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Joë Hamman
This week we follow the Le Gionate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy. One of the programs is 'Beginnings of the Western: The European Production'. We generally associate the Western with the American...
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Synnöve Solbakken (1919)
This week we follow one of our favourite festivals, Le Gionate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy. One of the main films in the Scandinavia programme of the festival is the Swedish silent melodrama...
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Amleto Novelli
EFSP follows Le Gionate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone this week. A programme that fascinates us is Beginnings of the Western. The European Production. Surprisingly, all European countries seemed to...
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Billie Dove
This week EFSP follows the world’s leading international silent-film festival, Le Gionate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone in Northern Italy. For the last festival day, we chose for a post on stunningly...
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Sylvio de Pedrelli
Little known Sylvio de Pedrelli (?-?) had an extensive career in French silent cinema. Between 1918 and 1948, he appeared in nearly 30 films. He was often the third party in his films, and played...
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Viggo Larsen
Danish actor, director, scriptwriter and producer Viggo Larsen (1880-1957) was one of the pioneers of the Danish cinema. With Wanda Treumann he later directed and produced many German films during the...
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Annie Ducaux
Beautiful French actress Annie Ducaux (1908-1996) appeared in 40 film and television productions between 1932 and 1980. Ducaux was also Sociétaire (shareholder) of the prestigious state theatre La...
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Jean Rochefort (1930-2017)
Last Monday, 9 October 2016, Jean Rochefort (1930-2017) has passed away. The French actor had a successful career in the cinema that has spanned over five decades. He is best remembered for the comedy...
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Tosca (1918)
Majestic Francesca Bertini was one of the most popular divas of the Italian silent cinema. One of her great successes was Tosca (Alfredo De Antoni, 1918), based on the stage drama by Victorien Sardou...
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Fay Compton
Fay Compton (1894-1978) was an English actress from a notable acting lineage. On stage she starred in the classics as well as contemporary material. Compton played Ophelia opposite two of the most...
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Les Vedettes du Cinéma
French publishing house Éditions Filma created the Les Vedettes du Cinéma series shortly after the First World War. There are circa 70 sepia postcards in the series. We focus in this post on the...
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Michael Craig
British actor Michael Craig (1928) is known for his work in theatre, film and television both in the United Kingdom and Australia. He also worked as a scriptwriter, such as for The Angry Silence...
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Jack Trevor
British gentleman actor Jack Trevor (1890-1976) had a great career in the German and Austrian silent cinema of the 1920s. During World War II the Nazis forced him to appear in anti-British propaganda...
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Andrée Brabant
Andrée Brabant (1901-1989) was a charming French film actress whose career peaked in the silent era of French cinema. She was discovered by Abel Gance and also worked with such major directors as André...
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Feodor Chaliapin
Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938) was an international sensation and is considered as the greatest Russian singer of the twentieth century, as well as the greatest male operatic actor...
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Mata Hari (1931)
Earlier this week, the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden opened its exhibition on exotic dancer and executed spy Mata Hari (1876-1917). From the local newspapers in Friesland to the New York Times, all...
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Danielle Darrieux (1917-2017)
On Tuesday 17 October, French actress and singer Danielle Darrieux (1917-2017) passed away. She was a beautiful, international leading lady whose eight-decade career was among the longest in film...
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Quo vadis? (1913)
EFSP contributor Ivo Blom speaks today at 'Alma-Tadema: Antiquity at Home and on Screen' in London. This symposium aims to air and develop new research inspired by the exhibition Alma-Tadema: At Home...
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In Memoriam Han de Gruiter
Here at EFSP, we love all postcard collectors, but some a little bit more than others. Today we bring a salute to Han de Gruiter, a Dutch collector from The Hague. I once sold him (at Marktplaats, the...
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Les Vedettes de l'Écran
Last Saturday, EFSP had a post on the Les Vedettes du Cinéma series by French publishing house Éditions Filma. Around the time this series stopped in the early 1920s, Filma started another film star...
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