British postcard in the ‘Pictures’ Portrait Gallery, London. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2aqe3TV
Read More →British postcard in the ‘Pictures’ Portrait Gallery, London. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2bNLaTR
Read More →German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4640/1, 1929-1930. Photo: United Artists. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/293taNU
Read More →German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3666/2, 1928-1929. Photo: United Artists. Mary Pickford (1892-1972) was a legendary silent film actress and was known as ‘America’s sweetheart.’ She was a founder of United Artists and helped establish the Academy. Mary Pickford was born Gladys Mary Smith in 1892, in Toronto, Canada. Read More →
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 689/1, 1919-1924. Photo: Terra-Film, Berlin. Publicity still of Katherine Griffith and Mary Pickford in the film Pollyanna (Paul Powell, 1920), released in Germany as Sonne im Herzen (Sunshine in her Heart). via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2aqe2tR
Read More →German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5214/2, 1930-1931. Photo: publicity still for The Taming of the Shrew (Sam Taylor, 1929). Dutch writing: birthday 8 April 1893. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2aGYKew
Read More →Russian postcard. Moscow, ‘Gozniak’, 1928. No. A-11967. The card was issued in an edition of 25.000 copies. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2aqe184
Read More →Italian postcard by Casa Editrice Ballerini & Fratini, Firenze (B.F.F.), no. 199. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn, Roma (MGM). Publicity still for La Bohème (King Vidor, 1926). American actress Lillian Gish (1893-1993) was ‘The First Lady of the Silent Screen’. During the 1910s, she was one of director D.W. Griffith’s greatest stars. She Read More →
French postcard, no. 1. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for On the Town (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1949). Blonde, slim Vera-Ellen (1921-1981) was one of the most vivacious and vibrant musical film talents to glide through Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Whether performing solo or dueting with the best male Read More →
French postcard by Europe, no. 232. Photo: United Artists. Publicity still for The Son of the Sheik (George Fitzmaurice, 1926). Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) was Hollywood’s ultimate ‘Latin Lover’. The Italian-born American actor starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), The Sheik (1922), Blood Read More →
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