04 April 2020

What we've found lately

Lately, we bought a lot of interesting postcards and collectors cards. They are quite different from each other. So for today a very diverse post at EFSP with 30 cards we recently acquired. Hope you enjoy it.

Willy Fritsch in Spione (1928)
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 33/2. Photo: Fritz Lang-Film / Ufa. Willy Fritsch in Spione/Spies (Fritz Lang, 1928).

Theodore Roberts
French postcard in the Les Vedettes de Cinéma serie by A.N., Paris, no. 21. Photo: Paramount.

Theodore Roberts (1861-1928) was an American stage and screen actor, who is known for his many parts in films by Cecil B. DeMille and his brother William.

Nikitina
French postcard by A.N., Paris, no. 11.

Alice Nikitina (1904-1978) was a Russian dancer, teacher, and opera singer. She appeared in two films, The Blue Danube (1932) and Ma femme... homme d'affaires/My Wife as a Businessman (1932).

Clive Brook and Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express (1932)
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6676/2. Photo: Paramount. Marlene Dietrich as Shanghai Lily and Clive Brook as 'Doc' Harvey in Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932).

Charlie Chaplin and Harry Myers in City Lights (1931)
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 129/7. Photo: United Artists. Charlie Chaplin and Harry Myers in City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931).

Spinelly
French postcard by FA, no. 104. Photo: Talma.

French actress Andrée Spinelly (1887-1966) was commonly known as Spinelly. Her charm was celebrated by critics. During the 1930s, Spinelly starred in a few films.

Renée Adorée
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5794/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

French actress Renée Adorée (1898-1933) appeared in Hollywood in several silent films during the 1920s. She is best known as Melisande in the successful war epic The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925) opposite John Gilbert. She died a few days after her 35th birthday.

Marion Davies
French postcard by Europe, no. 1121. Photo: MGM.

Marion Davies (1897-1961) was one of the great comedic actresses of the silent era. She starred in nearly four dozen films between 1917 and 1937.

Willy Fritsch and Lilian Harvey in Liebeswalzer (1930)
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 119/1. Photo: Ufa. Willy Fritsch and Lilian Harvey in Liebeswalzer/Love Waltz (Wilhelm Thiele, 1930).

Greta Nissen in The Wanderer (1925)
French postcard by Cinémagazine-Edition, Paris, no. 283. Photo: Paramount. Greta Nissen in The Wanderer (Raoul Walsh, 1925).

Gerda Maurus and Gustav von Wangenheim in Frau im Mond (1929)
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 113/9. Photo: Ufa. Gerda Maurus and Gustav von Wangenheim in Frau im Mond/Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang, 1929).

Esther Ralston in The Case of Lena Smith (1929)
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4329/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Paramount. Esther Ralston in The Case of Lena Smith (Josef von Sternberg, 1929).

Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel in The Only Thing (1925)
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5343/1, 1930-1931. Photo: MGM. Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel in The Only Thing (1925).

Buster Keaton
German cigarette card by Monopol Film-Bilder, no. 90.

Stone-faced Buster Keaton (1895-1966) was one of the three greatest comedians of Silent Hollywood.

Lida Baarova
German cigarette card by Ross Verlag in the 'Künstler im Film' series for Zigarettenfabrik Monopol, Dresden, Serie 1, image 1. Photo: Ufa.

Beautiful Lída Baarová (1914-2000) was a glamorous Czech film star who worked in Prague, Berlin and Rome. A dangerous affair with Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister of the Third Reich, first enhanced and later seriously damaged her career.

Leni Riefenstahl
German cigarette card by Ross Verlag in the Ramses Film-Fotos series for Jasmatzi Cigarettenfabrik, Dresden. Serie 1, Image no. 145. Photo: Vogel-Sandau.

Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) was the notorious director of Triumph des Willens (1935), a fascinating propaganda documentary about Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, commissioned by the Nazi government. Before she started directing films, she worked as a dancer and on screen she became a star in the mountain films, directed by Arnold Fanck.

Maria Solveg
German cigarette card by Cigarettenfabrik Monopol, Dresden, no. 197. Photo: Lux Film Verl.

German film and screenwriter Maria Solveg or Maria Matray (1907–1993) was a star of the late Weimar cinema. When Hitler came to power, the Jewish actress went in exile and had a new career in the US as a choreographer and writer.

Dolores Costello in Noah's Ark (1929)
French postcard by Europe, no. 658. Photo: Warner Bros / Arta Film. Dolores Costello in Noah's Ark (Michael Curtiz, 1929).

American film actress Dolores Costello (1903-1979) was 'The Goddess of the Silent Screen'. She was Hollywood royalty: the daughter of popular matinee idol Maurice Costello, wife of John Barrymore and grandmother of Drew Barrymore.

Dita Parlo
French postcard by Europe, no. 1086. Photo: Studio Intran.

Lovely Dita Parlo (1906-1971) was a star of German and French films of the late 1920s and 1930s, who also worked in Hollywood. She inspired both Dita Von Teese and Madonna, the latter used her name and character from L'Atalante (1934) for her Sex book and Erotica album.

Käthe von Nagy
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4014/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Atelier Sandau, Berlin.

Hungarian actress Käthe von Nagy (1904-1973) started as the ‘Backfish’ of German films of the late 1920s. In the early 1930s she became a fashionable and charming star of the German and French cinema.

Dina Gralla
Austrian postcard by Iris-Verlag, no. 5069. Photo: Manassé, Wien.

Polish born, German actress Dina Gralla (1905-1994) often appeared as a naive, sexy dancer in German revues, and in more than 35 silent and early sound films.

Tom Cruise
British postcard by Heroes Publishing Ltd., London, no. SPC 2894.

American actor and producer Tom Cruise (1962) became with his charismatic smile the most successful member of Hollywood's Brat Pack, the golden boys and girls of the 1980s. Top Gun (1985) made him an action star, but with his roles in The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989) he proved himself to be an all-round star and excellent actor. During the 1990s, he continued to combine action blockbusters like Mission Impossible (1996) with highly acclaimed dramas like A Few Good Men (1992), Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and Magnolia (1999). He received more praise for his roles in Minority Report (2000) and Collateral (2002) and was for years one of the highest paid actors in the world. Although he continued to score major box office hits with the Mission Impossible franchise, his later work was overshadowed by his outspoken attitude about Scientology which alienated him from many of his viewers.

Cathia Caro
Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano, no. 972.

Former French actress Cathia Caro (1943) was a young, delicate beauty. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, she starred in French and especially Italian films, opposite such stars as Totò, Peppino De Filippo and Aldo Fabrizi.

Gia Scala
Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano, no. 682.

Gia Scala (1934-1972) was a beautiful, sensitive English born Italian-American actress and model. Despite roles in such classics as The Guns of Navarone (1961), she never reached her full potential in Hollywood. The circumstances surrounding Scala's death at 36 by an overdose, have been questioned.

Chelo Alonso
Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, no. 899.

Former Cuban actress, dancer and sex-symbol Chelo Alonso (1933-2019) was a star in the Italian cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s. In several sword and sandal epics she played femme fatales with fiery tempers and she did sensual dance scenes, mixing Afro-Cuban rhythms with ‘bump and grind’. Ultimately in the DVD era, the ‘Cuban H-bomb’ became a cult heroine for many international B-film buffs.

Anita Ekberg
Italian postcard, no. 607.

Swedish (but naturalised Italian) film actress Anita Ekberg had a Hollywood career in the 1950s, when she was contracted by studio mogul Howard Hughes. However, she got her real breakthrough in Italy. In Rome, she made film history as the sensual, curvaceous film goddess who dances in the Trevi Fountain in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960).

Francesca Bertini
Italian postcard by Fotocelere, no. 35. Photo: Unione Cinematografia Italiana, Roma.

Majestic diva of the Italian silent cinema Francesca Bertini (1892-1985) was one of the first European film stars. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, she often played the 'femme fatale', with men devouring eyes, glamorous attire, clenched fists, and in opulent settings. She also starred in (and some say also directed) one of the first realist films in Italian cinema: Assunta Spina (1915).

Febo Mari
Italian postcard by Fotocelere, no. 127. Photo: Unione Cinematografia Italiana, Roma.

Febo Mari (1881-1939) was an Italian actor, director and writer of the stage, screen and radio, who peaked in the 1910s with films such as Il fuoco, Il fauno and Cenere.

Carlo Gualandri
Italian postcard by Fotocelere, no. 89. Photo: Unione Cinematografia Italiana, Roma.

Carlo Gualandri (1895-1972) was an Italian film actor from the silent film era. His career set off from 1919, when he started to work in Rome for Cines and Celio, where he acted opposite such actors as Elena Lunda, Elena Sangro, Alberto Capozzi, etc.

Anna Fougez
Italian postcard by Fotocelere, Torino, no. 136.

Anna Fougez (1894-1966) was a vaudeville star who shone on the Italian stage from the First World War to the mid-1920s. She also played in various Italian films.

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