German postcard by Iris Verlag, no. 5899. Photo: Philipp & Co / Allianz.
Pretty Austrian actress Jenny Jugo (1904-2001) had a prolific career in German cinema, from the late silent era well into the war years. She did particularly well as a comedienne and starred between 1931 and 1942 in eleven smart and charming comedies directed by Erich Engel.
German postcard by Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm., no. 3052.
Erna Morena (1885-1962) had an enormous career in German silent cinema in the 1910s and 1920s, and until the mid-1930s, she was regularly performing in German sound films.
German postcard by Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm., no. 4415. Photo: Atelier Eberth, Berlin-W.
Hilde Wörner (1895-1963) was a German stage and film actress who also worked as a filmmaker. She appeared mainly in silent films, had her own series, and her most notable film was Ernst Lubitsch’s Die Flamme (1922).
German postcard by Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm., no. 6821. Photo: Atelier Riess, Berlin W.
German, but Dutch-born film actress Lil Dagover (1887-1980) was an exotic, dark beauty who featured prominently during the golden age of 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.
German postcard by Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm., no. 6827. Photo: Atelier Riess, Berlin W.
German postcard by Verlag Ross, Berlin, no. 262/2, 1919-1924. Photo: Alex Binder / Decla.
Carola Toelle (1893-1958) was a German actress, particularly in German silent cinema of the late 1910s and early 1920s.
German postcard in the Film Sterne series by Rotophot, no. 551/2. Photo: Richard Oswald Film Ges., Berlin. Mechtildis Thein as the title character and Leo Connard as her father, Salomon Gebert, in Henriette Jacoby (Richard Oswald, 1918) or Jettchen Geberts Geschichte / Jettchen Gebert's Story (Richard Oswald, 1918).
Set in mid-19th-century Berlin, the plot of Jettchen Geberts Geschichte/Jettchen Gebert's Story (Richard Oswald, 1918) deals with the daughter of a well-to-do Jewish merchant's family, who falls in love with a delicate but penniless writer. Her family will not accept him and forces her to marry another merchant. Georg Hermann and director Richard Oswald were the writers of the story. The film was made in two parts. The first episode was called Jettchen Gebert, and the second was called Henriette Jacoby. The film is considered lost.
German postcard by Photochemie, Berlin, no. K. 3104. Photo: Alex Binder.
Manja Tzatschewa (1897-1966) was a Bulgarian actress who worked in the German silent cinema of the late 1910s and early 1920s. After her film debut in 1917, she played leading roles in films by Lupu Pick and her husband Manfred Noa. Often, she performed as a temperamental Oriental young woman.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 505/2, 1919-1924. Photo: Kosel, Wien, 1922 / Micco Film.
Prima ballerina, dancer, singer and actress Liane Haid (1895-2000) was the first film star of Austria. She was the epitome of the 'Süßes Wiener Mädel' (Sweet Viennese Girl), and from the mid-1910s on, she made close to a hundred films.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5893/2, 1930-1931. Photo: Atelier Balázs, Berlin.
Swedish postcard by Nordisk Konst, Stockholm, no. 1016. Photo: Nordisk Films Kompagni, Copenhagen.
Elisabeth Frederiksen (1899-1963) was a Swedish actress and operetta singer who acted in a few Danish silent films.
French postcard by J.R.P.R., Paris, no. 465. Photo: First National.
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.
Austrian postcard by Iris-Verlag, no. 358-1. Photo: Paramount-Film.
Norwegian-American Greta Nissen (1906–1988) was a blonde bombshell who appeared in more than 30 films in Denmark, the United States and England. Unfortunately, she is now most famous for a role which was re-shot with another actress.
Austrian postcard by Iris Verlag, no. 793. Photo: Fanamet-Film.
American silent film actress Constance Talmadge (1898-1973) was one of the biggest stars of the 1920s, together with her sister Norma. She had her breakthrough in a double role in D.W. Griffith's classic Intolerance (1916). 'Connie' Talmadge appeared in 83 films, mostly romantic comedies, for which Anita Loos wrote several scripts.
Vintage postcard, no. SP210. Dorothy Provine in the TV series The Roaring '20s (1960-1962).
American actress Dorothy Provine (1935-2010) was a flashy, leggy, bouffant blonde in late 1950s and early 1960s TV series. She is best remembered as Pinky Pinkham, the Charleston-dancing flapper in the adventure series The Roaring '20s (1960-1962). Her film roles included It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Great Race (1965) and That Darn Cat! (1965).
All postcards: Collection Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.
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