German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4013/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Defina / First National.
American actress Colleen Moore (1899-1988) was a star of the silent screen who appeared in about 100 films beginning in 1917. During the 1920s, she put her stamp on American social history, creating in dozens of films the image of the wide-eyed, insouciant flapper with her bobbed hair and short skirts.
American postcard in the O.K. Series by American Post Card Co., New York.
American actress Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) was a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Her career as a stage, screen and radio actress spanned six decades, and she was regarded as 'The First Lady of the American Theatre'. She made 15 silent pictures between 1914 and 1919, most of them for the Metro Pictures studio.
Spanish postcard in the Estrellas del Cine series, no. 180. Photo: Warner Bros.
Marian Marsh (1913-2006) was one of the early sound era's most attractive young leading ladies. Doll-faced Marsh enjoyed a short yet significant film career as the star of several memorable 1930s melodramas opposite some of the cinema's best, most charismatic lead actors. She had a plum role opposite John Barrymore in Svengali (1931), the tragic tale of an artist's model who becomes a great singing diva under the hypnotic tutelage of the malevolent Svengali.
Dutch postcard by J.S.A., no. 142. Photo: MGM.
Dorothy Sebastian (1903-1957) was a US actress who rose to fame in the last days of silent cinema. She played 'the other woman' opposite Greta Garbo in The Single Standard (1929).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6812/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Atelier Manassé, Wien.
Anny Ondra (1903-1987) was a Polish-Czech-Austrian-German-French singer, film, and stage actress. During the 1920s and 1930s, she was a popular actress in Czech, Austrian and German comedies and she was Alfred Hitchcock’s first ‘Blonde’.
Austrian postcard by Iris Verlag, no. 5401. Photo: Excelsior Film / Phoebus.
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.
Dutch postcard by VanHem.
Helen Forrest (1917-1999) was a celebrated American singer and actress, often dubbed 'the voice of the World War II era'. Her rich, emotive vocals defined the Swing era. Her remarkable career spanned work with three of the era's greatest bandleaders, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James.
Dutch postcard by VanHem.
American actress Dorothy Morris (1921-2011) was one of the girls-next-door of the golden age of Hollywood. Although her career was relatively brief, Morris showcased range and an undeniable screen presence.
American postcard by Ludlow Sales, New York, NY, no. FC-91. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942).
Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) is an icon of Hollywood cinema. His private detectives, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Phillip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946), became the models for detectives in other Film-Noirs. Bogart and 19-year-old Lauren Bacall fell in love when they filmed To Have and Have Not (1944), the first of a series of films together. He won the Best Actor Oscar for The African Queen (1951). He was also nominated for Casablanca (1942) and as Captain Queeg in Mutiny on the Caine (1954).
Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) was ‘Sweden's illustrious gift to Hollywood’. In the 1940s, the fresh and naturally beautiful actress won three Oscars, twice an Emmy, and once a Tony Award for Best Actress. Little known is that before she went to Hollywood, she already had a European film career.
Dutch postcard, no. AX 499. Photo: Warner Bros.
In a career of five decades. American actress Ruth Roman (1922–1999) transitioned flawlessly from ingénue to leading lady to character actress. She is memorable as the murderous villain in the classic Film Noir The Window (1949) and as Farley Granger's elegant girlfriend in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Strangers on a Train (1951).
Dutch postcard by Takken / 't Sticht, no. AX 608. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Green-eyed beauty Jean Peters (1926-2000) flashed across the screen in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Peters did not want to be turned into a sex symbol. She preferred to play unglamorous, down-to-earth women. After just seven years as a bright star of 20th Century Fox, she joined the reclusive lifestyle of her eccentric billionaire husband, Howard Hughes, and became his second wife.
Dutch postcard by Takken / 't Sticht, no. AX 196. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Jane Powell (1929) was the singing and dancing star of MGM musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. She is best known for her role as Milly in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).
Spanish postcard by Postal Oscarcolor, no. 379. Photo: Jane Fonda in The Chapman Report (George Cukor, 1962).
American actress Jane Fonda (1937) is a two-time Academy Award winner for the crime thriller Klute (1971) and the Vietnam drama Coming Home (1978). Roger Vadim's psychedelic Science Fiction spoof Barbarella (1968) made her one of the icons of the European cinema of the 1960s. In 2014, she received the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award.
Spanish postcard by Postales Recuadro Blanco by Vikingo, Barcelona, no. 480.
American singer and actress Nancy Sinatra (1940) is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains best known for her 1966 signature hit 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin''.
Spanish postcard by Productos Compactos S.A.
American actress Meryl Streep (1949) is one of the best actresses of her generation, known for her versatility and accents. She has been nominated for the Oscar an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Among her other accolades, she has received 32 Golden Globe nominations, more than any other person, and won eight.
All postcards in this post are from the collection of the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.
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