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Lana Morris
Lana Morris (1930-1998) was a stylish and gifted British actress who appeared in films during the late 1940s and 1950s and continued her career on stage and television. She is best known for her two...
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Margarete Schlegel
Margarete Schlegel (1899–1987) was a German theatre and film actress and soprano operetta singer active in Germany between 1919-1933. Himmler proposed her to continue her film career under the Third...
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La casa di vetro (1920)
Maria Jacobiniand Amleto Novelli star in the Italian silent melodrama La casa di vetro/The glass house (Gennaro Righelli, 1920). G.B. Falci in Milan published the postcards.Italian postcard by G.B....
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Robert Lamoureux
French actor, screenwriter and film director Robert Lamoureux (1920-2011) started as a stand-up comedian avant-la-lettre, and became a charming and funny star of the French film comedy in the 1950s....
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ASER
Italian films made during the fascist period were usually not 'fascist' in tone, although they were often nationalistic and patriotic, much like their Hollywood counterparts. Vittorio De Sica was the...
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Patrick Stewart
The career of English actor Patrick Stewart (1940) has included roles on stage, television, and film in a career spanning almost six decades. The unknown Shakespearean actor suddenly became famous as...
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Greta Garbo
On 15 April, it will be 28 years ago that the Great Garbo passed away. Swedish-born Greta Garbo (1905-1990) was one of the greatest and most glamorous film stars ever produced by the Hollywood studio...
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Silent Garbo
Her triumph with Anna Christie (1930) turned Greta Garbo into one of the brightest MGM stars of the early sound period. Throughout the 1930s, she remained one of Hollywood's idols with her performances...
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Greta Garbo's film partners
Greta Garbo famously never married, but had many lovers on screen. We selected twelve postcards with her film partners for today's post. Her favourite co-star was John Gilbert, who was her love...
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Greta Garbo in Anna Christie (1930)
Could Greta Garbo talk on film? She was part of the Golden Age of the silent cinema of the 1920s, but MGM bosses doubted in 1929 if she with her Swedish accent could survive the talkies. In her first...
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Garbo by Clarence Sinclair Bull
Portrait photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull (1896-1979) was 'The man who shot Garbo'. In 1919 producer Samuel Goldwyn hired him to make publicity stills of the stars of Goldwyn's studio. When...
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Greta Garbo: Ivo Blom's Choice
Yesterday, it was 28 years ago that Greta Garbo (1905-1990) passed away. This week we salute her and will post only her postcards. For today's post, film historian Ivo Blom selected twelve favourite...
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Collecting Garbo
The last post of EFSP's Greta Garbo week is about a series of small tobacco or cigarette cards we once found on a 'trödelmarkt'. They were produced in the early 1930s by Ross Verlag for forgotten...
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Happy 80, Claudia Cardinale!
CC was born on 15 April 1938, today 80 years ago. At 20, she made her film debut in the French-Tunisian film Goha (Jacques Baratier, 1958). Five years later, she made three classics in one year:...
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Robinne
Comédie Française actress Robinne (1886-1980) was one of the first French film stars. The peak of her film career was in the 1910s when she starred in mundane and romantic dramas by Pathé. With her...
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Finds at the International Collector's Fair
Last Sunday, we visited the International Collector's Fair in the city of Utrecht. Twice each year, this is the spot for an amazing assortment of antiques, bric-a-brac and second-hand trinkets. The...
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Ahasver (1917)
Carl de Vogt played the leading role in the German silent drama Ahasver (Robert Reinert, 1917), a three-part film on the story of the Wandering Jew, a mythical immortal man whose legend began to spread...
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Jacques Pills
French artist Jacques Pills (1906-1970) was an agreeable light singer and crooner. Before the war, he formed a successful duo with Georges Tabet. In 1959, Pills was the Monegasque entrant at the...
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Bromofoto
After the Second World War and the end of the fascist era, new publishing firms started to produce postcards in Italy. One of these firms was Bromofoto in Milano (Milan). Bromofoto started with...
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Nikita Mikhalkov
Russian actor and director Nikita Mikhalkov (1945) is the younger brother of Andrey Konchalovsk(i)y and one of the most famous Soviet/Russian filmmakers. ‘The Russian Spielberg’ won an impressive...
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