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Italian postcard. Caesar Film. Edited by the magazine Film (Naples/Rome).

Italian actor Gustavo Serena (1882-1970) is most remembered as Francesca Bertini's co-star, but he did more than that. See also filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2010/08/gustavo-serena.html

French postcard. Editions E.C., Paris. Photo G.L. Manuel Frères, Paris.

Harry Baur (1880-1943) was a famous French film and stage actor. Directed by directors as wide-ranging as Julien Duvivier, Raymond Bernard, Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Pierre Chenal, Robert Siodmak and Maurice Tourneur, he switched just as easily from père Lepic of Poil de carotte, to commissaire Maigret, Jean Valjean from Les Misérables, judge Porphyre from Crime et chatiment, Hérode, Tarass Boulba, Beethoven, captain Mollenard, czar Paul I, Rasputin, and Volpone.

Italian postcard. IPA CT Duplex. Tiber Fim, Roma, no. 5071.

Saccard (Claudio Nicola) surprises Renée (Hesperia) and Max (Alberto Collo) in La cuccagna (Baldassarre Negroni 1917). The film was an adaptation of Emile Zola's La curée. Hesperia is Renata/Renée, second wife of the cunning and wealthy Saccard, who married young Renata for her money. She has an affair with Saccard's son Max, played by Collo. In the end money triumphs instead of love, just as in Zola's novel. On this postcard the father (left) looks not much older than the son (right).

Hesperia (1885-1959), was one of the Italian divas of the silent screen. She often worked with director Baldassarre Negroni, who later became her husband. See also filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2012/01/hesperia.html

Italian postcard. IPA CT Duplex. Tiber Film, Roma, no. 5105.

Hesperia and Ida Carloni Talli in L'aigrette (Baldassarre Negroni 1917), misspelled by IMDB as L'aiglette, was an adapation of play by Dario Niccodemi. The countess of Saint-Servant (Ida Carolini Talli) has raised her son Enrico (Tullio Carminati) to be proud of his name and title, and to cherish honour and virtue, symbolised by the feather of her aigrette. In reality the countess is hunted by creditors, the castle is falling apart. Enrico falls in love with Susanne Leblanc (Hesperia), wife of banker, and in return she loads him with money in order to restore the castle. Her husband (André Habay) is not so happy with this kind of charity...

Hesperia (1885-1959), was one of the Italian divas of the silent screen. She often worked with director Baldassarre Negroni, who later became her husband. See also filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2012/01/hesperia.html

Promotion card by Philips, no. GF 025 66/13.

Xavier Cugat (1900 – 1990) was a Spanish-American bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, he was a key personality in the spread of Latin music in United States popular music. In New York, his was the leader of the resident orchestra at the Waldorf-Astoria before and after World War II.