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Madonna
Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her provocative song texts and performances....
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Olga and Carlo Benetti
Italian actress Olga Benetti (?-1958) acted in many films of the Roman film companies Cines, Celio, and Caesar in the 1910s and early 1920s. She often performed opposite Francesca Bertini, Gustavo...
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Nat King Cole
American singer and pianist Nat 'King' Cole (1919-1965) with his typical raspy voice received 28 golden records for such classic hits as 'Mona Lisa' (1949), 'Too Young' (the #1 song in 1951), his...
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Cinema-Illustrazione, Part 1
The popular Italian magazine Cinema-Illustrazione was founded in 1930. It originated from the journal Illustrazione, which started in 1926. From 1930 on, it only focussed on cinema. Among the editors...
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Uma Thurman
Blonde and blue-eyed American actress Uma Thurman (1970) is best known for her roles in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) and was hailed as...
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Clacquesin
Clacquesin is a liqueur produced from ca. 1860 by Paul Clacquesin, industrialist, owner of a distillery company founded in 1775 at rue du Dragon in Paris, and produced in his factories in Malakoff....
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La Vie de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (1914)
For this Easter post, Ivo Blom chose a Spanish series of postcards for the early silent French film La Vie de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (Maurice André Maître, 1914), produced by Pathé Frères. The...
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Carole Lombard
American film actress Carole Lombard (1908–1942) was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s. She was particularly noted for her energetic, ditzy, and often off-beat roles in screwball...
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I Signori di Vettori
Three years ago, EFSP did a post on Ed. G. Vettori which published stage and film star postcards in Italy during the 1910s and 1920s. The Bologna-based publisher made thousands of black and white...
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Michael Bohnen
Michael Bohnen (1887-1965) was a German bass-baritone opera singer who performed at Covent Garden, the Bayreuth Festival, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He was also popular as a stage and...
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Cinema-Illustrazione, Part 2
The popular Italian magazine Cinema-Illustrazione, founded in 1930, published a great series of postcards with female Hollywood film stars during the early 1930s. Last Thursday, EFSP did a post with...
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Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone (1946) is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor, screenwriter, and director. Film fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 30 years, making...
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Recently acquired
This is another post in our irregularly appearing series about our new acquisitions. As we're still in lockdown and all the collector fairs and flea markets are closed, we discovered these little...
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The Merry Widow (1925)
In the silent film The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim, 1925), John Gilbert plays a prince, who must woo the now wealthy dancer (Mae Murray) he once abandoned in order to keep her money in the country...
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Jeanne Aubert
Jeanne Aubert a.k.a. Jane Aubert (1900-1988) was a French singer and actress, who was successful in Paris but also on Broadway and the West End.French postcard by A.N. (A. Noyer), Paris, no. 444....
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Franz Sala
Franz Sala, aka Francesco Sala (1886-1952) was a prolific actor of the Italian silent cinema, mostly playing the evil antagonist, such as the devil Barbariccia in Maciste all’inferno (Guido Brigone,...
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Olga San Juan
American actress, dancer, and comedian Olga San Juan (1927-2009) was mainly active in films during the 1940s. San Juan was dubbed the 'Puerto Rican Pepperpot' or 'Beauty Siren' for singing and dancing...
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Cinema-Illustrazione, Part 3
Today our third post about Cinema-Illustrazione. This popular Italian magazine, founded in 1930, published a great series of postcards with female Hollywood film stars during the early 1930s. Today,...
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Terry Moore
Terry Moore (1929) is an American film and television actress. She starred in several box-office hits including Mighty Joe Young (1949), Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) (for which she was nominated for...
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Fotofolio
In 1975, the American company Fotofolio / Artpost started to publish the history of photography in postcard format. Nowadays the Fotofolio collection is simply amazing. The New York-based publisher...
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