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Bufera (1926)
In the silent Italian mountain drama Bufera/The Storm (Wladimiro De Liguoro, 1926), Rina De Liguoro plays a woman seduced and abandoned by a rude mountain man. He leaves her with a child. When finally...
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Viktor Staal
Good looking Austrian actor Viktor Staal (1909-1982) was the nice, a bit wooden star of many films of the Third Reich. Very popular were the two films in which he played the romantic interest of Zarah...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: A Star's Best Friend
New series alert! During our trip to the Pordenone Silent Film Festival earlier this month, we did a post on twelve silent cowboys. We hope you liked the idea, because we did. We already imagined...
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Imported from the USA: Elizabeth Taylor
British-American actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) began as a Hollywood child star. As an adult she came to be known for her acting talent and beauty. She had a much publicised private life,...
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Renée Björling
Renée Björling (1888-1975) was a Swedish film and stage actress, who peaked in the Swedish silent cinema, but also played small parts in Ingmar Bergman's films.Swedish postcard by Nordisk Konst,...
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Willy Birgel
German actor Willy Birgel (1891-1973) started his film career when he was already over 40. He was the charming grand seigneur of the Ufa films of the 1930s. Despite his many appearances in Nazi...
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Danièle Delorme (1926-2015)
On 17 October 2015, French actress and film producer Danièle Delorme passed away. Delorme acted in more than seventy films and television productions since 1942. She is probably best remembered for her...
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La Brière (1924)
La Brière (Léon Poirier, 1924) was a French rural film drama, based on a 1923 novel by Alphonse de Chateaubriant which had won the Prix Goncourt. The very atmospheric film, produced by the Compagnie...
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Lu L'Arronge
Little is known about Lu L'Arronge (1902-1991), who was a star of the German silent cinema, just after the First World War. The actress, who specialized in playing high-spirited teenagers, had her own...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Top Hats
New series alert at EFSP! During our trip to the Pordenone Silent Film Festival earlier this month, we did a post on twelve silent cowboys and liked the concept. So, last week we started a new series...
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Imported from the USA: Jean Seberg
American actress Jean Seberg (1938-1979) became an icon of the Nouvelle Vague with her role in Godard’s A Bout de Souffle/Breathless (1960). She appeared in over 30 films in Hollywood and Europe.French...
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Annie Girardot
French star Annie Girardot (1931-2011) was a sympathetic, perky, and talented actress. With her typical gravelly voice she appeared in many French and Italian quality films of the 1960s and 1970s....
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Maureen O’Hara (1920-2015)
Last Saturday, Irish born Maureen O’Hara, one of the icons of Hollywood’s Golden Age, has died. The feisty and fearless actress starred in John Ford’s Oscar-winning drama How Green Was My Valley...
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Maria Brockerhoff
German actress and model Maria Brockerhoff (1942) was a popular starlet and magazine pin-up in the late 1960s. Her films may be forgotten but her postcards with photos by Bernard of Hollywood are still...
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Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (1926)
The Italian-German silent film Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei/The Last Days of Pompeii (Amleto Palermi, Carmine Gallone, 1926) was one of the many adaptations of the novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)...
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Mary Kid
Mary Kid (1901-1988) was a popular actress of the Austrian and German silent cinema. She also played in two early sound films in Italy.German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 1615/1, 1927-1928....
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Boys Will Be Boys
During our trip to the Pordenone Silent Film Festival earlier this month, we did a post on twelve silent cowboys. We liked the concept. So we started a new series especially for Postcard Friendship...
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Imported from the USA: Maria Montez
Dominican film actress María Montez (1912-1951) gained fame and popularity as a tempestuous Latino beauty in Hollywood movies of the 1940s. In a series of exotic adventures filmed in Technicolor, she...
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Nora Gregor
Austrian Nora Gregor (1901-1949) was an operetta diva and a stage and film actress. Her most famous screen role was Christine de la Chesnaye in Jean Renoir's classic film La Règle du Jeu (1939). She...
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Jean Dax
Jean Dax (1879-1962) was a French actor who played in French and German films between 1909 and 1939. During the 1910s he was one of the main stars of the French silent cinema.French postcard by...
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