Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag. Eneret, no. 432.
American actor William Farnum (1876-1953) was one of the first major movie stars. From 1914 to 1925, Farnum was one of the biggest sensations in Hollywood, earning $10,000 a week. Farnum's silent pictures include the Westerns The Spoilers (1914), which culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight, Drag Harlan (1920) and the drama-adventure If I Were King (1921).
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 452.
Betty Compson (1897–1974) was an American actress and film producer. She peaked in silent cinema and early talkies, and is best known for her performances as a suicidal prostitute rescued by a stoker (George Bancroft) in The Docks of New York (Joseph Von Sternberg, 1928), and as the manipulative carnival girl Carrie in the part-talkie The Barker (George Fitzmaurice, 1928), the latter earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag. Eneret, no. 454.
Lois Wilson (1894-1988) was an American screen and stage actress who played in about 150 silent films. She was directed by Lois Weber, William De Mille and James Cruze. She was often cast as the romantic woman and 'the marrying kind', though she didn't marry in real life.
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 472. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Dorothy Dalton (1893-1972) was an American actress who was highly popular in the silent era. She worked for Kay-Bee, Thomas Ince Corp., and Famous Players (Paramount). She left the film sets in 1924 when she married theatre producer Arthur Hammerstein.
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 500. Collection: Marlene Pilaete. Alma Bennett.
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 536. Photo: Milton Sills and Enid Bennett in The Sea Hawk (Frank Lloyd, 1924).
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.
Enid Bennett (1893–1969) was an Australian silent film actress, mostly active in American film. She peaked in the late 1910s and early 1920s with films such as Robin Hood (1922), starring Douglas Fairbanks. In 1931, she played Jackie Coogan's mother in the Oscar-winning film Skippy. She was the wife of director Fred Niblo and, after his death of director Sidney Franklin.
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 541. Lloyd Hughes in The Sea Hawk (Frank Lloyd, 1924).
Clean-cut, sensitive Lloyd Hughes (1897-1958) was an American actor of both the silent and sound film eras. He appeared in such silent classics as Tess of the Storm Country (1921), The Sea Hawk (1924), and The Lost World (1925).
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 542.
Ben Lyon (1901-1979) was an American stage, film, radio, and TV performer, as well as a studio manager. He is famous for his part as the war aviator in Hell's Angels (1930). He was married to the actresses Bebe Daniels and Marian Nixon.
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, no. 549. Photo: Ferd. Flodin, Stockholm.
Lars Hanson (1886-1965) was a highly successful Swedish film and stage actor, mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era, both in Scandinavia and Hollywood.
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 565. Milton Sills posing with the book, which was adapted to the eponymous film, The Sea Hawk (Frank Lloyd, 1924), with Sills in the lead.
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.
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 580. Barbara La Marr in The Shooting of Dan McGrew (Clarence G. Badger, 1924). Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Beautiful Barbara La Marr (1896–1926) was an American film actress, noted for her beauty and her tempestuous marital history. After some early experience in vaudeville, she became a screenplay writer and then a performer, appearing with Douglas Fairbanks and others in over thirty movies, as well as dancing on Broadway. Her hedonistic lifestyle in Hollywood, with heavy drug dependence, led to her early death.
Danish postcard by J.Ch. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 629. Photo: Nordisk. Karina Bell in the romantic comedy Kan Kvinder fejle / Can women fail? (A.W. Sandberg, 1924).
Danish actress Karina Bell (1898-1979) was one of the most popular stars of the Nordisk Films Kompagni in the 1920s. She also appeared in German and Swedish films. Kan Kvinder fejle / Can women fail? (A.W. Sandberg, 1924) was partly shot in Liguria, Italy. Sandberg told the newspapers the film crew started filming in Trieste and at Lake Garda, but in two days, two and a half meters of snow fell, forcing the crew to withdraw to Verona and Venice. As winter still chased the crew, they moved on to Bordighera on the Italian Riviera. Here, they finally got the weather they wanted, and the images were recorded under a scorching sun in 30-35 degree heat, according to A.W. Sandberg. After returning from Italy, Interior shots were taken in Valby, where, among other things, a set was built that envisioned "a wealthy home." To make the interior as compelling as possible, Sandberg almost emptied his apartment at Nørregade to provide props, such as chairs with embroidery made by his wife Elsa Fröhlich, paintings of snowy landscapes made by his father-in-law Thaulow, and an old dresser with bronze female statues by sculptor Jean René Gauguin, son of painter Paul Gauguin.
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 642. Gunnar Tolnaes and Karina Bell in the Danish film Wienerbarnet / The Little Austrian (A.W. Sandberg, 1924).
Gunnar Tolnaes (1879-1940) had his most famous performance as an Indian prince in the Danish orientalist melodrama Maharadjahens Yndlingshustru / The Maharaja's Favourite Wife (1917), with Lilly Jacobson. It was so popular that it had a Danish sequel in 1919 and a German sequel in 1921. After a substantial film career in Denmark, he alternated acting in German films as well as in Danish films until the end of the silent era.
Danish actress Karina Bell (1898-1979) was one of the most popular stars of the Nordisk Films Kompagni in the 1920s. She also appeared in German and Swedish films.
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 656. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
With her exotic looks, Nita Naldi was one of the most famous Hollywood vamps of the 1920s. She notably co-starred with Rudolph Valentino in three movies. Interestingly enough, she also had a leading role in an early Alfred Hitchcock film. About her career, she once wittily declared: "They had ermine tails and paradises in my hair and a couple of snakes coiled around my neck. In real life, believe me, any man of sensibilities would have run 20 miles to get out of my sight".
Danish postcard by J. Chr. Olsens Kunstforlag, Eneret, no. 812. Collection: Didier Hanson.
Beautiful Barbara La Marr (1896–1926) was an American film actress, noted for her beauty and her tempestuous marital history. After some early experience in vaudeville, she became a screenplay writer and then a performer, appearing with Douglas Fairbanks and others in over thirty movies, as well as dancing on Broadway. Her hedonistic lifestyle in Hollywood, with heavy drug dependence, led to her early death.
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