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Giovanni and Luigi Cimara
Giovanni Cimara (1889-1970) and his younger brother, Luigi Cimara (1891-1962), were well-known Italian actors who appeared in silent and sound cinema, television, radio, and theatre. Giovanni was the...
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John Gavin
In the late 1950s, American actor John Gavin was hailed at Universal Pictures as the second coming of Rock Hudson. The new heartthrob played Lana Turner's love interest in Douglas Sirk's remake of...
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Nancy Sinatra
American singer and actress Nancy Sinatra (1940) is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains best known for her 1966 signature hit 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin''.Romanian postcard by...
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Sally Forrest
Sally Forrest (1928-2015), was an American film, stage, and TV actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She is best known for the films she made with Ida Lupino and Fritz Lang.German postcard by Kunst un Bild,...
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The Max B. Sheffer Card Co., USA
In 1922, the Max B. Sheffer Card Company (M.B.S.C.) in Chicago produced a series of black and white postcards with remarkable frames. The pictures are also special: film stills of American films from...
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Before Hollywood: Edison
The Edison Manufacturing Company was founded in 1889 by the inventor and entrepreneur Thomas A. Edison. The company manufactured batteries, machinery and equipment, and also produced kinetoscope films....
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Lionel Barrymore
American actor Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954) was first seen on the silver screen in 1908. Between 1911 and 1917, Lionel made 93 films. Later, at MGM, he worked non-stop in the most famous films during...
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The Pisorno Studios in Tirrenia
The Tirrenia Studios or in Italian 'Tirrenia, Stabilimenti cinematografici', also known at one point as the Pisorno Studios, is a film studio complex located in the Italian coastal town of Tirrenia in...
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Betty Nansen
Betty Nansen (1873-1943) was a Danish stage and silent film actress. She was also director of the theatre that still carries her name, the Betty Nansen Teatret (Betty Nansen Theatre), a theatre...
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Three Henny Porten films (2)
Last month, EFSP had a post with three films by Henny Porten, one of the three most popular stars of German silent cinema. For this post, Ivo Blom selected three more Porten films for which Ross Verlag...
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Claire Trevor
American actress Claire Trevor (1910-2000) appeared in 68 feature films from 1933 to 1982. She often played the hard-boiled blonde or another type of shady lady. She won the Oscar for Best Supporting...
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Recently acquired: five vintage film flyers
EFSP focuses on film star postcards, but we love to side-step once in a while. Today we share five flyers or leaflets which we found recently. Two were made in the Netherlands in the early 1930s for...
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Before Hollywood: Selig
The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company that was founded in Chicago in 1896 by William Nicholas Selig (1864–1948), one of the true pioneers of the film industry. His company...
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Lauren Bacall
At 19, legendary film actress Lauren Bacall (1924-2014) became an overnight star as 'Slim' opposite Humphrey Bogart in her memorable film debut in Howard Hawks'To Have and Have Not (1942). She became...
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Artistas de Cine
Ivo Blom found this sweet series of Spanish collectors cards by Chocolates Amatller in Barcelona. The series, called 'Artistas de cine' (Cinema artists), dates from the 1920s and all the caricatures of...
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Joan Rice
Joan Rice (1930-1997) was a pert, dark-haired leading lady, who enjoyed a brief flurry of popularity in British films of the early- to mid-1950s. She is probably best known as Maid Marian to Richard...
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Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman (1958) is a talented English film star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. He is one of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career...
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Kai Wiesinger
German actor Kai Wiesinger (1966) has appeared in several German TV shows and films since 1992. In Comedian Harmonists (1997) he played singer Erwin Bootz.German postcard by Senator Film. Photo: Jim...
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Cinema Paradiso
Remember going to the movies? We like to binge-watch Netflix and Prime, but we do miss the unique experience of going to a cinema. We love to visit the 'bioscoop', the 'kino', the movie palaces...
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Before Hollywood: Keystone
In the final post of our Before Hollywood series, we present the funniest of the American pioneering studios, Mack Sennett's The Keystone Film Company. In 1912, Sennett and two producers formed the...
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