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Francine Mussey
French film actress Francine Mussey (1897-1933) appeared in several French and German films. Her career began in the silent film era of the 1920s and ended in 1933 when she committed suicide by...
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Fanfare (1958)
During the Netherlands Film Festival, EFSP presents the Unofficial Dutch Film Star Postcards Festival. One of the classics of the Dutch cinema is the comedy Fanfare (Bert Haanstra, 1958). The film was...
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Mireille Darc (1938-2017)
Last Monday, 28 August 2017, French actress Mireille Darc passed away in Paris. She was Alain Delon's longtime costar and companion. She usually played comedic roles or the ‘cool blonde’ in thrillers,...
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Il tamburino sardo (1915)
On the last two Thursdays, we did posts on Naufragio/Shipwreck (Umberto Paradisi, 1915) and Il piccolo scrivano fiorentino/The little scribe from Florence (Leopoldo Carlucci, 1915). Both belonged to a...
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer, pianist, record producer, and occasional actor (Tommy!). He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter...
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Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst, Part 5
In the fifth post on Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst, we focus on what happedned in the German studios like the glass house of the pioneering Eiko film. Pictures of the gigantic forest set for Fritz...
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Basil Gill
Handsome British stage actor and film actor Basil Gill (1877-1955) was a popular matinee idol during the 1910s. His stage career included many major roles in plays of William Shakespeare but also in...
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Estella Blain
Gorgeous Estella Blain (1930-1982) was one of the sexy stars in Brigitte Bardot style of the French cinema of the 1950s. Her career lost steam during the 1960s and her life ended in tragedy.French...
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New and rare from Didier Hanson
Regularly, postcard collector Didier Hanson sends scans of his new acquisitions to EFSP. This time he found one-century-old Russian postcards of the young and unforgettable Vera Kholodnaya. Earlier...
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Blanche Montel
Blanche Montel (1902-1998) was a French actress who had a long career in French silent and sound cinema between the 1910s to the 1940s.French postcard. Photo: Film Gaumont.French postcard by...
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Triboulet (1923)
Triboulet (1923) is an Italian period piece directed by actor Febo Mari for the Società Italiana Cines and the UCI. Achille Vitti played King Francis I of France, Umberto Zanuccoli played the title...
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Isobel Elsom
Isobel Elsom (1893-1981) was an English screen, stage and television actress. She usually was cast as an aristocratic lady of the upper class. Elsom was directed in nine British silent films by her...
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Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst, Part 6
Today the sixth and final post on Ross Verlag's collector cards series Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst- Der Stumme Film. The silent cinema of the Weimar Republic stunned the world with films like Der...
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Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire (1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter, who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for À nos amours (1983), the...
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René Poyen
René Poyen (1908-1968) was a talented child star of the silent French cinema. He started at the age of four as the popular character Bout-de-Zan (Tiny Tim) in a popular series based on the adventures...
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Maria Fromet
Maria Fromet (1902-1967), aka 'la petite Fromet', is mostly known for her countless parts as a little girl in the films by Pathé Frères of the early 1910s.French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères....
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The Blue Diamonds: Riem de Wolff (1943-2017)
Last night, 11 September 2017, Dutch Indonesian singer and guitarist Riem de Wolff died at the age of 74. With his brother, Ruud de Wolff (1941-2000), he formed The Blue Diamonds, one of the most...
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Maurice Chevalier
The trademark of French actor, singer and entertainer Maurice Chevalier (1988-1972) was his casual straw hat, which he always wore on stage, plus a cane and a tuxedo. His signature songs included...
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Arme Thea (1919)
The Maxim Film production Arme Thea/Poor Thea (Carl Froelich, 1919) was a star vehicle for German actress Lotte Neumann. It was the first film in the 'Lotte Neumann-Serie'. Besides being one of the...
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Mina
Italian singer Mina (1940) dominated the Italian charts for fifteen years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity in Italy. The ‘Queen of Screamers’ was a staple of musicarellos (the popular...
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