16 June 2022

Published by Int. Filmpers

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dutch publishing house Int. Filmpers in Amsterdam issued a number of postcards in black and white of film stars and famous musicians, and later also followed TV personalities. The cards sometimes had the abbreviation I.F.P. Int. Filmpers printed a series of postcards of the Dutch film classic Fanfare (1958) directed by Bert Haanstra, and also of several West-German entertainment films. They also issued postcards for the magazine 'Song Parade' and printed film posters. For this post, we selected 20 I.F.P postcards from our collection.

Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Böhm in Sissi
Dutch postcard by N.V. Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam, no. 1027. Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Böhm in Sissi (Ernst Marischka, 1955).

Hildegard Knef
Dutch postcard by N.V. Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam, no. 1056. Hildegard Knef.

Maria Schell in Rose Bernd (1957)
Dutch postcard by N.V. Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam, no. 1075. Photo: Bavaria Filmkunst. Maria Schell in Rose Bernd/The Sins of Rose Bernd (Wolgang Staudte, 1957).

Horst Buchholz and Romy Schneider in Robinson soll nicht sterben (1957)
Dutch postcard by Drukkerij Uitg. Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam, no. 1092. Photo: Horst Buchholz and Romy Schneider in Robinson soll nicht sterben/The Legend of Robinson Crusoe (Josef von Báky, 1957).

Marilyn Monroe
Dutch postcard by Uitg. Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam, no. 1154. Marilyn Monroe.

Brigitte Bardot
Dutch postcard by Uitg. Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam. Brigitte Bardot.

Rock Hudson
Dutch postcard by Uitg. Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam, no. 1174. Rock Hudson.

Rudi Carrell and Esther Ofarim
Dutch postcard by Int. Filmpers, Amsterdam, no. 1178. Photo: Phonogram. Still from an episode of the Rudi Carrell Show, a Dutch TV show that won the Silver Rose award of the Montreux television festival 1964. This episode was shot on an artificial, uninhabited island, where Robinson Crusoe (Rudi Carrell) and his monkey Friday get a visit from a mermaid, played by singer Esther Ofarim.

Roger Moore in Ivanhoe
Dutch postcard by Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam. Photo: Roger Moore in the TV series Ivanhoe (1958-1959).

Romy Schneider and Horst Buchholz at the Dutch Première of Monpti (1957)
Dutch postcard by Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam, no. 1221. Photo: Cont Press / Heinz Fremke. Caption: Special picture [of Romy Schneider and Horst Buchholz] made at the [Dutch] premiere of Monpti [(Helmut Käutner, 1957)]. A film based on the novel 'Monpti' issued in 15 languages in a total edition of 2.000.000 copies. Author: Gabor von Vasary.

Heinz Rühmann in Kleider machen Leute (1940)
Dutch postcard by Drukkerij Uitg. Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam, no. 1243. Photo: Heinz Rühmann in Kleider machen Leute/Clothes Make the Man (Helmut Käutner, 1940). Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.

Tommy Steele
Dutch postcard by Uitg. Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam, no. 1326. Tommy Steele.

Little Richard (1932-2020)
Dutch postcard by Uitg. Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam, no. 1525. Little Richard performs with his band as his saxophone player Grady Gaines stands on the piano in Mister Rock And Roll (Charles S. Dubin, 1957).

Ineke Brinkman and Wim van den Heuvel in Fanfare (1958)
Dutch postcard by Int. Filmpers (IFP), Amsterdam, no. 1920. Photo: Ineke Brinkman and Wim van den Heuvel in Fanfare (Bert Haanstra, 1958). After a fight, the brass band (in Dutch: fanfare) in the small village of Giethoorn splits up into two separate bands. They both want to win a contest and will do anything to prevent the other band from winning it.

Ineke Brinkman and Wim van den Heuvel in Fanfare (1958)
Dutch postcard by Int. Filmpers (IFP), Amsterdam, no. 1932. Photo: Ineke Brinkman and Wim van den Heuvel in Fanfare (Bert Haanstra, 1958).

Frankie Avalon and Carolyn Jones on the set of Guns of the Timberland (1960)
Dutch postcard by Drukkerij-Uitgeverij Int. Filmpers (I.F.P.), Amsterdam, no. 3189. Photo: Warner Bros. Frankie Avalon and Carolyn Jones (and not Jennifer Jones) on the set of Guns of the Timberland (Robert D. Webb, 1960).

Fabian
Dutch postcard by Uitgeverij Int. Filmpers, Amsterdam (I.F.P.), no. WPS 33 / 261. Photo: Chancellor. Fabian. Caption: Read "Song Parade". More than 20 song texts every month.

Natalie Wood
Dutch postcard by Int. Filmpers, Amsterdam, no. 363 / 817. Natalie Wood.

Conny Froboess, Peter Weck
Dutch postcard by Int. Filmpers, Amsterdam, no. WPS 168. Photo: Centrafilm. Conny Froboess and Peter Weck in Mariandl (Werner Jacobs, 1961).

Conny Froboess in Amsterdam
Dutch postcard by Int. Filmpers, Amsterdam. Sent by mail in 1961. German teen idol Conny Froboess in Amsterdam.

Source: Lodewijk van Buuren (VDP - Dutch).

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