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Lewis Waller
British actor Lewis Waller (1860-1915) was best known as a matinee idol in the popular romantic plays of his day. His types were the handsaome, triumphant heroes, ready to make love to every pretty...
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Julia Roberts
American actress Julia Roberts (1967) won more than 30 other acting awards including an Academy Award for her leading role in Erin Brockovich (2000) plus Oscar nominations for Steel Magnolias (1989),...
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Photo by Kiesel
Atelier Kiesel was one of the renowned photo studios of Berlin during the 1920s. Little is known about the history of Kiesel but many of the studio's portraits of elegeant Weimar film stars have been...
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The Film-Kurier Series.
The Film-Kurier postcard series was published in Great Britain during the 1930s. Film-Kurier was one of the most influential German film magazines and the first German film journal to appear daily....
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Charles Farrell
Good-looking American actor Charles Farrell (1900-1990) was a Hollywood matinee idol of the Jazz Age and Depression era. Now, he seems forgotten, but between 1927 and 1934, he formed a very popular...
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Dorothy Mackaill
Dorothy Mackaill (1903–1990) was a British-American actress, most active during the silent-film era and into the pre-Code era of the early 1930s. During the 1930s, her popularity declined and she found...
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Teodora (1921)
The Italian silent epic Teodora/Theodora (Leopoldo Carluccio, 1921) about the life of Theodora, Empress of Byzantium, who began life as a liontamer's daughter and worked her way up from courtesan to...
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More Edition Pathé Frères
In 2017, EFSP posted about two French postcard series by Edition Pathé Frères. Four brothers, Charles, Émile, Théophile and Jacques Pathé, founded the Société Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers Company) in...
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Marie Dressler
Canadian actress Marie Dressler (1868-1934) began her career in the theatre and became famous as a comedy actress. In the early sound film era, Dressler rose to become one of Hollywood's biggest stars....
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More Désiles wine, please!
Last year, we did a post on the 'Collection artistique du Vin Désiles'. Vin Désiles is an alcohol-based tonic preparation resembling a kind of cinchona wine and if you are looking for the recipe check...
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Margaret O'Brien
American actress Margaret O'Brien (1937) is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Beginning her career at age 4, O'Brien became one of the most popular child stars in...
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Maurice de Féraudy
French actor-director Maurice de Féraudy (1859-1932) was a notable actor of the Comédie-Française and a director and actor in silent cinema. In 1908-1909, he directed almost 40 shorts under the aegis...
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Tania Fedor
Tania Fédor (1905-1985) was a Monaco-born French film actress, who peaked in the early 1930s in such films as Le petit café (Ludwig Berger, 1931) with Maurice Chevalier and Fantômas (Pál Fejös, 1932)...
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S.O.S. Eisberg (1933)
S.O.S. Eisberg/S.O.S. Iceberg (Arnold Fanck, 1933) is a German-US drama film starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, and Rod La Rocque. The film which mixes elements of...
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The second Félix Potin collection
On 6 March 2023, EFSP presented a series of French vintage minicards produced for Félix Potin chocolate bars. There were three series of these collectors cards, which we will present in three posts....
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Eddie Murphy
African-American film actor Eddie Murphy (1961) began his career as a stand-up comedian. He made his television debut on Saturday Night Live. From the early 1980s, he devoted himself to acting in...
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Hermann Picha
German stage and film actor Hermann Picha (1865-1936) was very prolific in German cinema during the silent and early sound eras, appearing in over 300 short and feature films. Picha played a mixture of...
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Directed by Jean Cocteau
French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was one of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century. He is best known for his novels...
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Mia Pankau
Mia Pankau (1891-1974) was a star of the German silent cinema. Most of her films were directed by her husband, Jaap Speyer. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1031/1, 1927-1928. Photo: Atelier Balázs,...
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Ultus (1915-1917)
A man called Ultus is robbed and left for dead in the desert, but he returns from Hell and becomes an implacable avenger. Ultus was the creation of British director George Pearson, who worked in the...
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