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Pearl White
Pearl White (1889-1938) was dubbed 'Queen of the Serials', and noted for doing her own stunts, in silent film serials such as The Perils of Pauline (1914) and The Exploits of Elaine (1914-1915). Often...
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Sevilla de mis amores (1931)
Mexican-American actor Ramon Novarro (1899-1968) was a popular Latin Lover of the 1920s and early 1930s. Sevilla de mis amores/La Sevillana (1930) was Novarro's first film direction and fully spoken...
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Sigourney Weaver
American actress Sigourney Weaver (1949) rose to international fame with her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien saga. After her breakthrough in the Science Fiction blockbuster Alien (1979), she became...
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Published by Vin Désiles
Vin Désiles is an alcohol-based tonic preparation resembling a kind of cinchona wine. The inventor was the Frenchman Alexandre Choffé. To promote his tonic a huge series of black and white postcards...
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Written by Alexandre Dumas père
Alexandre Dumas père (1802-1870) was a French dramatist and writer of mainly historical novels such as 'The Three Musketeers. He also wrote articles for newspapers and magazines and left an extensive...
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Ossi Oswalda
Ossi Oswalda (1895-1947) was one of the most popular comediennes of German silent cinema. Ernst Lubitsch became her Pygmalion, who let her play in numerous comedies between 1916 and 1920. Her...
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Three later films with Lyda Borelli: Rapsodia satanica (1917), La storia dei...
Lyda Borelli (1887-1959) was the first diva of the Italian silent cinema. Between 1914 and 1918, the fascinating film star caused a craze among female fans called 'Borellismo'. In this post, Ivo Blom...
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Anthony Delon
Former wild boy Anthony Delon (1964) is the son of screen idol Alain Delon and film actress Nathalie Delon. The handsome French-American actor was first better known as a jet setting playboy than as a...
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La nascita di Salomè (1940)
The Italian-Spanish film comedy La nascita di Salomè/The birth of Salome (Jean Choux, 1940) was produced by Augusto Turati and Andrea Robilant for the company Stella Film. The script was based on a...
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
American Science Fiction film The Matrix Reloaded (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 2003) is the second part of the Matrix trilogy. Like the previous part and the third part, it was written and...
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Memorable Moustaches
Soup strainer. Lip rug. Face lace. Mouth mane. Call it what you want, but the moustache is a wonderful dapper accessory for a man in films. Though moustaches can easily cross the line from classy and...
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Written by Alexandre Dumas fils
Last week, EFSP had a post on Alexandre Dumas père, the French author of such classic novels as 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo'. His son, Alexandre Dumas fils (1824- 1895), was...
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María Denis
María Denis (1916-2004) was one of the most popular stars of the Italian cinema under the Fascist rule. Very successful were her Telefoni Bianchi films of the 1930s. Charges of collaboration tarnished...
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Three early films with Italia Almirante: Cabiria (1914), Tua per la vita...
Italia Almirante (1890-1941) or Italia Almirante Manzini became one of the divas of the Italian silent cinema with Cabiria (1914). She worked with some of the most important Italian directors of the...
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John Barrymore
John Barrymore (1882-1942) was an American stage and screen actor whose rise to superstardom and subsequent decline is one of the legendary tragedies of Hollywood. A member of the most famous...
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Taxi Driver (1976)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) is one of my favourite films. When I first saw the film I was shocked by its realism and mesmerised by its strong acting, especially by Robert De Niro and Jodie...
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Published by Int. Filmpers
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dutch publishing house Int. Filmpers in Amsterdam issued a number of postcards in black and white of film stars and famous musicians, and later also followed TV...
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Written by Émile Zola
In our series 'Written by ...' today a post with postcards of stage and screen adaptations of the novels by French author Émile Zola (1940-1902). He is considered the most important representative of...
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Ben Gazzara
Ben Gazzara (1930-2012) was an American actor and television director, known for such classic films as Anatomy of a Murder (1959). He turned to television in the 1960s but made a big-screen comeback in...
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Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930-2022)
Today, Jean-Louis Trintignant, died. He was one of the most gifted French actors of the post-war era. He starred in more than 100 films and enjoyed international acclaim with films like Et Dieu... créa...
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