Agnès Laurent
Beautiful French actress Agnès Laurent (1936-2010) featured in a dozen European sexploitation films of the late 1950s and early 1960s. She was touted as 'The New French sex kitten', a rival to Brigitte...
View ArticleAnita Page
Beautiful Anita Page (1910–2008) was one of the most popular leading ladies of Hollywood during the last years of the silent screen and the first years of the sound era. According to MGM, she received...
View ArticleDirected by Mauritz Stiller
Director Mauritz Stiller (1883-1928) was next to Victor Sjöström, the greatest director of Swedish cinema's golden age. He wrote and directed 51 silent films since 1912. When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
View ArticleAdele Jergens
Glamorous Adele Jergens (1917-2002) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s who was often cast in B-films as blonde floozies and burlesque dancers.British card. Photo: Columbia. Publicity...
View ArticleA Sainted Devil (1924)
Rudolph Valentino's silent drama A Sainted Devil (Joseph Henabery, 1924), produced by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, is now considered a lost film. This post is the second of three specials on films...
View ArticleEugen Burg
Eugen Burg (1871-1944) was a German actor, writer and film director. He appeared on many stages in Germany and Austria and often worked with his good friend Max Reinhardt. From 1915, he acted in and...
View ArticleMax Mack
German film actor and director Max Mack (1884-1973) was one of the pioneers of German silent cinema. From 1912 until the end of the First World War, Mack was one of the most productive filmmakers. His...
View ArticleBelinda Lee
English actress Belinda Lee (1935-1961) was a knock-out peroxide starlet who became an authentic brunette star. After a scandal, Rank terminated her contract. Lee moved to Italy where the industry...
View ArticleGeorge Clooney
George Clooney (1961) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer with more than thirty film awards and nominations to his name. Clooney gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug...
View ArticleDirected by Victor Sjöström
Director and actor Victor Sjöström (1979-1960) was famous for his poetic and touching epics, such as Ingeborg Holm (1913), Terje Vigen/A Man There Was (1916) - by then the most expensive Swedish film...
View ArticlePeter Finch
Peter Finch (1916-1977) was a British film and theatre actor who became a film star appreciated by critics and audiences alike from the 1950s onwards. Finch received the first of his two Best Actor...
View ArticleThe Eagle (1925)
This is the last of our three films specials about the work of Rudolph Valentino. The Eagle (Clarence Brown, 1924) is an American adventure film set in Imperial Russia under the reign of Catherine II....
View ArticleLia Eibenschütz
Lia Eibenschütz (1899-1985) was an attractive German singer, pianist and film actress who peaked in the German silent cinema during the 1920s. She often appeared as the enamoured young woman or elegant...
View ArticleJack Lemmon
Versatile and beloved American actor Jack Lemmon (1925-2001) was a virtuoso in both comedy and drama. He initially acted on TV before moving to Hollywood, cultivating a career that would span decades....
View ArticleIngrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) was ‘Sweden's illustrious gift to Hollywood’. In the 1940s, the fresh and naturally beautiful actress won three times the Oscar, twice the Emmy, and once the Tony Award for...
View ArticleChristmas with the stars
As every year: Gelukkig kerstfeest! Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! Joyeux Noël! Buon Natale! Sretan Božić! Καλά Χριστούγεννα! Boldog karácsonyt! Gleðileg jól! Nollaig Shona! Priecīgus...
View ArticleStar Wars- Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
This Christmas period is at EFSP reserved for the Star Wars saga. Like George Lucas did, we start with our posts on this epic space opera somewhere in the middle with Star Wars- Episode IV - A New Hope...
View ArticleStar Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars Episode VI...
In Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), the adventure continues that started in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). It is the fifth, but second...
View ArticleStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
George Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) is the fourth film in the Star Wars film series and set 32 years before the original trilogy, during the era of the...
View ArticleStar Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas, 2002) is situated ten years after Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, 1999). Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance...
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