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Charles Dullin
Charles Dullin (1885-1949) was a French actor, theatre manager and director. He was an important figure of the French non-commercial theatre of the first half of the 20th century. He also appeared in...
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Marina Berti
Italian actress Marina Berti (1924-2002) is a forgotten diva from the postwar Italian cinema. She was a popular starlet of Italian and Hollywood films in the 1940s and early 1950s – sometimes credited...
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Ernst Verebes
Hungarian actor Ernst (or Ernö) Verebes (1902-1971) was a popular and elegant matinee idol of the German cinema in the silent and early sound period. Sadly his career was broken by the Nazis.German...
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I promessi sposi (1941)
I promessi sposi/The Spirit and the Flesh (Mario Camerini, 1941) is sometimes called the Italian Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939). It's a lavishly produced historical love story, set against a...
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Sabina Sesselmann
German actress Sabina (also: Sabine) Sesselmann (1936-1998) was the beautiful blonde leading lady of some 22 European films of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Next to her short but successful acting...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: New from GDI
In the Dutch village of Noord-Scharwoude is a small but dynamic Filmmuseum, the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute (GDI). Director is our friend Egbert Barten who always shares his new postcard acquisitions...
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Jessie Matthews
Saucer-eyed, long-legged Jessie Matthews (1907-1981) was a gamine, graceful dancer, with a sweet, pure-toned singing voice, and waif-like sex appeal. She embodied 1930s style. For most of the decade,...
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Madeleine Sologne
French stage and film actress Madeleine Sologne (1912-1995) was a popular star in the late 1930s and 1940s. She became the symbol for a generation when she appeared as a modern Isolde in Jean Cocteau’s...
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Gérard Blain
French actor Gérard Blain (1930-2000) looked like a cross between Alain Delon and James Dean. With his starring role in Le Beau Serge (1958) he became an icon of the Nouvelle vague. Blain was...
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Gustav Diessl
Austrian film and stage actor Gustav Diessl (1899-1948) was the hero of the first Mountain film, Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü (1929). This film and others by prolific director G.W. Pabst made him at...
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Mères françaises (1917)
Today's film special is about the French war propaganda film Mères françaises/French Mothers (René Hervil, Louis Mercanton, 1917) with a series of postcards from Italy. Star of the film was the...
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Otto Waalkes
Frisian comedian and actor Otto Waalkes (1948) became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and films. Many of his sketches have become classics in Germany, and several of his...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: From the Small to the Big Screen
There are many examples of film stars who became TV stars. Think Joan Collins in Dynasty (1981–1989) or more recently Gérard Dépardieu in Marseille (2016), the first French original production for...
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Thin Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and heavyset American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957) were a comedy double act during the early classical Hollywood era. They became well known during the late 1920s...
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Gunnar Tolnaes
Norwegian-born actor Gunnar Tolnaes (1879-1940) conquered the Danish film market in the middle of the 1910s. His most famous performance was an Indian prince in the Danish Orientalist melodrama...
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Dany Carrel
French starlet Dany Carrel (1932) was a welcome breath of sexy exoticism in the French cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. With her bob haircut of dark reddish hair, a pair of incredible oriental eyes, and...
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Pierre Fresnay
One of the most important French stage and film actors of his era was Pierre Fresnay (1897-1975). He abandoned a career with the Comédie-Française for the challenge of the cinema, and appeared in more...
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New episode unveiled of Floris (1969)
Nearly 47 years after the broadcast of the twelfth and final episode of the legendary TV series Floris, a hitherto unknown thirteenth episode premiered last Friday. The premiere happened at Doornenburg...
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Heli Finkenzeller
German stage and film actress Heli Finkenzeller (1914-1991) had her greatest successes in popular Ufa comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. After the war she often played mother roles.German postcard by...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Film actors flying in from around the world
I like this German postcard, 'Filmschauspieler aus aller Welt'. The caption translates as 'Film actors from around the world'. Photos of film stars posing glamorously in front of airplanes was a well...
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