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Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)
Singer, actor, composer, author, and producer Harry Belafonte (1927-2023), who passed away on Monday 25 April 2023, was one of the most successful African-American artists in history. In 1954, he...
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Madagascar (2005)
Madagascar (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, 2005) is a computer-animated film by DreamWorks Animation about some zoo inhabitants who try to escape and start making a living on the African island of...
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La Collectionneuse: Loretta Young
Loretta Young was probably one of the loveliest female stars from the golden age of Hollywood, with her beautiful eyes, high cheekbones, full lips and radiant smile. She was also regarded as one of the...
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George Raft
American actor George Raft (1901-1980) was born and grew up in a poor family in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. With his dark good looks and sharp...
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Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe (1922–1959) is still a legendary idol of French cinema. He was adored for his good looks, but Philipe was also a very talented actor. He was sought out by France's preeminent directors...
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Photo by Hämmerer
Arthur (or Artur) Hämmerer was a now-forgotten portrait and still photographer and painter from the Nazi period. From 1935 on, he was one of the most prominent photographers who worked for the Ufa....
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Emma Gramatica
Emma Gramatica (1874-1965) was a ‘monstre sacré’ of the Italian stage, but she also played many old ladies in Italian films from the 1930s to the 1950s. She was the sister of the equally famous Irma...
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Photo by Sciutto
Gigi Sciutto was a famous Genovese photographer in the early 1900s. He supposedly shot the first film footage of Genova around 1897. His brother Carlo continued the family's photo studio for 40 years,...
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Fantasia (1940)
Walt Disney's Fantasia (James Algar, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen, a.o., 1940) is a collection of seven animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music. It was the...
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was the 'Father of Pop Art' with his silk-screened pictures of Campbell's Soup cans and distorted images of Marilyn Monroe. He started directing films and most of his early work...
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Mary Miles Minter
Mary Miles Minter (1902-1984) was an American silent screen actress with a trademark innocent appearance. Her most famous film was Anne of Green Gables (1919). After the scandalous death of director...
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Jean Paul
Little is known about the actor Jean Paul or Jean-Paul (?-?). The comedian was mainly active in the German theatre but he also sporadically appeared in short German films during the silent era. German...
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Cinerama
Cinerama is the brand name for a widescreen film system operating through three synchronised 35mm projectors in front of a large, curved projection screen. It is also the name of the company founded to...
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Felix Bressart
German stage and screen actor Felix Bressart (1892–1949) had to flee Germany after the Nazis seized power in 1933. He continued his film career in Austria and later in the US, where he became a popular...
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Eleonora Duse
Italian diva Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) was one of the greatest stage actresses of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She mostly embodied suffering but strong-willed female characters. Her acting was...
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Pocahontas (1995)
Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg, 1995) was the 33rd Disney animated feature film and is loosely based on the life of the Native American woman of the same name. The American animated musical...
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Maria Corvin
Maria Corvin aka Mary Corwyn aka Mary Corwin and Maria Corvin (1895-?) was a Polish actress, active in Italian silent film. Italian postcard by Ed. Società Anonima, Bettini, Roma, no. 265. Photo:...
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Bob Hope
British-born, American Comedian Bob Hope (1903-2003) started his career which spanned nearly 80 years, onstage as a dancer and comedian. He made his film debut in Paramount follies (1938) singing...
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Charlotte 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...
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Three films starring Alexander Moissi
Albanian-Austrian Alexander Moissi (1879-1935) was one of the great European stage actors of the early-20th century. The attractive and charismatic women's idol also appeared in several silent and...
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