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Dominique Wilms
Belgian actress Dominique Wilms (1930) was the glamorous and sexy femme fatale of many French action films of the 1950s and 1960s, often opposite Eddie Constantine. Many of these ‘Euro Noirs’ are...
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Alwin Neuss
German actor and director Alwin Neuss (1879-1935) started his film career at the pioneering Nordisk studio in Denmark. He was known for playing Sherlock Holmes in a series of silent films during the...
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Ratatouille (2007)
The delightful Ratatouille (2007) is a computer-animated film, directed by Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava. A sewer rat named Remy has sophisticated taste buds and desperately wants to become a gourmet chef....
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Helmut Berger (1944-2023)
Today, 18 May 2023, Austrian film and television actor Helmut Berger (1944) passed away. He is famous for his work with Italian director Luchino Visconti. For his performance as King Ludwig II of...
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Maria Casarès
María Casares (1922-1996) was a Spanish-French actress and one of the most distinguished stars on the French stage. She was usually credited in France as Maria Casarès. French postcard by Editions...
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Van Heflin
Van Heflin (1908-1971) was an American theatre, radio and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s Heflin had a string of roles as a leading...
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Christophe Lambert
French, American-born actor Christophe or Christopher Lambert (1957) is known for his good looks, gravelly, raspy voice and his unsettling eyes. His best-known roles are Tarzan, Lord of the Apes in...
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Bellissima! Italian starlets of the 1950s
Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Sophia Loren, and Claudia Cardinale were among the best-known women in Italy in the 1950s and early 1960s. Thanks to their films, Rome became again one of the film...
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Alice Hechy
German actress and singer Alice Hechy (1893-1973) appeared in some 30 films during the silent and early sound era. Later she mainly appeared on stage and on the radio. German postcard by Photochemie,...
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Angelo Musco
Angelo Musco (1872–1937) was an Italian stage and screen actor. He was known for his comic abilities as well as for his carefully drawn psychological portraits. Italian postcard by Edizone Bettini, no....
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Liebe (1927)
Austrian star Elisabeth Bergner was one of Germany’s most important theatre stars of the 1920s andwas also very successful in Weimar cinema. She starred in Liebe/ Love (1927), directed by Paul Czinner,...
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Hanna Schygulla
German actress and chanson singer Hanna Schygulla (1943) was the icon of the New German Cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s. Schygulla was Rainer Werner Fassbinder's muse and anti-star, and over 12...
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Don Alvarado
Don Alvarado (1900-1967) was one of Hollywood's Latin Lovers in the mould of Rudolph Valentino. Suave and swarthy, he played a number of starring roles that relied on his Latin good looks and masculine...
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Sandra Milowanoff
Sandra Milowanoff (1892-1957), also written as Milovanoff or Milonavow, was a Russian actress who fled her country after the Revolution in 1917 and became a French citizen. She was a star of the French...
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22 Photochemie postcards
During the First World War, several German publishers started to make 'Film Sterne' (film Star) postcards with a focus on German cinema. One of these publishers was Photochemie in Berlin a company that...
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Francis X. Bushman
Francis X. Bushman (1883-1966) was an American film actor and director, who was nicknamed the 'King of the Movies'. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He...
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Francesca Bertini
Francesca Bertini (1892-1985) was a majestic diva of Italian silent cinema. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, she often played the 'femme fatale', with men devouring eyes, glamorous...
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Doña Juana (1928)
Weimar cinema was influenced by the profoundly sensitive acting of Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner (1897-1986). She specialised in the bisexual type that she portrayed in both stage and film roles....
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Isa Barzizza (1929-2023)
Italian actress Isa Barzizza (1929-2023) was considered one of the most important interpreters of the Italian revue, cinema, and television. On 28 May, she passed away in Palau, Italy, at the age of...
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Eddie Cantor
Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) was an American actor, screenwriter, producer and songwriter. After a rich Broadway career in the late 1910s and 1920s, he became a popular Hollywood star in pleasant and...
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