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Geneviève Félix
Geneviève Félix (1901-?) was a French actress who had a brief but successful career in the silent cinema. After being a regular actress of Georges Champavert and Jean Kemm, she starred in the Victor...
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Willy Fritsch
From the middle of the 1920s on, charming Willy Fritsch (1901-1973) replaced Bruno Kastner and Harry Liedtke as the darling of the female cinema goers in Germany. Fritsch became the immensely popular...
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Un long dimanche de fiancailles (2004)
Un long dimanche de fiançailles/A Very Long Engagement (2004) is a French romantic war film, co-written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a...
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Jenny Hasselqvist
Jenny Hasselqvist (1894-1978) was a Swedish ballet dancer and actress who starred in silent Swedish films by Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjöström. She also worked in Germany with Ernst Lubitsch and...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: The Lubitsch Touch
German-American director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) had the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director. His films were promoted as having ‘the Lubitsch touch.’ In the...
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Imported from the USA: Betty Amann
Dark-haired German-American actress Betty Amann (1905-1990) started her film career in Hollywood, but director Joe May and producer Erich Pommer discovered her for the German cinema. Her typical role...
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Ève Francis
Belgian born actress Ève Francis (1886-1980) was the star of the French impressionist cinema, in particular of the films by Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc. Less known is that she was an active...
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Faust (1926)
Recently my good friend and mentor gerda mentink (1941-2015), formerly the cultural motor of the Goethe-Institut Amsterdam, suddenly died. In loving memory of her, I share these beautiful postcards of...
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Yoka Berretty (1928-2015)
Last Saturday, Dutch singer and actress Yoka Berretty passed away. She started her career as a glamorous starlet in Italian films. Back in the Netherlands she appeared in several films and TV...
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Agnes Esterhazy
Hungarian film actress (Gräfin) Agnes Esterhazy (1891-1956) worked mainly in the silent cinema of Austria and Germany. The countess appeared in more than 30 films between 1920 and 1943.German postcard...
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Das Mirakel (1912)
Das Mirakel (The Miracle) is a German play written by Karl Vollmöller in 1911. That same year Max Reinhardt staged a spectacle-pantomime in Berlin in 1911. Later, three films were made. But for which...
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Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave (1937) is one of the great actresses of her generation. She started her career in the late 1950s and went on to win the Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Tony awards. On screen, she has...
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Gabriele Ferzetti (1925-2015)
On Wednesday 2 December 2015, Italian actor Gabriele Ferzetti passed away, aged 90. He had more than 160 credits to his name across film, television and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s...
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Imported from the USA: Dorothy Hyson
American actress Dorothy Hyson (1914–1996) led a successful stage and film career in London. Noted for her great beauty and striking looks, the songwriters Rogers and Hart dedicated their song, The...
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Willi Forst
Charming Austrian actor Willi Forst (1903-1980) was a darling of the German-speaking public. He was also one of the most significant directors, producers, and writers of the Wiener Filme, the light...
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Renée Sylvaire
In the early 1910s, French actress Renée Sylvaire was one of the regular actresses of the company Éclair. She played in over 60 silent films between 1909 and 1923.French postcard. Photo: Eclair....
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Dirk Bogarde
Sir Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999) was Britain's number one box office draw of the 1950s, gaining the title of ‘The Matinee Idol of the Odeon’. In the 1960s, he abandoned his heart-throb image for more...
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Dunungen (1919)
The Swedish silent film Dunungen/In Quest of Happiness (Ivan Hedqvist, 1919) was based on a short story and play by Selma Lagerlöf. The stars were Renée Björling, Ivan Hedqvist himself and Ragnar...
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Marisa Allasio
Marisa Allasio (1936) was a glamorous starlet who appeared in nearly twenty pictures in the 1950s. She was nicknamed ‘The Italian Jayne Mansfield’. In 1958 her career stopped abruptly when she married...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Odd Characters
That guy... who was in that film... Know what I mean? You saw the film, forgot the leads, but kept remembering that odd face of the boss, neighbour, uncle. These funny characters were superbly played...
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