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Evelyn Keyes
Evelyn Keyes (1916-2008) was an American film actress. She is best known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and for the female lead in the blockbuster hit The Jolson Story...
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La Collectionneuse: The four most famous French female Boulevard theatre stars
Marthe Mercadier passed away on the 15th of September 2021. Alongside Sophie Desmarets, Maria Pacôme, and Jacqueline Maillan, she was one of the four most famous French female Boulevard theatre stars...
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Published by Editions La Malibran
After the 1960s, the production of film star postcards diminished. However, in France, several publishers remained active in making postcards with quality pictures of old and new stars and film scenes....
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Halloween with Freddy Krueger
Tonight, children dress up and call or knock on the doors of neighbouring houses decorated with pumpkins and lights after dark. They shout 'trick or treat', and get lots of sweets. Traditionally,...
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Michel Subor
Michel Subor (1935), is a French actor who gained initial fame with the starring role in Jean-Luc Godard's second feature, Le Petit Soldat (1960). He acted in a couple of American films, including...
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Nadine Tallier
Sexy French actress Nadine Tallier (1932) played various film roles from the late 1940s till the early 1960s. In 1962, she married banker Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild and then retired. Later she became...
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Le Collier de la reine (1929)
The historical film drama Le collier de la reine/The Queen's Necklace (Tony Lekain, Gaston Ravel, 1929), starring Marcelle Chantal and Diana Karenne, is an adaptation of an Alexandre Dumas' novel. It...
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Arkady Raikin
Arkady Raikin (1911-1987) was a very popular Soviet stand-up comedian, theatre and film actor, and stage director. Raikin developed his own pantomime style from various elements of theatre, operetta...
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Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965) was an American film and theatre actress, singer, and dancer. She was the first African-American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. for her...
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Published by Sedma Sila, Part 1
Sedma Sila was a postcard publisher from Beograd (Beograd), then Yugoslavia, now Serbia. It published postcards of mostly 1950s European and American stars. The pictures were distributed by Morava...
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Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was a multi-talented American actor, director, and visual artist, but also one of the true 'enfants terribles' of Hollywood. In 1970, he won a Golden Palm for Easy Rider...
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Recently acquired
Good morning! Just for the fun of it, a post with fifteen - plus one - postcards I recently found and liked....Italian postcard by TPOR, no. 398/2.British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London,...
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Jean Peters
Green-eyed beauty Jean Peters (1926-2000) flashed across the screen in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Peters did not want to be turned into a sex symbol. She preferred to play unglamorous,...
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Die Finanzen des Großherzogs (1924)
One of my favourite silent films is Friedrich Wilhem Murnau's satire Die Finanzen des Großherzogs/The Grand Duke's Finances (1924). It's the only comedy Murnau made, but he proved to be a master in...
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Dean Stockwell (1936-2021)
On 7 November 2021, American actor Dean Stockwell (1936) died due to natural causes at the age of 85. He was a popular child star in the late-1940s and acted with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra in...
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Oleg Popov
The legendary Russian clown Oleg Popov (1930-2016) was once described as the Michelangelo of the circus and was at one time the best-known clown in the world. Dressed in baggy pants with yellow straw...
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Published by Sedma Sila, Part 2
Last week, Ivo Blom made a selection for EFSP of Sedma Sila cards with European stars. Sedma Sila was a postcard publisher from Beograd (Beograd), then Yugoslavia, now Serbia. It published postcards of...
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Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was a handsome, eloquent, and highly charismatic actor and singer, who became one of the foremost interpreters of Eugene O'Neill's plays and one of the most treasured names in...
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Jim Carrey
Arguably the top screen comedian of the 1990s, Canadian-born entertainer Jim Carrey (1962) has combined equal parts of his idol Jerry Lewis, his spiritual ancestor Harry Ritz, and the loose-limbed Ray...
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Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens (1899-1963) was one of the most famous and influential but also controversial German actors and artistic directors of the twentieth century. He launched himself as a comet during the...
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