French postcard by Vitagraph Co, no. 30. Photo: Vitagraph Caption: Flora Finch in the city and on stage.
Extraordinarily tall and skinny British actress Flora Finch (1867-1940) was one of the early comedy stars of the silent-film era. Together with John Bunny, she made more than 250 short films for the Vitagraph Co. between 1910 and 1915.
Vintage postcard. Photo: M.G.M. Betty Hutton in Annie Get Your Gun (George Sidney, 1950).
American actress Betty Hutton (1921-2007) was an energetic 'blonde bombshell' of the 1940s. She appeared in successful musicals and comedies, including The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), Red, Hot and Blue (1949), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), and The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1147/1, 1927-1928. Photo: Kindler, Berlin.
Kurt Wolowsky (1897-1985), was a German actor, who mainly acted in German silent cinema. He was impressive as young Hoffmann in the classic Hoffmans Erzählungen/The Tales of Hoffmann (Richard Oswald, 1916), a liberal adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera, which in its turn was loosely based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's Tales.
Vintage postcard. Photo: Columbia. Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4120/1, 1929-1930. Photo: United Artists. James Hall and Vilma Banky in This is Heaven (Alfred Santell, 1929).
Austrian postcard by Iris Verlag, no. 5508. Photo: F.B.O. / Wiener Lichtbilderei. Richard Talmadge in The Night Patrol (Noel M. Smith, 1926).
Dutch postcard, no. 3198. Photo: Europa Columbia.
Evelyn Keyes (1916-2008) was an American film actress. She is best known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and for the female lead in the blockbuster hit The Jolson Story (1946). Her final film was The Seven Year's Itch (1955) starring Marilyn Monroe.
Dutch postcard by Takken, no. 461. Photo: Universal International.
Tall, sultry, green-eyed blonde Peggie Castle (1927-1973) was an American actress who specialised in playing the "other woman" in B-movies. Castle was Miss Cheesecake in 1949.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6375/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Elli Marcus, Berlin.
Russian-born ballet dancer and actress Genia Nikolaieva (1904-2001) worked in the German cinema during the 1930s. In 1938 she emigrated to the United States, where she became ‘one of the most beautiful studio secretaries for Warner Bros'.
American by Movie Candid Color Card, Beverly Hills, Calif., no. A20. Photo: Frank Powolny (Kodachrome) / 20th Century. Caption: Betty Grable, whose singing and dancing have won her the top20th Century Fox and Hollywood stardom, is married to bandleader Harry James. They have two children.
American postcard by Movie Candid Color Card, Beverly Hills, Calif., no. A18. Photo: Jack Albin (Kodachrome). Publicity still for Bride of Vengeance/A Mask for Lucretia (Mitchell Leisen, 1949). Caption: Paulette Goddard, former Ziegfeld girl, later cavorted for Samuel Goldwyn, and won stardom opposite Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. Paulette really clicked at Paramount, where she teamed with Bob Hope, and followed with several starring roles for C.B. De Mille. Once married to Charlie Chaplin, she is now the wife of actor Burgess Meredith.
Vintage card. Photo: London Films. Margaret Leighton in The Elusive Pimpernel (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1949).
Tall, reedy, thin-browed, light-haired Margaret Leighton (1922-1976) was a British award-winning theatre and film actress. She appeared with her future husband Michael Wilding in the Hitchcock film Under Capricorn (1949). She won two Tony Awards for Broadway performances as Best Actress (Dramatic): in 1957 for 'Separate Tables' and in 1962 for Tennessee Williams' 'The Night of the Iguana'. 'Leighton received an Oscar nomination and a BAFTA award for her role in The Go-Between (Joseph Losey, 1971). She also won an Emmy Award for a 1970 television version of 'Hamlet'.
Dutch postcard by Weenenk & Snel, Baarn.
Pim Maas (1944) is a Dutch rock'n'roll singer and guitarist. In 1959, he won the Dutch Elvis Presley election, just before Ria Valk, who came in second. In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of singles by Maas were released and he performed with various accompaniment groups.
Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg, Rotterdam, no. 6017. Photo: Fontana / Phonogram. Singers Ria Valk and Heidi Brühl during a promotional visit of the latter in the Netherlands.
Dutch postcard by Uitgeverij Takken, Utrecht, no. AX 5985, 1964.
Funny-looking, reddish André van Duin (1947) is a famous comedian and actor in Dutch-speaking countries. He is also a singer, writer, and creator of television programs, and he starred in three Dutch film comedies.
Source: VerzamelJaarbeurs (Dutch).
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