The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones is a legendary English rock band known for many popular hits, such as Paint it Black, Lady Jane, Ruby Tuesday, and (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Their singer, Mick Jagger, starred...
View ArticleSamy Frey
Esteemed and good-looking French actor Samy Frey (1937) (or Sami Frey) is best known for playing eccentric, offbeat roles in Nouvelle Vague films such as Jean Luc Godard's Bande à part/Band of...
View ArticleGudrun Hildebrandt
Gudrun Hildebrandt was a well-known German dance artist, who also appeared in a few silent films. Although she was one of the most photographed artists of her time and there are dozens of postcards of...
View ArticleLucienne Chevert
Photographer Lucienne Chevert (1911-1982) portrayed dozens of French stars of the post-war period. She was an associate of the famous French photographer Sam Lévin.Françoise Arnoul. French postcard by...
View ArticleWolfgang Lukschy
German actor Wolfgang Lukschy (1905-1983) performed in theatre, film and television. Between 1940 and 1979, he made over 75 film and television appearances. Best known is his role as gangster lord in...
View ArticleAlberto Sordi
Last year's Il Cinema Ritrovato (29 June - 6 July 2013) had a section Bigger than Life: a journey through European Cinemascope, which included Mario Monicelli's La grande guerra/The Great War (1959)....
View ArticleCharlotte Rampling
English actress Charlotte Rampling (1946) became a legend with her ice-blue eyes, diamond-cut diction and much-remarked-upon cheekbones in such controversial classics like La Caduta degli dei/The...
View ArticleKarl Beckersachs
German actor Karl Beckersachs (1886-1951) was the gallant lover in many of the early silent films of the Weimar cinema. His career fizzled out in the late 1920s and later this pioneer film actor got...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Miss Pielson
Who was Miss Pielson? We have this beautiful postcard of her, but there is no information on the net about this beautiful silent film star. So we asked this question about her identity in a 2011 post....
View ArticleWill Dohm
German film actor Will Dohm (1897–1948) appeared in more than fifty films between 1926 and 1946.German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 2760/1, 1939-1940. Photo: Endemann / Terra.Dance on the...
View ArticleNerio Bernardi
Nerio Bernardi (1889–1971) was one of the dashing heroes and gentlemen in the melodramas and diva films of the silent Italian cinema. In his long career the handsome stage and screen actor played in...
View ArticleAtelier Willinger
Hungarian-born photographer Laszlo Willinger (1909–1989) is most noted for his phenomenal Hollywood star portraits of the 1930s and 1940s. Less known is that both Willinger and his mother, photographer...
View ArticleJean-Claude Drouot
Belgian actor Jean-Claude Drouot (1938) started his acting career with a boom in the French TV series Thierry La Fronde (1963-1966) and with Agnès Varda’s controversial masterpiece Le Bonheur (1965)....
View ArticleVladimír Borský
Vladimir Borsky (1904-1962) started as a film actor of the Czech silent cinema. He then became a popular film comedy star of the 1930s and later expanded to be an actor-writer-director.Czech postcard,...
View ArticleCécile Aubry
The petite, blue-eyed blonde Cécile Aubry (1928-2010) was often seen as the predecessor of Brigitte Bardot as the French cinema's sex goddess. Her acting career was successful but brief: during the...
View ArticleAlbert Paulig
Albert Paulig (1873-1933) was a popular comedian in the German silent cinema of the 1910s and 1920s.German postcard in the Film-Sterne series by Rotophot, no. 122/2. Photo: Nicola Perscheid, Berlin....
View ArticleLaurent Terzieff
During the 1960s and 1970s handsome French actor Laurent Terzieff (1935-2010) starred in many films by noted French and Italian directors. The magnetic and politically engaged actor began his film...
View ArticleAnthony 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...
View ArticleRotophot
How did the culture of film star postcards start? There is probably not just one answer to that question, but the history of the German company Rotophot GmbH, where Heinrich Ross started his career, is...
View ArticleRoger Moore
Suave and handsome English actor Roger Moore (1927) will always be remembered as the guy who replaced Sean Connery as James Bond, but he is also our favourite Ivanhoe, Saint and Persuader on TV.Dutch...
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