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New rares from Didier Hanson
A friend who contributes lots and lots of postcards to this site is Didier Hanson. From Spain, he regularly sends me new scans of vintage film postcards he discovered. His collection must be gigantic,...
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Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1916)
We start a new, weekly series of film specials at EFSP. Today, a post about a quite unknown Italian film from the silent era, Dagli Appennini alle Ande/From the Apennines to the Andes (1916), based on...
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Henry Krauss
French actor and director Henry Krauss (1866-1935) was a veteran of the European cinema. From 1908 on he starred in several powerful character roles in early silent films. French postcard in the Les...
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Patricia Medina
In the 1940s, voluptuous and exotic-looking British-born film star Patricia Medina (1919-2012) left for Hollywood. There she became a prolific star in melodrama’s and adventure films in the early...
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Agnes Petersen
Agnes Petersen (1904-1953?) was a star of the Danish and German silent cinema. She was the second wife of the legendary Russian-born film star and charmer Ivan Mozzhukhin.German postcard by Ross...
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Rex Gildo
German Schlager singer and actor Rex Gildo (1936-1999) was a teen idol in the 1960s and 1970s. The German Cliff Richard showed durability. In a career of 40 years, he sold around 39 million records and...
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Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Hiller DBE (1912-2003) was an English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. She is best remembered as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion...
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Fosco Giachetti
Italian actor Fosco Giachetti (1900–1974) was the leading man in several fascist propaganda films of the 1930s and 1940s.Italian postcard by ASER. Photo: Bassoli, Tirrenia.Fosco Giachetti in the film...
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Unter Geiern (1964)
As the second post in our new weekly series of film specials, today the Euro-Western Unter Geiern/Among Vultures (Alfred Vohrer, 1964), based on one of the Winnetou novels by Karl May. It starred...
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Carla Del Poggio
Carla Del Poggio (1925-2010) was the female star of Federico Fellini’s bittersweet debut Luci del varietà/Variety Lights (1950). In the 1940s and 1950s she also starred in films by such other famous...
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Maurice Ronet
French leading man Maurice Ronet (1927-1983) was also a director and screenwriter. In the 1950s and 1960s the smooth and slick actor was a favorite of such influential directors as Louis Malle and...
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Nils Chrisander
Swedish actor and film director Nils Chrisander (1884-1947) made his first screen appearances in German and Swedish silent films in the mid-1910s. In 1916, he was the first Phantom of The Opera of the...
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Martin Held
Martin Held (1908–1992) was a German stage, television and film actor. His film career started when he was already in his forties, but during the 1950s and 1960s Held was one of the leading stars of...
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Carola Toelle
Carola Toelle (1893-1958) was a German actress, in particular in German silent cinema of the late 1910s and early 1920s.German postcard by Ross-Verlag, Berlin-Wilm., no. 369/3, 1919-1924. Photo: Alex...
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Siegfried Breuer
Austrian stage actor Siegfried Breuer (1906-1954) made his film debut late at the age of 33, but in the next 15 years he starred as a charming bon vivant with a raised left eyebrow. Among his 50 films...
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Homunculus (1916)
The third film special in our new weekly series is about Homunculus (Otto Rippert, 1916). This silent super-serial was part of the German artificial-creature film genre, including Der Golem (1914 and...
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Richard Attenborough (1923-2014)
Yesterday, English actor, film director and producer Richard Attenborough has died. Baron Attenborough (1923-2014) won two Oscars for Gandhi in 1983. He has also won four BAFTA Awards and three Golden...
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Dolly Davis
French actress Dolly Davis (1896-1962) was a very popular comédienne in the 1920s. She was often paired with André Roanne, and they even performed in a film simply called Dolly (Pierre Colombier,...
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Dan Leno
English music hall star Dan Leno (1860-1904) was known as the ‘Funniest Man on Earth’. Short, with a wide grin, broadly comic features and a conspicuous part in his hair, he also became one of the most...
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Vera Korène
Russian born actress Véra Korène (1901-1996) played seductive spies and vamps in the French cinema of the 1930s. After a dozen films, the Nazi occupation of France cut her screen career short.French...
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