Clik here to view.
Jean-Louis Barrault
French actor, director and mime artist Jean-Louis Barrault (1910-1994) was a giant of both the classical and avant-garde theater in France. He also acted in nearly 50 films, associating with such great...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Françoise Rosay
Françoise Rosay (1891-1974) was the grand old lady of the French cinema. Her most famous films were La kermesse heroïque (1935) and Pension Mimosas (1936), both directed by her husband, Jacques...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Karin Dor
German actress Karin Dor (1938) became popular in the 1960s playing heroines in Edgar Wallace and Karl May films. 'Winnetou’s greatest love' was also the first German Bond girl. After appearing in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nita Raya
Beautiful Nita Raya (1915-2015) was a French dancer, singer and actress. She was a lead dancer at the Folies-Bergère. For ten years, she was the companion of Maurice Chevalier.French postcard by EPC,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ingmarssönerna (1919)
My partner Ivo Blom recently visited Sweden and found in a Stockholm shop this complete series of postcards of Ingmarssönerna (1919), also known as Dawn of Love and Sons of Ingmar. This film was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dominique Boschero
Among cult film fans, French actress Dominique Boschero (1934) is famous for her roles in dozens of Giallos and Spaghetti Westerns. The gorgeous brunette appeared in a surprisingly large amount of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: A Night at the Opera
Nowadays, you can enjoy a night at The Metropolitan Opera in New York in your local cinema. In December 2006, The Met started a series of performance transmissions shown live in high definition in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marius Goring
English stage and film actor Marius Goring (1912-1998) is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brigitte Mira
German actress Brigitte Mira (1910-2005) worked in both theatre and film. During the 1970s, she was one of the stars of the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Mira won several awards. She became an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ulla Jacobsson
Swedish film and stage actress Ulla Jacobsson (1929-1982) achieved international fame with a nude scene in her second film, Hon dansade en sommar/One Summer of Happiness (1951). Another highlight was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mariella Lotti
Blonde Italian film actress Mariella Lotti (1921–2006) played leading ladies in a number of Fascist era and post-war films. The refined beauty quickly became one of the most popular Italian divas of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru (1918)
Today, EFSP presents another film special on a classic of the silent Scandinavian cinema. Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru/The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) is again directed by the Swedish maestro Victor...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ornella Muti
Beautiful Italian actress Ornella Muti (1955) often appeared in sexy Italian comedies and dramas, but she also worked for such major European directors as Marco Ferreri, Francesco Rosi and Volker...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Roundabout
Let's play, this Postcard Friendship Friday. Do you know the French film La Ronde? It's a film directed in 1950 by Max Ophüls and based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play Reigen. The film title is often...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sarah Bernhardt
French vedette Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) has been referred to as 'the most famous actress in the history of the world'. She made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon highly in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Michael Ande
German actor Michael Ande (1944) was a well-known child star of the German cinema during the 1950s. Nowadays he is best known for his role as in the West German Krimi TV series Der Alte/The Old Fox...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Alexandra Stewart
Canadian actress Alexandra Stewart (1939) started her film career in the French comedy Les Motards (1958), and has since then enjoyed a steady career in both French- and English-language films. Among...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Juliette Gréco
French Juliette Gréco (1927) is a legendary actress and chanson singer. In the post-war years, the black-dressed beauty was the muse of the existentialists of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Later she became...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Une grande fille toute simple (1948)
Une grande fille toute simple/Just a Big Simple Girl (Jacques Manuel, 1948) is a French romantic comedy in which the line between artifice and reality is blurred. Beautiful Madeleine Sologne played the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Elga Brink
Blonde German actress Elga Brink (1906-1986) starred in many silent comedies since the middle of the 1920s, often directed by her partner Georg Jacoby. She also starred in dramatic productions such as...
View Article