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Basil Rathbone
English actor Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) appeared both in British and Hollywood films. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70...
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) is an American Gothic Horror film directed by Tim Burton. The film is based on the short story 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' by Washington Irving, published in 1819, which gets a...
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Fred Astaire
American dancer, choreographer, singer, and actor Fred Astaire (1899-1987) was a unique dancer with his top hat and tails, his uncanny sense of rhythm, perfectionism, and innovation. He began his...
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Discina
Discina was a Paris-based film production and distribution company, established in 1938 by Michel Safra and André Paulvé. It remained active during the Occupation of France and reached its peak in the...
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Arrivederci, Il Cinema Ritrovato!
It was only last week that we saw dozens of classic and unknown films from the archives again in Bologna during Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022. In the Piazza Maggiore, we rediscovered Bernardo Bertolucci's...
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Arrivederci, Il Cinema Ritrovato! (2)
We enjoy Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022 one more time with a post about the vintage postcards Ivo Blom bought in Bologna at the Mostra Mercato dell'editoria cinematografica, the book fair of the festival. 14...
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Vera Kholodnaya
Vera Kholodnaya (1893-1919) was the first star of the Russian silent cinema. Only 26, the ‘Queen of Screen’ died of the Spanish flu during the pandemic of 1919. Although she worked only three years for...
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Nastassja Kinski
Beautiful German-born actress Nastassja Kinski (1961) has appeared in more than 60 films. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of the title character in Tess (1979) and...
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Lost Horizon (1937)
Lost Horizon (1937), starring English gentleman-actor Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt, is an unusual film in the oeuvre of the great Frank Capra. It is a philosophical fantasy that dealt with driving...
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William Powell
William Powell (1892-1984) was an American actor, whose career began in silent film. He is best known for the Thin Man film series based on the Nick and Nora Charles characters created by Dashiell...
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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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Photo by Charles Vandamme, Paris
Photographer Charles Vandamme portrayed many French film stars of the 1940s and 1950s. He was located in Paris. He was active in the Groupement National de la Photographie Professionnelle for which he...
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Mary Brian
Mary Brian (1906-2002) was an American actress and film star with dark brown curls and blue/grey eyes, who made the transition from silent films to sound films. She was dubbed 'The Sweetest Girl in...
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Georges Colin
Georges Colin (1880-1945) was a French actor, who appeared in nearly 40 silent and sound films between 1909 and 1945.French postcard in the series 'Nos artistes dans leurs expressions' by Paris sur...
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Daniel Day Lewis
Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis (1957) won the Best Actor Oscar for My Left Foot (1990), There Will Be Blood (2007) and Lincoln (2013). Day-Lewis has also received more than 90 other acting awards fort...
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Malle gevallen (1934)
Johan Kaart Jr. and Louis de Bree starred in the Dutch romantic comedy Malle gevallen/Silly situations (Jaap Speyer, 1934), produced by the Dutch film mogul Loet C. Barnstijn.Dutch postcard. Photo:...
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Melvyn Douglas
Two-time Oscar-winner Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) was one of America's finest actors and would enjoy cinema immortality if for no other reason than his being the man who made Greta Garbo laugh in Ernst...
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Photo by Suse Byk, Berlin
German photographer Suse Byk (1884-1943) was one of Berlin's leading portrait photographers in the 1920s. Between 1913 and 1938, she had her own studio for portrait, fashion and dance photography,...
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La Collectionneuse: Actresses as gypsy
Gypsy characters have been present since the beginning of the movies. For decades, they were played by non-gypsy performers but, to be honest, there were very few gypsy professional actors and...
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Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale (1922-2017) was an American actress best known for her role as confidential secretary Della Street in the television series Perry Mason (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy Award for...
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