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The Celebrity Autograph Series
Personally, I don't like autographs on my film star postcards. They often don't improve the image, and I don't feel closer to an actor when he or she has signed my postcard. But I know legions of fans...
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Peter Bosse
Actor, presenter and journalist Peter Bosse (1931) was a popular child star of the German cinema in the 1930s. The boy with his cheeky face made 28 films.German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 9574/1,...
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Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937) was a British actor and theatre manager. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era, and also played Hamlet a few times on the screen.British...
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Bernard Giraudeau
French actor Bernard Giraudeau (1947-2010) was with his bright blue eyes one of the most attractive but also talented stars of the French cinema. For his roles, he was twice nominated for the French...
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Wera Frydtberg
German film, television and stage actress Wera Frydtberg (1926–2008) was a star of the German cinema of the 1950s. She appeared in leading roles in Ich denke oft an Piroschka/I Often Think of Piroschka...
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Lilli Palmer
German actress and author Lilli Palmer (1914–1986) appeared in French, British, American and German films. The charming and elegant film star won such prestigious awards as the Coppa Volpi in Italy,...
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Der Übel größtes aber ist die Schuld (1918)
The title of the silent German drama Der Übel größtes aber ist die Schuld (Hubert Moest, 1918) refers to a line by Cicero, retaken by Friedrich Schiller in the closing lines of his play Die Braut von...
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Ross Verlag in colour
Ross Verlag published a series of postcards for Great Britain without the Ross Verlag name on the cards. Instead, they had the word 'Foreign' in one corner of the photo on the card. These were all...
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Angelo Ferrari
Italian actor Angelo Ferrari (1897-1945) appeared in nearly 200 films. He started his career in Italian silent films and later got a strong foothold in the German cinema.German postcard by Ross Verlag,...
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Gina Lollobrigida
Italian actress and photojournalist Gina Lollobrigida (1927) was one of Europe’s most prominent film stars of the 1950s. ‘La Lollo’ was the first European sex symbol of the post war years and she paved...
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Elsa De Giorgi
Italian stage and screen actress Elsa De Giorgi (1914-1997) worked also as a director and set designer and was a successful novelist. She had a prolific career in the Italian cinema under Mussolini,...
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Christel Bodenstein
German film and television actress Christel Bodenstein (1938) appeared in many East German (GDR) productions and is best known for her leading role as the beautiful but haughty princess in the...
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Willy Millowitsch
Willy Millowitsch (1909-1999) was a popular German stage and TV actor and the director of the Volkstheater Millowitsch in Cologne. From 1949 on, he appeared in many West-German and Austrian...
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Lorenzaccio (1918)
The Italian silent film Lorenzaccio (Giuseppe De Liguoro, 1918) was a production by Lux-Artis. Based on a story by Alfred de Musset, the film tells the story of Lorenzo de Medici. Actress Irene Saffo...
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Lux
Lux soap is now a global brand developed by Unilever, but it started as 'Sunlight Flakes' laundry soap in 1899. A year later, the name changed to 'Lux', the Latin word for 'light' and suggestive of...
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Iya Savvina
Soviet film actress Iya Savvina (1936-2011) was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990. She appeared in 30 films following her star turn as Anna Sergeyevna in Iosif Kheifets's Dama s sobachkoy/The...
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Gusti Huber
Gusti Huber (1914-1993) was an Austrian stage and film actress. She was a popular actress in the cinema of Nazi-Germany. In 1946 she moved with her American husband to the US and continued her career...
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Lilian Braithwaite
Beautiful English actress Lilian Braithwaite (1873-1948) worked primarily on the stage, but she also appeared in films like Alfred Hitchcock’s Downhill (1927).British postcard by Davidson Bros. in the...
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Willy Walden and Piet Muyselaar
Dutch comedians Willy Walden (1905-2003) and Piet Muyselaar (1899-1978), aka the ladies Snip & Snap, were the stars of the Sleeswijk Revue which filled the biggest theatres of the Netherlands...
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Jan Spitzer
East-German actor Jan Spitzer (1947) was a star of the DEFA in the late 1960s. He also worked as a pop singer and as a stage and voice actor.Big East-German card by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin,...
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