Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 5. Edith Jéhanne as the princess Tarakanova in Tarakanova (Raymond Bernard, 1930).
Édith Jéhanne played the lead in two major films. First in G.W. Pabst's Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney, based on a story by Ilya Ehrenberg. Secondly, Jehanne played the lead, together with Pierre Blanchar, in Le joueur d'échecs (Raymond Bernard, 1927).
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 9. Photo: First National. The Battle of Trafalgar in The Divine Lady (Frank Lloyd, 1929).
The Divine Lady (Frank Lloyd, 1929) was an American historical drama in which Corinne Griffith starred as Lady Emma Hamilton and Hungarian-Austrian matinee idol Victor Varconi played her lover, Admiral Horatio Nelson. For her performance, Griffith was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress. The Divine Lady was a Vitaphone sound film with a synchronised musical score, sound effects, and some singing, but no spoken dialogue.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 37, 14.11.1931. Photo: United Artists. Conrad Nagel and Norma Talmadge in Dubarry, Woman of Passion (Sam Taylor, 1930).
Norma Talmadge (1894-1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen. American actor Conrad Nagel (1897-1970) was a tall, blue-eyed matinee idol of the 1920s. He successfully made the transition to sound film.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 49, 19.9.1931. Photo: Paramount.
Juliette Compton aka Julie Compton (1800-1989) was an American screen actress, known for Nell Gwyn (1926), The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1928), and Berkeley Square (1933). In the early 1930s, she was a regular at Paramount, often cast as 'the other woman'.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 58, 21.11.1931. Lilian Harvey in Princesse, à vos ordres (Hanns Schwarz, Max de Vaucorbeil, 1931) was the French version of the early German sound film Ihre Hoheit befiehlt. Co-writer of this film was Billy Wilder. It was remade in Hollywood in 1933 as Adorable, with Henry Garat and Janet Gaynor.
British-born, German actress and singer Lilian Harvey (1906-1968) was Ufa's biggest star of the 1930s. With Willy Fritsch, she formed the 'Dream Team of the European Cinema'. Their best film was the immensely popular film Operetta Der Kongress tanzt/The Congress Dances (Erik Charell, 1931).
Spanish leaflets by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 69, 6.2.1932. Photo: RKO Pathé.
Dorothy Granger (1911-1995) was a Texas beauty contest winner at the age of thirteen, From one short comedy to another, she worked with every popular comic or comedy team of the twenties and thirties, as a young foil with Laurel & Hardy, a damsel-in-distress for The Three Stooges, and a prop for Lucille Ball to pop in Perfectly Mismated (1934).
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 72, 27.2.1932. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dorothy Jordan, Catherine Moylan and Dorothy McNulty a.k.a. Penny Singleton. Moylan's name is misspelled here as Maylan. The three actresses played together in the MGM film Love in the Rough (Charles Reisner, 1930).
Dorothy Jordan (1906-1988) was an American film actress, who emerged as an actress at the start of the talkies. Catherine Moylan (1904-1969) was an American actress of Belgian origin and the first Miss Universe in 1926. Penny Singleton (1908-2003), born Dorothy McNulty, was an American actress and labour leader. During her six-decade career, Singleton appeared as the comic-strip heroine Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 films from 1938 until 1950 and the popular Blondie radio program from 1939 until 1950. Singleton also provided the voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series The Jetsons from 1962 to 1963.
Films Selectos
On Saturday, 4 October 1930, the first issue of a new cinematographic periodical was published in Barcelona. It was Films Selectos, an illustrated cinematographic weekly, directed initially by Tomás Gutiérrez Larraya.
Films Selectos was not a fan magazine. With a modern graphic presentation, well-written articles and multi-coloured artistic portraits and film stills, it found a public of intellectuals interested in cinema.
The magazine offered a lively debate on sound in the cinema and the problem of dubbing. In 1936 the editors of Films Selectos formed the Pro-Cinema group, which presented itself with a manifesto.
In October 1936, J. Esteve Quintana took charge of the magazine as the new director. He published the last twenty-five issues during the military conflict in Spain at that time.
Throughout its eight years of existence, in total 328 issues of Films Selectos were published, so later it probably became a monthly in the final years. However, in each issue, there was a collectable leaflet.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 79, 16.4.1932. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
American actress, singer, and dancer Mary Carlisle (1914-2018) starred in more than 60 Hollywood films. The petite, blue-eyed blonde made a name for herself as a wholesome ingénue in numerous 1930s musical comedies. After her marriage in 1942 and a starring role in Dead Men Walk (1943), she retired from acting.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 79. Photo: Distr. Marcel Vandal & Charles Delac. Scene from the German mountain drama Berge in Flammen/Mountains on Fire (Karl Hartl, Luis Trenker, 1931).
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 80, 23.4.1932. Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor in Merely Mary Ann (Henry King, 1931).
Good-looking American actor Charles Farrell (1900-1990) was a Hollywood matinée idol of the Jazz Age and Depression era. Between 1927 and 1934, he was very popular thanks to his teaming with Janet Gaynor in 12 screen romances, including 7th Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929). Petite Janet Gaynor (1906-1984) was the innocent-eyed, round-faced Hollywood star who won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles in three silent films. She went on to become a leading performer in talking pictures and was one of the most popular Hollywood leading ladies in the 1920s and 1930s.
Spanish leaflets by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 81, 30.4.1932. Photo: Ufa. Renate Müller in the period drama Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (Gustav Ucicky, 1930). Spanish release title: Concierto historic.
Popular actress Renate Müller (1906-1937) was the toast of late 1920s Berlin. She had a comet-like career in the early German sound cinema, that was abruptly ended by her mysterious early death.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 83, 14.5.1932. Photo: Distr. Marcel Vandal & Charles Delac. Scene from the German mountain drama Berge in Flammen/Mountains on Fire (Karl Hartl, Luis Trenker, 1931).
Luis Trenker (1892-1990) was an Austrian-Italian ski champion, mountain climber, architect, film director, and actor. He portrayed rugged, daring outdoorsmen in the Mountain Film, the genre which seemed to be created especially for him. His films glorified epic struggles such as colonisation and wars for freedom and were set against spectacular, usually mountainous landscapes.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Supplemento Artistico, no. 86. Scene from the silent Hollywood film The Valley of the Giants (Charles Brabin, 1927), starring Milton Sills.
Milton Sills (1882-1930) was a major American silent film actor and university professor. His relatively early death and his unusual career made him a legend.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 89, 25.6.1932.
Stunningly beautiful and highly photogenic Billie Dove (1903-1997) was one of the most popular Hollywood actresses of the 1920s. She was dubbed 'The American Beauty', after the title of one of her films.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 112, 3.12.1932. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dorothy Jordan.
Dorothy Jordan (1906-1988) was an American film actress, who emerged as an actress at the start of the talkies. She made her film debut in 1929 as Mary Pickford's sister in Sam Taylor's The Taming of the Shrew. Jordan worked for various studios and until 1933 played the female lead in various films. Important parts she had e.g. in Min and Bill (1930) with Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler and in The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) with Bette Davis. In the early 1930s, she worked with various well-known actors, including Ramon Novarro, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Huston, and Jimmy Durante. In 1933 Jordan left the film industry to marry film producer and director Merian C. Cooper.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Supplemento Artistico, no. 114. Marcelle Chantal in the French early sound film Toute sa vie (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1930).
Elegant French stage and film actress Marcelle Chantal (1901–1960) appeared in leading roles in such films as Maurice Tourneur's Au nom de la loi/In the Name of the Law (1932) and La Tragédie impériale/Rasputin (Marcel L'Herbier, 1938) featuring Harry Baur.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 115, 24.12.1932.
During the late 1920s, sexy and bubbly Alice White (1904-1983) was one of Hollywood's most popular stars who received more than 30,000 fan letters a month. She was Warner Bros' blonde answer to Clara Bow, and among her film hits were Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) and Show Girl (1928). Tabloid reports about a violent love triangle seriously damaged her reputation and her career.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 126, 11.3.1933. Caption: June Vlasek, the beautiful Fox artist.
June Lang (1917-2005), originally credited as June Vlasek was a blue-eyed blonde with a striking, open-faced beauty. She had a very encouraging career in 1930s Hollywood with major roles in The Road to Glory (1936), and two Shirley Temple hearttuggers, Captain January (1936), and Wee Willie Winkie (1937). After appearing in over 30 films, she disappeared from the screen.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 132, 22.4.1933. Lil Dagover and Otto Gebühr in Die Tänzerin von Sanssouci/Barbarina, the King's Dancer (Frederic Zelnik, 1932).
German actor Otto Gebühr (1877-1954) appeared in 102 films between 1917 and 1962. He is best known for his interpretation of Friedrich II (Frederick the Great), a role he played in 16 films and countless stage performances. He was one of the most famous actors of the Weimar period. German, but Dutch-born film actress Lil Dagover (1887-1980) was an exotic, dark beauty, who featured prominently during the golden age of the German silent cinema. She had her breakthrough as the prey of Dr. Caligari's monster in the classic expressionist film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) but gradually her fine and evanescent beauty changed and she turned into a ´Salondame´, a lady of the screen. Her career would span nearly six decades.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 123, 18.2.1933. Photo: Fox. George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor in Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927).
American actor George O'Brien (1899-1985) was a muscular, barrel-chested, yet sensitively talented leading man of classic silent films, like John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924) and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927). He became a different kind of star as a cowboy in B-Westerns during the sound era. Petite Janet Gaynor (1906-1984) was the innocent-eyed, round-faced Hollywood star who won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles in three silent films: 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928). She went on to become a leading performer in talking pictures and was one of the most popular Hollywood leading ladies in the 1920s and 1930s. By 1934 she was receiving a yearly salary of $252,583 from Fox, making her Hollywood's most highly paid actress.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 134, 6.5.1933. Photo: United Artists. Billie Dove and Chester Morris in Cock of the Air (Tom Buckingham, 1932).
Good-looking American actor Chester Morris (1901-1970) was a Broadway star who became a real film actor in the sound era. Morris was Oscar-nominated for Alibi (1929), but his greatest success was The Big House (1930). Later he played the character Boston Blackie in the popular series of B-films. Stunningly beautiful and highly photogenic Billie Dove (1903-1997) was one of the most popular Hollywood actresses of the 1920s. She was dubbed The American Beauty, after the title of one of her films.
Spanish illustration by Films selectos, Supplemento Artistico, no. 162. Photo: Films Artistica Barcelonesa. Diana Karenne in Le Collier de la reine/The Queen's Necklace (Tony Lekain, Gaston Ravel, 1929).
Polish actress Diana Karenne (1888-1940) was one of the divas of Italian silent cinema. Between 1916 and 1920, Karenne fascinated audiences with her eccentric dresses and make-up, and with her primadonna behaviour. Afterwards, she had a career in German and French silent cinema.
Spanish illustration by Films selectos, Supplemento Artistico, no. 169. Photo: Films Artistica Barcelonesa. Diana Karenne in Le Collier de la reine/The Queen's Necklace (Tony Lekain, Gaston Ravel, 1929).
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 176, 24.2.1934. Photo: Cine-Allianz. Hans Jaray in Leise flehen meine Lieder (Willi Forst, 1933), Forst's first film direction is about the life of composer and musician Franz Schubert. In 1934 an English version was made as The Unfinished Symphony, also with Jaray in the lead.
Hans Jaray (1906–1990) was an Austrian actor and playwright who starred as a leading man in several 1930s films, such as the Schubert biopic Leise flehen meine Lieder/Gently My Songs Entreat (1933). The Czech film Pán na roztrhání/Man in Demand on All Sides (1934) with Lida Baarová was based on one of his plays. Following the Anschluss of 1938, Jaray emigrated to the United States but returned to Vienna after the Second World War. He also wrote and directed several television films.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 177, 3.3.1934. Photo: London Films / United Artists. Elisabeth Bergner as Princess Sophie, later Empress Catherine, and Flora Robson as Empress Elisabeth in the British film The Rise of Catherine the Great (Paul Czinner, 1934). The historical film was produced by Alexander Korda and based on the play 'The Czarina' by Lajos Bíró and Melchior Lengyel, about the rise to power of Catherine the Great.
The profoundly sensitive acting of Austrian-British actress Elisabeth Bergner (1897-1986) influenced the German cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. She specialised in a bisexual type that she portrayed in Der Geiger von Florenz and in other film and stage roles. Nazism forced her to go into exile, but she worked successfully in the West End and on Broadway. British Flora Robson (1902-1984) was one of the half-dozen finest dramatic actresses of her generation. Her range extended from queens to murderesses and she was particularly renowned for her performances in plays demanding dramatic and emotional intensity. Her best-known film role was that of Queen Elizabeth I in both Fire Over England (1937) and The Sea Hawk (1940). However, her career was a constant struggle to achieve the roles worthy of her talents.
Spanish leaflet by Films Selectos, Suplemento Artistico, no. 193, 23.1.1934. Dolores del Rio in Madame Dubarry (William Dieterle, 1934).
Mexican-American actress Dolores del Río (1905–1983) was a Hollywood star in the 1920s and 1930s, and one of the most important female actresses of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Del Río was the first major Latin cross-over star in Hollywood and was considered one of the most beautiful faces that have emerged in Hollywood cinema.
Sources: LLuis Benejam (Archivo Cine Lluis Benejam - Material Cinematografico - Spanish), Filmoteca de Catalunya and Enciclopèdia.cat (Catalunyan).
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