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Three films starring Pina Menichelli
Fascinating and enigmatic Pina Menichelli (1890-1984) was the most bizarre diva of the Italian silent film. Ivo selected Italian postcards of three films which she made in 1923, at the end of her film...
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Paul Newman
American film actor Paul Newman (1925-2008) was a matinee idol with the most famous blue eyes of Hollywood, who often played detached yet charismatic anti-heroes and rebels. He was nominated for nine...
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More J.R.P.R.
Last year, we had a beautiful post on French postcard publisher J.R.P.R. We love the sepia cards of this Paris-based company which produced more than 500 postcards with international stars or scenes of...
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Les amours imaginaires (2010)
The French romantic drama Les amours imaginaires/Heartbeats (2010) tells the story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle. It was the second film of the young Canadian filmmaker...
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Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand (1892-1930) was a popular American silent film comedienne, in particular in her films with Charlie Chaplin. But alcohol, drugs, and scandal wrecked her career and TBC killed her at a...
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Die Csardasfürstin (1927)
Die Csardasfürstin (Hanns Schwarz, 1927) was a silent version of a popular operetta about a Hungarian cabaret performer, about to go on an American tour, who negotiates the complex demands of three...
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Delia Scala
Delia Scala (1929-2004) was an Italian ballerina, actress, and singer who played a leading role in the nascent commedia musicale. During the 1940s and 1950s, she appeared in several Italian films....
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Atelier Schmoll
Atelier Schmoll was the Berlin studio of the German photographer Alexander Schmoll. From the late 1920s onward, Schmoll worked as set photographer in German cinema. He photographed many Henny Porten...
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Gilbert Roland
Mexican-born American film star Gilbert Roland (1905–1994) was often cast in the typical 'Latin Lover' role during the silent era. Roland later played romantic lead roles in Spanish language...
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Rotalfoto
Rotalfoto (or RotalFoto) was an Italian postcard publisher, located in Milano (Milan). From the 1950s till the 1970s, the firm created countless postcards with the logo of a globe. The subjects were...
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Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
American superhero film Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) is the sequel to the film Fantastic Four (2005). Both films are based on the 'Fantastic Four comic book and were directed by Tim...
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Eduard von Winterstein
Eduard von Winterstein (1871-1961) was a German film and theatre actor. His film career spanned from the 1910s to the late 1950s, from the Wilhelminian cinema to the cinema of the GDR.German postcard...
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Die lachende Seele (1918)
Norwegian film actress Aud Egede Nissen and her husband, German actor Georg Alexander were the stars of the German silent film Die lachende Seele/The Laughing Soul (1918). The film was directed by...
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Isa Barzizza
Isa Barzizza (1929) is an Italian actress, who is considered one of the most important interpreters of the Italian revue, cinema, and television.Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 565. Photo:...
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Ivan Hedqvist
Ivan Hedqvist (1880-1935) was a Swedish stage actor and director who was also part of the Golden Age of the Swedish Cinema. He acted in silent films of Victor Sjöstrom, Mauritz Stiller and Gustaf...
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Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney (1910-1999) was an American stage, screen, and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s, such as An American Tragedy...
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Ross Luxus cards
Between 1930 and 1933 Ross Verlag published a series of film star postcards in the 'Luxus klasse' (luxury class). The Lucus cards were first advertised in the German magazine Die Filmwoche (Film week)...
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La Collectionneuse: The Renée Adorée mystery
The name of Renée Adorée doesn’t immediately come to mind when you think of 'mystery girls' from the golden age of the movies. You wouldn’t rank her among the likes of Jetta Goudal or Merle Oberon who...
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Jurassic Park (1993)
Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993) ranks as one of the most successful Science-Fiction adventure films of all time. The film is based on Michael Crichton's book of the same name and is the first...
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Der Fürst der Diebe und seine Liebe (1919)
Der Fürst der Diebe und seine Liebe/The King of Thieves and His Love (Viggo Larsen, 1919) was a four-part German film which premiered in Berlin on 4 November 1919. Director and star was Danish actor,...
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