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The 50 most beautiful women of the century!
It's a guilty pleasure. I mean a postcard series like 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw!' (The 50 most beautiful women of the century!) series by P-Magazine was a typically 20th-century fad. But of...
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La Belle et la Bête (1946)
The surrealistic fairytale La belle et la bête/Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, René Clément, 1946) is a classic of French cinema. Josette Day stars as Belle and Jean Marais in a triple role as the...
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Directed by John Huston
American director, screenwriter and character actor John Huston (1906-1987) was a Hollywood titan for more than five decades. His debut was the hardboiled mystery The Maltese Falcon (1941) which turned...
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Melita Petri
Melita Petri (?-?), aka Melitta Petri, started out as operetta singer in the early 1910s. Between 1915 and 1919 she had a short but intense film career in German silent cinema, often in comedies by...
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Cécile 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 kitten. In 1949 she was discovered by noted filmmaker Henri-Georges...
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Woody Allen
American actor-writer-director Woody Allen (1935) is best known for his romantic comedies Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979). He has written and directed over 50 films and has written numerous...
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Körkarlen (1921)
Victor Sjöström's poetic and touching Körkarlen/The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921) is considered by many film critics the best Swedish film of all time. The silent masterpiece is one of...
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Written by Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a French writer, poet, essayist and statesman and is considered one of the most important and influential French Romantic authors of the 19th century. He wrote novels,...
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Quadrophenia (1979)
Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, 1979) is a British musical film based on the concept album 'Quadrophenia' (1973) by British rock band The Who. The film is a reflection of proto-punk, pre-Thatcher Britain...
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Harry Carey
American actor and cowboy Harry Carey (1878-1947) was one of the silent film's earliest superstars. Carey often played in films by D.W. Griffith and starred in John Ford's feature debut, Straight...
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Dary Holm
Dary Holm (1897-1960) was a German silent cinema actress. She was the film partner of Harry Piel in several adventure films.German collectors card by Ross Verlag in the series 'Vom Werden deutscher...
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Photo by Lucienne Chevert
Paris-based photographer Lucienne Chevert (1911-1982) portrayed dozens of French stars of the post-war period. She was the associate of the famous photographer Sam Lévin.Françoise Arnoul. French...
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Al Jolson
Russian-born, American singer and actor Al Jolson (1886-1950) was a popular entertainer on stage, radio and film. After great Broadway successes, he achieved particular fame with his title role in The...
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Three Swedish silent films: Thomas Graals bästa barn (1918), Mästerkatten i...
During the heydays of the silent Swedish cinema, Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström and John W. Brunius were three of the most prominent directors. They produced many outstanding silent films, including...
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Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Austrian-American film director Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) is known as a great stylist, as the director of the prototypical Hollywood gangster film, Underworld (1927), and especially as the...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) is a dazzling musical comedy directed by Howard Hawks and starring Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell and Charles Coburn. The film is based on the 1949 Broadway musical of the...
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John Bunny
American actor and comedian John Bunny (1863-1915) was considered the first true comedy star of the early American silent film era. He acted in over a hundred short comedies at Vitagraph, often with...
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VerzamelJaarbeurs revisited: Paul’s choice
Last weekend, you could find us at the autumn edition of the VerzamelJaarbeurs 2022, the International Collectors Fair in Utrecht. VerzamelJaarbeurs is Europe's biggest vintage event. Hundreds of...
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Riso amaro/Bitter Rice (1949)
The Italian melodrama Riso amaro/Bitter Rice (1949) was a product of the Neo-Realism movement of the 1940s. The film was written and directed by Giuseppe De Santis and produced by Dino De Laurentiis...
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Robin Williams
American comedian and actor Robin Williams (1951-2014) began his career in the mid-1970s as a stand-up comedian in comedy clubs in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Williams was known for his many...
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