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Maria Schell
Pretty, wide-eyed Austrian leading lady Maria Schell (1926-2005) became one of the first film idols of the European post-war generation. With her 'smile under tears', she appeared in dozens of German...
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Ann Blyth
American actress and singer Ann Blyth (1928) was often cast in Hollywood musicals, but she was also successful in dramatic roles. Her performance as Veda Pierce in Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)...
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Greta Garbo: the silent films
Her triumph with Anna Christie (1930) turned Greta Garbo into one of the brightest MGM stars of the early sound period. Throughout the 1930s, she remained one of Hollywood's idols with her performances...
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Greta Garbo: the sound films
Swedish-born Greta Garbo (1905-1990) was one of the greatest and most glamorous film stars ever produced by the Hollywood studio system. She was part of the Golden Age of the silent cinema of the 1920s...
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The Choice of Alina Deaconu
Today, we have a special guest post at European Film Star Postcards! Here below you find 12 postcards from the collection of Alina Deaconu from Bucharest in Romania. She selected for us her favourite...
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Fantômas (1913)
Fantômas/Fantomas (Louis Feuillade, 1913) was the first of the five episodes of the mastermind criminal serial Fantômas (1913-1914), produced by Gaumont and based on the eponymous stories by Pierre...
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Gunther Philipp
Austrian film actor Gunther Philipp (1918-2003) appeared in 147 mostly German films and TV productions, mainly in comic roles. Philipp also wrote 21 film scripts and was a physician, a successful...
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Michel Simon
Swiss actor Michel Simon (1895-1975) was a popular and beloved star of the French cinema and stage. His larger-than-life personality, impeccable comic timing and great repertoire were seen in more than...
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Rosalind Russell
American actress Rosalind Russell (1907-1976) was best known for her portrayals of confident female characters in Hollywood comedies. Russell won five Golden Globe awards during her career and received...
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Photo by Mac Walten, Berlin
Mac Walten (1872–1936) was a stage and artist photographer in Berlin in the 1910s and 1920s. His real name was Max Gruenthal. There was hardly an actor, dancer or singer in Weimar who did not stand in...
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Adele Mara
Adele Mara (1923-2010) was an American actress, singer, and dancer, who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s and on television in the 1950s and 1960s. During the 1940s, the blonde actress was...
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Kees Brusse
Dutch actor and film director Kees Brusse (1925–2013) appeared in over 50 films and TV films from 1936 on. He starred in the Dutch film classic Dokter Pulder zaait papavers/Doctor Pulder Sows Poppies...
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Juve versus Fantômas (1913) and La Mort qui tue (1913)
Juve versus Fantômas/Juve contre Fantômas (Louis Feuillade, 1913) and Fantomas, La Mort qui tue/The Dead Man Who Killed (Louis Feuillade, 1913) were the second and third of the five episodes of the...
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Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022)
French film director and screenwriter Jean-Luc Godard (1930) passed away today, 13 September 2022. He was one of the most important members of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave). Godard first received...
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Robert Walker
Between 1939 and 1951, American actor Robert Walker (1918-1951) played in about twenty films. He starred in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Strangers on a Train (1949) as the madman who...
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Trude Marlen
Trude Marlen (1912-2005), was a curly-locked Austrian leading lady of the 1930s. From 1933 until the 1940s, she made mostly light entertainment films as a Ufa star, in which Willi Forst was often her...
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Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze (1952-2009) was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He had his big break with a starring role in the hit Dirty Dancing (1987). Swayze scored big again with a tough-guy role...
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The white horse
The white horse is an archetype that holds cultural and symbolic significance. It can mean heroism, spiritual enlightenment, and the triumph of good over evil. I found several postcards of female stars...
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Dorothy Sebastian
Dorothy Sebastian (1903-1957) was a US actress who rose to fame in the last days of silent cinema.Dutch postcard, no. 146. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions,...
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Nicola Maldacea
Nicola Maldacea (1870-1945) was an Italian actor, comedian and songwriter. Before the First World War, he was one of the most popular vaudeville and café chantant performers of Naples. He was beloved...
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