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Lea Massari
Lea Massari (1933) is an Italian actress who worked in both Italian and French cinema. She is best remembered for such film classics as Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960) as the missing girl...
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Fernand Ledoux
Fernand Ledoux (1897-1993) was a French character actor of Belgian origin who appeared in close to 80 films. Although films such as La Bête humaine (1938) and Remorques (Jean Grémillon, 1941) made him...
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Barbara La Marr
Beautiful Barbara La Marr (1896–1926) was an American film actress, who appeared in twenty-seven films during her career between 1920 and 1926. The 'Girl Who Is Too Beautiful' was noted for her beauty...
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G. Dupont-Emera (G.D.E.)
Amazing is the right word for this series of early 20th Century postcards by G.D.E. French actors are portrayed in unusual, sometimes lively poses which seem like improvisations for the camera. The...
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Grease (1978)
John Travolta had his breakthrough as disco dancer Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977). He followed it up with the part of leather jacket wearing, hunky greaser Danny Zuko in the romantic film...
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Mara Berni
Italian actress Mara Berni (1932) was a blonde and shapely bombshell who was a popular star in Italian comedies of the 1950s and 1960s.Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 1731. Photo: Cineriz....
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Der Meister von Nürnberg (1927)
Ludwig Berger's historical comedy Der Meister von Nürnberg/The Master of Nuremberg (Ludwig Berger, 1927) was based on Richard Wagner's opera 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'. Rudolf RRittner played the...
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Ettore Manni
Ettore Manni (1927-1979) was a Dark, rugged, and exceedingly good-looking Italian film and television actor, who appeared in 107 films between 1952 and 1979. While he was the handsome lead in the...
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Gianna Terribili Gonzales
Countess Gianna Terribili Gonzales (1882-1940) played in almost fifty films between 1911 and 1925. Together with Francesca Bertini, Lyda Borelli, and several others, she was one of the divas of Italian...
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Mae Marsh
Mae Marsh (1894-1968) was an American screen actress with a career spanning over 50 years and over 200 films. Among her memorable films are D.W. Griffith's silent classics Judith of Bethulia (1914),...
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Bromostampa
During the 1950s, Bromostampa was an Italian editor of film star and glamour postcards. Its Turin based address was Via Spotorno 2, but later on, the firm was also based in Milan. For this post we...
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Top Gun (1986)
35 years ago, Top Gun (1986) established Tom Cruise as an action superstar for the next decades. The American testosterone-fuelled actioner about fighter jet pilots in training co-starred Kelly...
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Franca Marzi
Italian actress Franca Marzi (1926-1989) was active in Italian cinema of the fifties. She often played the voluptuous girlfriend or femme fatale. Marzi is best known as Giulietta Massina's best friend...
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The Divine Lady (1929)
The Divine Lady (Frank Lloyd, 1929) was an American historical drama in which Corinne Griffith starred as Lady Emma Hamilton and Hungarian-Austrian matinee idol Victor Varconi played her lover, Admiral...
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Rudolf Lettinger
Rudolf Lettinger (1865-1937) was a German theatre and film actor. On stage, he worked with acclaimed director Max Reinhardt. In 1912, Lettinger played his first film role in Das Geheimnis von Monte...
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La Gerusalemme liberata (1918)
The Italian silent film La Gerusalemme liberata/The Crusaders (Enrico Guazzoni, Guazzoni Film 1918) was an adaptation of the classic poem by Torquato Tasso from 1581. The film is set during the...
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Bessie Love
American actress Bessie Love (1898-1986) was introduced to the cinema by D.W. Griffith. He also gave the actress her screen name. She played innocent young girls and later wholesome leading ladies in...
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Humour à la Carte
During the 1980s, one of the most prominent postcard publishers was Editions Humour à la Carte. The French publisher was based at 38, Rue Ste Croix de la Bretonnier in Paris, according to the flip side...
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Lee Marvin
American film and television actor Lee Marvin (1924-1987) began as a supporting player of a generally vicious demeanor, then metamorphosed into a star playing tough, hard-bitten anti-heroes. Known for...
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The Autochrome Lumière
Auguste and Louis Lumière are best known for their invention of the Cinématographe in 1895. However, they had also been experimenting with colour photography for several years. Their autochrome Lumière...
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