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Sybille Schmitz
Beautiful German actress Sybille Schmitz (1909-1955) started her career in the era of silent cinema. With her typical face and her relaxed, slightly mysterious way of playing, she became a prominent...
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Jacqueline Porel
Jacqueline Porel (1918–2012) was a French stage and film actress, best known for her role in Henri Georges Clouzot's La Verité (1960). She was also a voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in...
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Der weiße Dämon (1932)
Hans Albers, a superstar of German cinema between 1930 and 1945 played the leading role in the Ufa production Der weiße Dämon/Dope (Kurt Gerron, 1932). The supporting cast is also interesting: Fritz...
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Paul Anka
Paul Anka (1941) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor. Anka became famous in the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s with hit songs like 'Diana' (1957), 'Lonely Boy' (1959), 'Put Your Head on My...
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Josef Peterhans
Josef Peterhans (1882-1960) was a German stage and screen actor of the Weimar period. The physically beefy actor with the massive character head and high forehead peaked in German silent cinema of the...
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Photo by Mario von Bucovich
Mario von Bucovich (1884-1947) was described as "one of the great unknown photographers of 20th Century European photography". He worked in Berlin in the 1920s and the early 1930s, where he took over...
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Bernadette Lafont
French actress Bernadette Lafont (1938-2013) appeared in several classics of the Nouvelle Vague. Original and full of contradictions, she was both sexy and rather plain, brassy and quite serious, a...
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Merle Oberon
Indian-born British actress Merle Oberon (1911-1979) had her breakthrough as Anna Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). She played leading roles in such British films as The Scarlet...
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Jean Weber
French actor Jean Weber (1906-1995) was a sociétaire (member) of the famous stage company Comédie-Française. He also appeared in several French films during the late 1920s and 1930s. French postcard by...
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Quo vadis? (1924)
One of the most spectacular films of European silent cinema was Quo vadis? (Gabriellino D'Annunzio, Georg Jacoby, 1924), based on the classic novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz. The production company, the...
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Margit Saad
On 7 August 2023, German actress Margit Saad (1929) passed away in Munich, Germany, at the age of 94. The mysterious, exotic beauty worked largely in German film and television. During the 1960s, she...
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Antonella Lualdi (1931-2023)
Yesterday, 10 August 2023, Italo-Greek Antonella Lualdi (1931) passed away. She was the fascinating leading lady of many Italian and French films of the 1950s and 1960s. Since 1949 her luminescent...
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Mercedes Brignone
Mercedes Brignone (1885-1967) was an Italian theatre, film and television actress. The peak of her career was during the silent era. Brignone was directed several times on screen by her brother, Guido...
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Directed by Howard Hawks
Director Howard Hawks (1896-1977) was one of the most celebrated American filmmakers. Ironically, he was little celebrated by his peers in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences during his...
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Ludwig Schmitz
Ludwig Schmitz (1996-1953) was a short, stocky character comedian, who often appeared as comic support in German films of the 1930s. In 1939 and 1940, he and Jupp Hussels impersonated the pair Tran und...
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Dina Galli
Dina Galli (1877-1951) was a legendary Italian comedienne who conquered the Italian stage with her flashing but gentle eyes and a particular face. She also was successful in several Italian silent and...
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Lila Lee
Lila Lee (1901-1973) was a prominent screen actress, primarily a leading lady, of the silent film and early sound film eras. Swedish postcard by Nordisk Konst, Stockholm, no. 1257. Lila Lee in Blood...
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Jeanne Boitel
Jeanne Boitel (1904-1987) was a French film actress, who was a star in the 1930s. She refused to act in films during the Occupation and distinguished herself in the Resistance during World War II,...
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Revolutionsbryllup (1928)
EFSP's co-editor Ivo Blom is in Germany, where he visits the Bonn Stumfilmtage. Tonight he attends the screening of Revolutionsbryllup/Die große Liebe/The Last Night (1929), a revolutionary drama which...
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Una Merkel
Una Merkel (1903–1986) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress. In 1930, she went to Hollywood and became a popular film actress. Two of her best-known performances are in the films...
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