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Photo by Riccardo Bettini - bis
Twice before, EFSP did a post about the wonderful, sepia postcards by Roman publisher Edizione Sociéta Anonima Italiana Bettini. Cavaliere Dottore Riccardo Bettini was the photographer for all...
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Else Eckersberg
Else Eckersberg (1895-1989) was an actress in Max Reinhardt's theatre. She also had a film career in German silent film in the 1910s.German postcard by Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm.no. 7754....
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Nils Asther
Good-looking Swedish actor Nils Asther (1897-1981) was an intense star of silent European cinema. He was labelled ‘the male Greta Garbo’. In Hollywood, he played the leading man to divas like Pola...
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Jutta Hoffmann
German actress Jutta Hoffmann (1941) has appeared in more than 40 films and television shows since 1961. She was one of the best-known actresses in the GDR from the end of the 1960s and has been one of...
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The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956) was director and producer Cecil B. DeMille's last and most successful film, a partial remake of his 1923 silent film of the same title. It was filmed on location in Egypt,...
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Georges Wague on stage
Georges Wague (1874-1965) was a French mime, teacher and silent film actor who performed in more than forty films between 1907 and 1922. We published before about Wague's films, but this post focuses...
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Jacques Tati
French actor, comedian and film director Jacques Tati (1907-1982) was best known as the taciturn, gesticulating, maladjusted Monsieur Hulot, stumbling through the contemporary, mechanised world. He...
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Liam Neeson
Northern Irish actor Liam Neeson (1952) appeared in 140 films and television productions since his debut in Pilgrim's Progress(1978). He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Oskar...
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Photo by Civirani
Italian photographer Carlo Civirani (?-?) belonged to the group of Roman studio photographers which also included Pinto, Villoresi and d'Alessandri. He photographed many Italian film actors of the...
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Collection Felix Potin, Part 1
Ivo Blom acquired a large series of vintage collectors mini-cards produced for Félix Potin chocolate bars. There were three series, which we will present in three posts. The first series focused on...
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Anita Berber
Expressionistic dancer and film actress Anita Berber (1899–1928) challenged many taboos during the Weimar period. With her drugs and alcohol addictions, her scandalous hotel orgies and her bisexual...
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Lois Wilson
Lois Wilson (1894-1988) was an American screen and stage actress who played in about 150 silent films. She was directed by Lois Weber, William C. de Mille and James Cruze. She was often cast as the...
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L'homme aux trois masques (1920)
L'Homme aux trois masques (Emille Keppens, 1920) was a French serial in 12 episodes by the company Eclair. A young and dynamic engineer, Julien Marsac (André Marnay), is innocently judged for murder....
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Marcel Amont (1929-2023)
On Wednesday, 8 March 2023, French Singer and actor Marcel Amont (1929) passed away. He enjoyed considerable success during the 1960s and 1970s. Amont embodied the dynamic, cheerful and light...
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Russell Merritt (1941-2023)
American Film Historian Russell Merritt Passed Away at age 82. Merritt wrote a groundbreaking dissertation on D.W. Griffith, co-wrote two books on the early work of Walt Disney and was a fan of...
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Photo by Trevisani
Italian photographer Paolo Trevisani was based in Bologna and his studio was active between 1900 and ca. 1930. Little is known about his biography. In the 1910s, Trevisani started to make photo...
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Intimidades cinematograficas
Ivo Blom loves to collect small Spanish collector cards from the 1910s and 1920s. They present many film stills of little-known and famous films of the era. One of the series he collects is...
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Werner Fuetterer
At 18, handsome German actor Werner Fuetterer (1907-1991) was discovered to play the young lover in a series of silent films. For more than four decades he went on to work as a supporting actor in...
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Vladimir Gajdarov
Ukrainian actor Vladimir Gajdarov (1893-1976), in Germany known as Wladimir Gaidarow, began his film career in Russia before the October Revolution. Later he became a popular star in German and French...
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Four early Italian films: Iris (1914), La corsa all'abisso (1914), 'La dama...
EFSP presents today four Spanish collectors card series for early Italian silent films. The four films were made by different studios: Iris (Achille Consalvi, 1914) was produced by Aquila Films, La...
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