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Martine Carol
One of the French cinema's most beautiful women was Martine Carol (1920-1967). During the early 1950s, the French sex symbol was a top box office draw as an elegant blonde seductress in many films and...
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Frankie Avalon
During the late 1950s, American singer and actor Frankie Avalon (1940) was a teen idol with big hits like 'Venus' (1958) and 'Why' (1959). Avalon had an authentic music background to go with the pretty...
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Avatar (2009)
Avatar (2009) is an American stereoscopic (3D) Science-Fiction film directed by James Cameron. The film grossed over US$2.7 billion, making it the most successful film ever made. The film also won...
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Grace Cunard
American actress Grace Cunard (1893–1967) was one of Universal's most popular serial queens in the 1910s. She was known to her fans as a daring jewel thief, an athletic reporter with a nose for news,...
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Marie Prevost
Beautiful Marie Prevost (1898-1937) was a Canadian-born, American silent screen actress. She started at Mack Sennett as one of his bathing beauties, but soon Irving Thalberg invited her to move to...
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Actors from the Baltic States
At EFSP, we like to discover unknown territories of European cinema. For today's post, Ivo Blom made a selection of vintage postcards of film actors from the Baltic States, Latvia, Lithuania, and...
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26 colour cards by Acin
In 2014 we did a post on the wonderful world of Casa Filmului Acin (Film House Acin) from communist Romania. In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, Casa Filmului Acin published hundreds of postcards of...
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Georges Marchal
Handsome and athletic Georges Marchal (1920-1997) was one of the most popular romantic heroes of the French cinema of the 1950s. Like Jean Marais, he starred in many Swashbucklers and other costume...
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Helen Shapiro
From 1961 until 1963, Helen Shapiro (1946) was England's teenage pop music queen. At one point she sold 40,000 copies daily of her biggest single, 'Walkin' Back to Happiness', during a 19-week chart...
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Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) is a French romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. The film, written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, is a...
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Gastone Monaldi
Italian actor and playwright Gastone Monaldi (1882-1932) is considered one of the greatest names in early 20th-century Romanesque theatre. He also acted in various Italian silent films of the...
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Winona Ryder
Delicate American actress Winona Ryder (1971) is known for her dark hair, brown eyes and pale skin. She starred in films such as Beetlejuice (1988), Heathers (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Bram...
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Mirror, mirror, Part 1
The use of mirrors has become established in films. It developed as a device in the European silent cinema in the 1910s to distinguish the new medium from theatre and to connect film more with...
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26 black and white cards by Acin
Last week, EFSP presented a selection of colour postcards by Casa Filmului Acin from Romania, one of the best-known film postcard publishers from Communist Eastern Europe. Acin also produced countless...
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Ricky Nelson
American singer Ricky Nelson (1940-1985) was one of the first teenage stars in America. He started his career in his parents' television series The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. In the late 1950s,...
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Erna Morena
It's International Women’s Day! EFSP celebrates one of the most unusual stars of silent German cinema. Erna Morena (1885-1962) had a star appeal as later Greta Garbo had. Although her name is now...
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Unter Geiern (1964)
The Euro-Western Unter Geiern/Among Vultures (Alfred Vohrer, 1964) is based on one of the Winnetou novels by Karl May. It starred Stewart Granger as Old Surehand, Elke Sommer, Götz George and Pierre...
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Maurice Costello
Maurice Costello (1877-1950) was a prominent American vaudeville actor of the late 1890s and early 1900s. Later, he became a famous matinee idol and director at The Vitagraph Co. of America.French...
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Dale Evans
American actress, singer, and songwriter Dale Evans (1912-2001) was nicknamed 'the Queen of the West'. She was the third wife of Roy Rogers. Alongside her husband, she appeared in numerous musical...
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La Collectionneuse: Mirror, Mirror, Part 2
The use of mirrors has become established in films. It developed as a device in the European silent cinema in the 1910s to distinguish the new medium from theatre and to connect film more with...
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