French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: A. Bert. Caption: Mlle Napierkowska de l'Opèra.
Exotic Stacia Napierkowska (1886-1945) was a fascinating star of the silent film era. The French actress and dancer is best remembered as the seductive but cruel Queen Antinéa in the classic fantasy L’Atlantide/Queen of Atlantis (Jacques Feyder, 1921). Between 1908 and 1926 she appeared in 86 films.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: X. Caption: Mlle Napierkowska de l'Opèra.
French postcard by Édition Pathé Frères. Caption: Prince.
Charles Prince (1872-1933), aka just ‘Prince’, was a French film actor, director and writer. He was famous for his countless comical shorts with his alter ego Rigadin.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Splendid Bucharest. Caption: Nick Winter, Detective.
Georges Vinter (1879-1945), whose real name was Paul Georges Pinvert, was a French silent film actor and director. He started out at Pathè Frères in the crime film Le Tour du monde d'un policier, by Charles-Lucien Lépine. Between 1910 and 1915, he was the creator of the role and interpreter of the very popular detective Nick Winter, whose name was inspired by his own pseudonym. The series of well over thirty shorts, produced by the Pathé film company and mostly directed by Paul Garbagni but also by Gérard Bourgeois, was a great success before the First World War.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Henri Manuel. Caption: Mlle Robinne de la Comédie Française.
Gabrielle Robinne (1886-1980) was a French stage and film actress, who had the peak of her film career in the 1910s.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: A. Bert. Caption: Emile Dehelly de la Comédie Française. Emile Dehelly as D'Artagnan in the Le Film d'Art production of Les trois mousquetaires/The Three Musketeers (Henri Pouctal, 1913), based on Alexandre Dumas' famous novel.
Émile Dehelly (1871-1969) was a French stage and screen actor, who was a sociétaire of the Comédie française (1903-1928) and had a prolific career at Le Film d’Art between 1909 and 1913. He is the father of film actor Jean Dehelly (1896-1964).
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Félix. Caption: Mlle Ventura de l'Odéon.
Marie or Maria Ventura (1888-1954) was a Romanian-French actress and theatre director. She became well known in the silent cinema with her role in the popular serial Les misérables (1912). From 1919 to 1941 she worked at the Comédie-Française. In 1938, she directed 'Iphigénie' by Racine, becoming the first woman to direct a play at the Comédie-Française.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Benque. Caption: M. Henry Krauss.
French actor and director Henry Krauss (1866-1935) was a veteran of European cinema. From 1908 on he starred in several powerful character roles in early silent films.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Caption: Mlle L. Massart.
Léontine Massart (1885-1980) was a French stage and screen actress of Belgian origin. She peaked in French silent films of the early 1910s.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Félix. Caption: M. Castillan.
From 1911 on, handsome French actor Castillan starred in several short films by Pathé Frères. Among his leading ladies were Stacia Napierkowska and Berthe Bovy.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Félix. Caption: Mlle Robinne de la Comédie Française.
Gabrielle Robinne (1886-1980) was a French stage and film actress, who had the peak of her film career in the 1910s.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: A. Bert. Caption: M. Saillard.
French actor Georges Saillard (1877-1967) appeared from 1909 on in several early silent Eclair and Pathé productions. He starred in more than 70 films between 1909 and 1950.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Félix. Caption: Mlle Jeanne Delvair.
Jeanne Delvair (1877-1943) was an acclaimed French stage actress of the Comédie-Française, but she also had a rich career in French silent cinema, mainly at Pathé Frères. She is the sister of actress Germaine Dermoz (1888-1966) and of animal painter Henri Deluermoz (1876-1943).
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Félix. Caption: Mlle Carmen de Raisy.
Carmen Deraisy aka Carmen de Raisy (1883-1954) was a French stage and screen actress. In 1910 she started to act in the film, at the company Éclair e.g. La jolie dame de Narbonne (Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, 1910) in which she had the lead right away. But already in 1911, she stepped over to Pathé, where she could be seen in e.g. La fiancée du château maudit (Albert Capellani, 1911), a horror film about a bride who gets trapped in a room with a skeleton. After that, Deraisy acted in eight more films at Pathé between 1911 and 1914.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Félix. Caption: Mme. Archambault.
As far as known, Ginette Archambault (?-?) only acted in two Pathé film productions: Le secret du chatelain (Paul Gabargni, 1914), with Henri Desfontaines, Jean Signoret, and Irene Bordoni as a female detective, and L'empereur des pauvres (René Leprince, 1922), starring Léon Mathot and Gina Relly.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Waléry. Caption: Madame Noizeux.
French stage and film actress Paulette Noizeux (1887–1971) began her career on the stages of France and New York in the 1910s. Her career spanned sixty years. Noizeux made her film debut in the 1911 Abel Gance-directed film short La Digue, opposite actors Jean Renoir and Jean Toulout. In the early 1910s she acted in various Pathé Frères films, such as Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre (Georges Denola 1913), with Gabriel de Gravone, and L'infamie d'un autre (Camille de Morlhon, 1914). While she did several subsequent films with De Morlhon, she was also reunited with Gance in L'énigme de dix heures (1915). In 1915 her silent film career stopped.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Félix. Caption: Mlle Marcelle Praince.
French stage and screen actress Marcelle Praince (1882–1969) debuted on stage around 1905 and had a first peak in her film career in the Pathé comedies with Prince a.k.a Rigadin. From 1930 until the mid-1950s, she played grandmothers, concierges, old countesses, and even fortunetellers, in over 50 films.
French postcard by Edition Pathe Frères. Caption: M. Charles Arling.
Charles Arling (1880–1922) was a Canadian actor of the silent era. He appeared in 132 American films between 1909 and 1922. In 1911 Arling moved to the American Pathé company, where he was the male lead in an avalanche of short dramas, comedies, thrillers and Westerns, starting with the thriller Saved by Telegraphy (1911). At Pathé, he was at times directed by the first Native American film director James Young Deer, e.g. in the early western A Western Courtship (1911).
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Caption: M. William Gavanaugh.
William Cavanaugh (1874-1936), misspelt on this card as Gavanaugh, was an American actor, who in the early 1910s played at the American studio of Pathé Frères in Fort Lee, New Jersey. However, compared to photos on IMDb, we would not be surprised if the man on this card is James Young Deer (1876-1946), whose ancestry is of the Nanticoke people of Delaware. He became an early film actor, director, writer, and producer. Young Deer is believed to be the first Native American filmmaker/ producer in Hollywood. After Pathé was criticised for its lack of realism in its Eastcoast Westerns, Young Deer was sent to Edendale, Los Angeles, to make Indian-themed films there. According to English Wikipedia, Young Deer acted in, wrote, or directed approximately 150 silent films at Pathé's West Coast Studio. Young Deer eventually ran the company's West Coast Studio operations in Edendale. His wife Red Wing acted in many of his films.
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Caption: Collen.
Henri Collen a.k.a. Collen (1876-1924) started to act in 1911 at the French film company Gaumont, in comedies with child actor René Dary a.k.a. Bébé and directed by Louis Feuillade. In 1912 Collen shifted to Pathé Frères, where he acted in dramas by Albert Capellani and comedies with Max Linder and Rigadin (Charles Prince) but also comedies with himself in the lead. Collen remained with Pathé until 1918. All in all, he acted in 47 - mostly short - films.
French postcard by Edition Pathe Frères. Photo: Pirou. Caption: M. Alexandre de la Comédie Française.
René Alexandre (1885-1946) was a French actor of the Comédie-Française. Between 1909 and 1940 he acted in some 53 films, mainly in shorts by Pathé but also in Antoine’s rural drama La Terre (1921).
French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Caption: M. Crane Wilbur.
Crane Wilbur (1886–1973) was an American writer, actor, and director for stage, radio, and screen, best remembered for playing Harry Marvin in the popular Pathé serial The Perils of Pauline (1914).
French postcard by Édition Pathé Frères. Photo: Félix. Caption: Mlle Juliette Clarens.
Juliette Clarens (1887–1978) was a French actress who acted in some 35 films between 1910 and 1920. From 1910-1914 she played in many comedies (e.g. with Rigadin) and dramas at Pathé Frères. In Louis Feuillade's crime serial Judex (1916) she played Gisèle. In Henri Pouctal's Zola adaptation Travail (1920) she was Suzanne.
French postcard by Editions Pathé Frères. Caption: Mme Gabriëlle Lange. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Before she passed away in 1914, French actress Gabrielle Lange was a very popular actress in countless short comedies by Pathé Frères. She often played opposite Max Linder and Charles Prince.
French postcard by Édition Pathé Frères. Photo: Oreste Castagneri. Caption: M.lle Frascaroli.
Valentina Frascaroli (1890-1955) was an Italian actress on the silent screen. After training in dance and acting, she performed on stage. In 1909 she was hired by Itala Film, first as a screenwriter, then as an actress. At Itala, she became the beloved companion of former Pathé comedian André Deed, known in Italy as Cretinetti and in France as Gribouille. She followed him to France when he returned to Pathé, now as Boireau. Frascaroli also had her own comedies as the character Griboulette. Between 1915 and 1922 she acted in many, mostly dramatic films at Itala Films such as Maciste alpino (1916), Tigre reale (1916), La guerra e il sogno di Momi (1917), etc. Already in the early 1910s she had acted opposite Ermete Zacconi in Padre (1912) and would be paired with him again in L'emigrante (1915). Frascaroli retired from the screen in 1925 but continued to perform on stage.
Check out our earlier Pathé Frères posts: Edition Pathé Frères (1), Edition Pathé Frères (2), Photo by Félix, Shorts by Pathé Frères, A rare find: an album with Pathé cards from 1911 and Pathé-Nathan.
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