Dutch postcard by PEB.
American film star Joan Crawford (1904-1977) had a career that spanned many decades, studios, and controversies. In her silent films, she made an impact as a vivacious Jazz Age flapper, and later she matured into a star of psychological melodramas.
Dutch postcard by Takken / 't Sticht, no. 3177. Photo: Filmtrust - Paramount.
American singer Bing Crosby (1903-1977) was a crooner whose signature song was 'White Christmas'. He often played 'happy-go-lucky fellas' in films which included the 'Road to...' comedies from 1940 to 1962, but he proved that he could act with The Country Girl (1954) opposite Grace Kelly. Crosby was a multi-media entertainer: a star on the radio and in the cinema, with chart-topping recordings. He had 38 no. 1 singles, which surpassed Elvis Presley and The Beatles.
Dutch postcard by 't Sticht, no. 3017. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Red-headed and blue-green-eyed operatic singer Jeanette MacDonald (1903-1965) was discovered for the cinema by Ernst Lubitsch, who cast her opposite Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade (1929). Later, the 'Iron Butterfly' co-starred with Nelson Eddy in a string of successful musicals and played opposite Clark Gable in San Francisco (1936).
Dutch postcard by J.S.A. Photo: Universal / M.P.E.
George Brent (1904-1979) was an Irish-born actor who was mainly active in American cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the favourite leading man of Bette Davis and they were onscreen paired eleven times in such classics as Jezebel (1938) and Dark Victory (1939).
Dutch postcard by P.F. Cladder, Amsterdam, no. 49-51. Photo: Warner Bros.
American actress Joan Leslie (1925-2015) starred in over 30 films. Her breakout role came at the age of 15, when she appeared as the crippled girl Velma in High Sierra (1941) with Humphrey Bogart. In the following years, she starred alongside Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941) and James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). After 1956, she appeared in some television series.
Dutch postcard by PEB.
Between 1939 and 1951, American actor Robert Walker (1918-1951) played in about twenty films. He starred in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Strangers on a Train (1949) as the madman who proposes a perfect murder in exchange.
Dutch postcard by 't Sticht, no. 3023. Photo: Universal- International. Maria Montez in Sudan (John Rawlins, 1945).
Dominican film actress María Montez (1912-1951) gained fame and popularity as a tempestuous Latina beauty in Hollywood movies of the 1940s. In a series of exotic adventures filmed in Technicolor, she starred as Arabian princesses, jungle goddesses, and highborn gypsies, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling jewels. Over her career, ‘The Queen of Technicolor’ appeared in 26 films, of which five were made in Europe.
Dutch postcard by 't Sticht, no. 3095. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Dark-haired and tall John Carroll (1906-1979) was an American actor and singer. Combining a good singing voice and dashing looks, Carroll appeared in over 50 films during his 24-year career. He reached his peak in the 1940s when MGM gave him leading roles in second-rate Westerns and musicals. Incidentally, he worked with famous directors like Howard Hawks, George Cukor and Orson Welles. He was married briefly to exotic leading lady Steffi Duna, and later to one of the first female Hollywood studio executives, Lucille Ryman.
Dutch postcard. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Ann Miller (1923-2004) was an American dancer, singer and actress. She was famed for her speed in tap dancing and her style of glamour: massive black bouffant hair, heavy makeup with a splash of crimson lipstick, and fashions that emphasised her lithe figure and long dancer's legs. Miller is best remembered for her work in the classic Hollywood musicals Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949) and Kiss Me Kate (1953).
Dutch postcard by Takken / 't Sticht, no. 3332. Photo: Europa / Columbia.
Jack Carson (1910-1953) was a tall and beefy character actor who specialised in friendly but frequently untrustworthy types in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s. He would take the double-take and the quizzical look to a higher level.
Dutch postcard by Foto archief Film en Toneel, no. 3240. Photo: J. Arthur Rank Organ.
Fresh-faced Patricia Roc (1915-2003) was, between 1943 and 1953, one of Britain's top 10 box office stars. The elegant, well-spoken actress seemed the epitome of the English rose. She had international success in such Gainsborough costume dramas as Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) and The Wicked Lady (1945), and in When the Bough Breaks (1947), in which she played an unmarried mother.
Dutch postcard by MPEA. Photo: RKO.
American actress Anne Shirley (1918-1993) began her career as a child actress, Dawn O'Day, and was the original Alice in Disney's silent animated series Alice in Cartoonland. She became known as Anne Shirley with Anne of Green Gables (1934). For her supporting role in Stella Dallas (1937), she received an Oscar nomination.
Dutch postcard by Takken / 't Sticht, no. 3138. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Richard Conte (1910-1975) was an American actor who often appeared in Film Noirs and crime dramas of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Two decades later, he returned to the screen as gangster boss Don Barzini in The Godfather (1972).
Dutch postcard by Takken / 't Sticht, no. 1567. Photo: RKO Radio Films.
American actor Dale Robertson (1923-2013) was best known for his starring roles on television. He played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the television series Tales of Wells Fargo and railroad owner Ben Calhoun in Iron Horse. He was often presented as a deceptively thoughtful but modest Western hero. Robertson played in over 60 Western films and television shows.
West German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden/Westf., no. 789. Barbara Lang and Elvis Presley.
Beautiful, brassy Barbara Lang (1928–1982) was an American actress and singer. During the 1950s, she was one of the many B-level blondes in Hollywood who were promoted as the new Marilyn Monroe. However, Lang appeared in only three films.
When The Beatles came to America in 1965, there was only one person they wanted to meet: Elvis Presley (1935-1977). Elvis had more multi-platinum album sales than any other performer, with twelve albums selling over 2 million copies.
All postcards: Collection Geoffrey Donaldson Institute (GDI). Our thanks to Egbert Barten.
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