate (Arthur Robison, 1925), also known in English as The Sea Wolves or The Love Pirate, is a German silent historical adventure film starring Paul Richter, Aud...
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La Collectionneuse: Caricatures of female stars
There are several definitions of a “caricature”. Here is one I’ve found especially interesting: “A caricature of someone is a drawing that exaggerates their appearance or behavior in a humorous or...
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Before Hollywood: The Flying "A"
The American Film Manufacturing Company, also known as The Flying "A", was an influential and prolific American film studio between 1912 and 1921. In 1915, the formal name was changed to the American...
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Rochelle Hudson
American film actress Rochelle Hudson (1916–1972) appeared in Hollywood films from the early 1930s through the 1960s. Her roles went from ingenue to leading lady to character actress. She is best...
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Portrait by Nanni
Giovanni Nanni (1888-1969) was a renowned Italian painter and illustrator of postcards. He was famous for his WWI postcard portraits of elegant ladies with capricious hats. Beloved is also his 1920s...
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Tom Moore
Tom Moore (1883-1955) was an Irish-American actor and director. From 1908 to 1954, he appeared in at least 186 films. Frequently cast as the romantic lead, he starred in silent films as well as in some...
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Suzanne Pleshette
American actress Suzanne Pleshette (1937-2008) is best known for her many TV appearances and for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). German postcard by Krüger, no. 902/14. Photo: Terb Agency.American...
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Siegfried/Sigfrido (1912)
The Italian silent film Siegfried/Sigfrido (Mario Caserini, 1912) was a typical Ambrosio adaptation of the famous 'Nibelungenlied'. The film initially follows the plot of the old saga but greatly...
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Carla's choice: Top 10 Movie Posters
I like flea markets. And now I miss them. I hope we will get this Covid situation under control and markets will open again. At one of the last markets I went to, I bought a shoebox full of postcards....
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Before Hollywood: Kalem
The Kalem Company was an early American film studio founded in New York City in 1907. It was one of the first companies to make films abroad and to set up winter production facilities, first in Florida...
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Magda Magdeleine
Magda Madeleine (ca. 1890-after 1925), also Maud Madeleine or Magda Mohr, was a stage actress and film actress of the silent film era. In the mid-1910s, she acted in many detective films, while in the...
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