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Butywave Shampoo
"Butywave Shampoo - gives life to your hair", said a popular British advert in the 1920s: "Each shampoo contains in separate packets Egyptian Henna and Lime-Juice Rinsing Chrystals." This was a shampoo...
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Clara Bow
American actress Clara Bow (1905-1965) rose to stardom as an uninhibited flapper in silent films during the 1920s. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It (1927) brought her global fame and...
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Written by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of the most important English writers during the Victorian era and the first literary chronicler of the metropolis in the midst of the Industrial Revolution. He...
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Published by Weenenk & Snel
Weenenk & Snel in the city of Baarn was one of the Dutch publishers that created many film star postcards, first mainly of Dutch actors in sepia and later of film stars in black and white. In 1900,...
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Hannelore Schroth
German actress Hannelore Schroth (1922-1987) made her film debut at the age of nine and a long and successful career in both theatre and cinema followed. She starred in Helmut Käutner's Unter den...
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Cannes Film Festival
Every year, in the third week of May, international filmmakers, stars, film industry professionals and thousands of journalists go to the Côte d'Azur. They visit the most prestigious film festival in...
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A Home at the End of the World (2004)
A Home at the End of the World (Michael Mayer, 2004) is a lyrical American drama from a screenplay by Michael Cunningham, based on Cunningham's 1990 novel of the same name. It stars Colin Farrell,...
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Soviet film postcards of the 1920s
During the 1920s, the cinema of the Soviet Union was at its best. But who were the actors in these films? Vintage postcards of the Soviet cinema of the 1920s are rare. But in 1927, a new postcard...
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Laura Nucci
Italian actress Laura Nucci (1913-1994) was one of the stars of the Fascist era. Between 1930 and 1989, she appeared in more than 60 films and TV series.Italian postcard by Armando Terzoli, Roma, no....
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Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly (1912-1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he...
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More postcards by News Productions
Last year, EFSP had a popular post about News Productions in Baulmes which operated till 2004. We love the stylish black and white postcards by this Swiss publisher with classic film scenes, set...
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Written by Emile Zola
In our series 'Written by ...' today a post with postcards of stage and screen adaptations after the novels by French author Émile Zola (1940-1902). He is considered the most important representative...
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Nicole Maurey
Glamorous French beauty Nicole Maurey (1926-2016) appeared in 65 film and television productions between 1944 and 1997. She flirted with Hollywood stardom in the 1950s, co-starring with Bing Crosby in...
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Quick (1932)
In the comedy Quick (1932), the Ufa teamed two of their brightest stars, Lilian Harvey and Hans Albers. But their chemistry was less sensational than the sparks that fly between Harvey and Willy...
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Zany Joan
In 1928, Joan Crawford became a star with her role as Diana Medford in Our Dancing Daughters (Harry Beaumont, 1928). The film and her role struck a chord with the Zeitgeist. Joan played a spunky and...
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Moderne Schönheitsgalerie
During the 1920s and 1930s, Ross Verlag in Berlin produced some colourful collectors card series for several cigarette factories in Germany. 'Unsere Bunten Filmbilder' (Our Colourful Film Images) is a...
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Norman Kerry
Norman Kerry (1894–1956) was an American actor of the silent era, who peaked in the Lon Chaney films The Hunchback of the Notre Dame (1923), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), and The Unknown...
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Marthe Keller
Beautiful Swiss actress Marthe Keller (1945) appeared in several French, Italian and German films but she became a star when she played a beautiful princess in the TV series La demoiselle d'Avignon/The...
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Eva Speyer
Eva Speyer (1883-1932 (?)), also known as Eva Stöckl Speyer, was a German actress, who appeared in more than seventy films from 1911 to 1932.German postcard by Photochemie, Berlin, no. K. 229. Photo:...
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Written by Gabriele d’ Annunzio
Italian novelist and playwright Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) was also a decorated fighter pilot, journalist, politician, and dandy. He was conceited, eccentric, called himself the greatest Italian...
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