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Fantômas contre Fantômas (1914) and Le faux magistrat (1914)
Fantômas contre Fantômas/Fantomas Against Fantomas (Louis Feuillade, 1914) and Le faux magistrat/The False Magistrate (Louis Feuillade, 1914) were the fourth and fifth of the five episodes of the...
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Jany Holt
Passionate Jany Holt (1909-2005) was a red-haired French actress of Romanian origin. From the 1930s on, she had an extensive career in French cinema and theatre. She reached her zenith during the late...
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Fritz Junkermann
Fritz Junkermann (1883-1942) was a German theatre and silent film actor as well as a cabaret artist and lecture artist. He was active between 1906 and 1940 and acted in several silent films between...
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Carmen Miranda
Flamboyant Brazilian dancer, singer and actress Carmen Miranda (1909-1955) taught the world how to samba dance. Popular from the 1930s to the 1950s in Brazil and Hollywood, Miranda's most famous songs...
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It's a gift
We found many of the cards on this blog on fairs, small shops and flea markets, or in webshops like Delcampe, eBay or the Dutch equivalent, Marktplaats. Regularly, we also receive postcards from...
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Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy (1925-1971) was the most decorated US soldier of World War II. Subsequently, he was a film actor and songwriter. In the 1950s and 1960s, he enjoyed success as a performer in Westerns and...
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Bertram Wallis
Tall and handsome Bertram Wallis (1874-1952) was a renowned English actor and singer. He was a glamorous matinee idol in popular plays and musical comedies of the early 20th century. Between the two...
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La nouvelle mission de Judex (1917)
René Cresté was the hero Jacques de Tremeuse, better known as Judex, in de popular French crime-adventure serial Judex (1916-1917), directed by Louis Feuillade for Gaumont. Judex is an amazingly cool...
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La Collectionneuse: actresses posing with sunshades
Summer has ended. Let’s extend it a little bit by putting the spotlight on sunshades. Here is a selection of vintage postcards showing film actresses posing with this accessory, which was much in vogue...
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Hans Junkermann
Hans Junkermann (1872-1943) was a prolific German character comedian, noted for his gauche manner and walrus moustache. In films from 1911, including a brief 1930 sojourn in Hollywood, acting in...
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Elvis Presley
When The Beatles came to America in 1965 there was only one person they wanted to meet: Elvis Presley (1935-1977). Elvis had more multi-platinum album sales than any other performer, with twelve albums...
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Lon Chaney
We're back in Italy for Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone. The opening film is Tod Browning's The Unknown (1927) starring Lon Chaney (1883-1930), one of the most versatile and powerful actors of...
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Nanook of the North (1922) and more Inuit in the cinema
The big Sunday event of Il Giornale del cinema Muto in Pordenone is the screening in Teatro Verdi of the classic documentary Nanook of the North (1922). The American silent documentary was directed,...
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Brigitte Helm
We're in Pordenone, Italy, for Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. One of the sections is 'The Canon Revisited' and the highlight for us is Manolescu - Der König der Hochstapler/Manolescu, the Prince of...
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In Ruritania, anything is possible
The 2022 Giornate del Cinema Muto has a special programme on Ruritania, curated by Jay Weissberg. Ivo Blom made for EFSP his own selection from our collection of postcards on Ruritania in the silent...
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Febo Mari
One of the 'other events' at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 42 is the screening of a recent film by Olivier Bohler and Céline Gailleurd, Italia. Il fuoco, la cenere (2021). The male star of both Il...
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Norma Talmadge
We are in Pordenone, Italy for Le giornate del Cinema Muto. One of the highlighted stars at the festival is American actress and film producer Norma Talmadge (1894-1957). During the silent era, she was...
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
One of the sections of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto is 'Restorations and Rediscoveries'. For us, the highlight is the short American comedy Night Owls (James Parrott, 1930), one of the first sound films...
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Anny Ondra
Tonight, at the Closing Night of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the Pordenone silent film festival, The Manxman (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929) will be presented. Star of Hitchcock's last silent film by Alfred...
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Steve Reeves
Handsome, musclebound Steve Reeves (1926-2000) was an American bodybuilder and actor, who was a huge success in Hercules (1958) and other Peplum films, the Italian sword-and-sandal epics. At the peak...
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