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Genia Nikolaieva
Russian-born ballet dancer and actress Genia Nikolaieva (1904–2001) worked in the Germany cinema during the 1930s. In 1938 she emigrated to the United States, where she became ‘one of the most...
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Die Fahrt ins Blaue (1919)
Henny Porten starred in the German silent comedy Die Fahrt ins Blaue/The drive into the blue (Rudolf Biebrach, 1919). Her co-star was Georg Alexander. The film was produced by Messter-film and...
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Antonella Lualdi
Italo-Greek Antonella Lualdi (1931) was the fascinating leading lady of many Italian and French films of the 1950s and 1960s. Since 1949 her luminescent beauty has graced over 90 films.German postcard...
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Photo by Studio Harcourt
From 1934 on, Studio Harcourt in Paris immortalised some of the greatest figures of the 20th century. The French dream factory produced 1,500 iconic black and-white photographs of film stars as Gérard...
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New GDI acquisition: British cigarette cards
Egbert Barten of the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute lent me some cigarette cards he recently acquired, to share with you. Earlier we did some posts on cigarette cards by Ross Verlag in Berlin, but these...
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Enrique Rivero
Enrique Rivero (1906-1954) was a Chilean actor, who peaked in late 1920s and early 1930s French cinema. He was for a time seen as the Valentino of the European cinema and became famous for his lead in...
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Ingrid Lutz
Ingrid Lutz (1924) is a retired German actress, who played spirited supporting roles in dozens of films between 1943 and 1959.German postcard by Film-Foto-Verlag, no. A 3962/1, 1941-1944. Photo:...
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Mara Lane
British-Austrian actress Mara Lane (1930) was considered one of the most beautiful models in Great Britain during the early 1950s. She appeared in more than 30 English and German language films of the...
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New Didier Hanson acquisition: Vera Karalli
My friend Didier Hanson sent me this wonderful postcard, he recently acquired. I love it very much. The picture is a still of one films by Yevgeni Bauer, who directed more than seventy silent films in...
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Ewa Krzyzewska
Polish actress Ewa Krzyzewska (1939–2003) was a beautiful and fascinating star of the East-European cinema in the 1960s. Her most famous film was also her debut, Andrzej Wajda’s masterpiece Popiól i...
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Photo by Atelier Binder
From the late 1920s through the 1930s, Atelier Binder was the largest photo studio in Europe. The star photos of this Berlin studio can be found on countless Ross Verlag postcards. Founder was...
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Georges Charlia
French actor Georges Charlia (1894–1984) played in 22 silent and sound films. He worked with such famous directors of the French avant-garde cinema as Germaine Dulac, Jean Epstein and Alberto...
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Ann Smyrner
Danish actress Ann Smyrner (1934-2016) was the glamorous star of more than 50 European B-films of the 1950s and 1960s. The blonde sex bomb spent most of her screen career in Germany. After appearing in...
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New Didier Hanson acquisition: Ivan Mozzhukhin
Last week, I did a post on a postcard from the Russian Empire which Didier Hanson had sent me. It showed a scene from Nabat/The Alarm (1917), one of the last films Yevgeni Bauer made. Star of the film...
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Zbigniew Sawan
Polish actor Zbigniew Sawan (1904–1984) starred both in silent and sound film, and was a respected stage actor in his country. He also worked as a theatre director and manager.Polish postcard by...
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Romeo and Juliet (1954)
The lavish British-Italian production Romeo and Juliet (Renato Castellani, 1954) is one of the many film adaptations of William Shakespeare's famous play of the same name. It stars Laurence Harvey as...
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Bernhard Goetzke
With his sharply featured face, high forehead and low-lying eyes, German film actor Bernhard Goetzke (1884–1964) was one of the impressive stars of the silent films of Fritz Lang. He appeared in 130...
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Photo by Martin Badekow
The work of German photographer Martin Badekow (1896–1983) has been overlooked for a long time, but his photographs from the Berlin cabarets have become emblematic images of Weimar Germany. Vintage...
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Mercedes Brignone
Mercedes Brignone (1885-1967) was an Italian theatre, film and television actress. The peak of her career was during the silent era. Brignone was directed several times n screen by her brother, Guido...
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Szöke Szakáll
Cute, chubby-jowled Hungarian actor Szöke Szakáll (1883-1955) started his film career in the German and Austrian silent cinema. From 1940 on, he became known in Hollywood as character actor S.Z....
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