silent
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British postcard in the ‘Pictures’ Portrait Gallery, London. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2bNLaTR
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German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4640/1, 1929-1930. Photo: United Artists. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/293taNU
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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. She was the sister of…
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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
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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
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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
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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 appeared in features such as…
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French postcard by Europe, no. 160. 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. She was the sister of actor/director Jack Pickford and stage/screen…
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Italian postcard by Vettori, Bologna, no. 2094. 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 and Sand (1922), The…
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German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3100/2, 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. She was the sister of…
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