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Imported from the USA: Grace Jones
Grace Jones (1948) is a Jamaican-born American singer, supermodel, and actress. Classic is her album Nightclubbing (1981) and unforgettable are her hits La Vie en Rose, Pull Up to the Bumper and I've...
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Jacqueline Delubac
Pert, French star Jacqueline Delubac (1907-1997) was the third wife of actor, dramatist and film director Sacha Guitry. She starred in eleven of Guitry’s feathery comedies in which her husband...
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Ernst Matráy
Ernst Matráy (1891-1978) was a Hungarian dancer, choreographer, actor and film director. In Berlin, he worked with Max Reinhardt and Ernst Lubitsch. Together with his wife Maria Solveg, he later did...
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Roy Black
German schlager singer and actor Roy Black (1943-1991) was Germany's most popular singer in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He appeared in several Schlager comedies.German postcard by ISV, no. K 33....
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Fred Niblo, 1925) is one of the very best Hollywood films of the silent era. Years in the making, with filming in Italy and California, and changes of script and leading...
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Paul Dahlke
German stage and film actor Paul Dahlke (1904-1984) appeared in dozens of German films of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He often played energetic characters and simple-minded souls. Dahlke was...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Pop ánd Film Stars
Here are 12 pop stars who also starred in films. Films with singers are often musicals, like the Schlager film in Germany or the Musicarello in Italy. But a few pop stars proved to be genuine actors,...
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Imported from the USA - ánd Mexico: Linda Christian
Mexican actress Linda Christian (1923-2011) was discovered by Errol Flynn. The sensuous, incredibly beautiful starlet starred with Johnny Weissmuller in his last Tarzan film, Tarzan and The Mermaids...
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Louise Lagrange
Louise Lagrange (1897-1979) was a French screen actress who had a fruitful career in French silent and sound cinema from Cendrillon (1907) onwards. In the early 1920s she played in the USA opposite...
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Jacqueline Bisset
English actress Jacqueline Bisset (1944) has been an international film star since the late 1960s. She received her first roles mainly because of her stunning beauty, but over time she has become a...
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O.W. Fischer
Austrian actor O.W. Fischer (1915–2004) was one of one of the most popular and highest-paid actors in the German-language cinema of the 1950s. 'Europe's Answer to Cary Grant' played the lead in dozens...
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L'empereur des pauvres (1921)
Just before Christmas, EFSP presents you the film special L'empereur des pauvres/The Emperor of the poor (René Leprince, 1921). This beautiful French silent film serial was an adaptation of the epic...
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Horst Janson
Horst Janson (1935) was one of Germany’s most popular film and television actors of the 1970s. He had his breakthrough when he played the first male character with long hair in German television...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Merry Christmas!
Gelukkig kerstfeest! Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! Joyeux Noël! Buon Natale! Sretan Božić! Καλά Χριστούγεννα! Boldog karácsonyt! Gleðileg jól! Nollaig Shona! Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Linksmų...
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Maurizio Arena
Italian film actor Maurizio Arena (1933-1979) appeared in 78 films between 1952 and 1978. In the late 1950s, he became popular as the poor but handsome Roman working class boy in a comedy trilogy by...
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Emmi Kosáry
Emmi Kosáry (1889-1964) was a Hungarian opera diva and operetta prima donna with a beautiful soprano voice. She also became a film actress, who worked in Hungary with the young Michael Curtiz. Kosáry...
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Michèle Morgan, Part 1
Blond actress Michèle Morgan (1920) was a classic beauty, specially noted for her feline, expressive eyes. She has been one of the most popular leading ladies of the French cinema for over five...
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Michèle Morgan, Part 2
Blond actress Michèle Morgan (1920) was a classic beauty. She has been one of the most popular leading ladies of the French cinema for over five decades. The delicate, sophisticated star was especially...
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Imported from the USA: George Chakiris
American dancer, singer and actor George Chakiris (1934) had his biggest success as Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks gang in the celebrated film musical West Side Story (1961). Later he starred with...
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Heidi Brühl
Blonde, blue-eyed Schlager singer and film star Heidi Brühl (1942-1991) was called 'the Doris Day of Germany'. In 1963 she was the German participant at the Eurovision Song Contest. In the early 1970s...
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