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Vintage original 3.5 x 5.25 in. German postcard depicting the beautiful German silent film and sound era actress, ELGA BRINK. She is depicted in a close publicity shot wearing an off-the-shoulder dress with a crepe wrapping and showcasing a short platinum blonde hairdo, all of which is complimented by a white halo effect around her head. This postcard was signed in black ink by Elga Brink in, we believe, 1926 (see "Provenance" below), the year in which she appeared in five silent films. Printed in Berlin, this vintage original silent film postcard is unused in very fine condition with a light diagonal mark on the top right and bottom left corners from where it was inserted into one of the albums described below.
Provenance: Approximately 8 years ago, we purchased a collection of two albums of vintage original German postcards from a rare book dealer at an antiquarian book fair in Pasadena, California (see photos). Approximately half of the postcards were signed by the respective personalities and the ones that were dated by the actors are all dated "1926." We were informed by the dealer that these photographs came from a film collector in Germany who acquired the postcards at the time they were issued and then had them signed by the respective actors when he met them in person. We are now pleased to make these vintage original postcards available to other collectors.
Elisabeth Margarete Frey (April 2, 1905 - Waidmannslust, Berlin, Germany – October 28, 1985), known professionally as Elga Brink, was a German film actress. She was introduced to silent films by Albert Pommer, the brother of famed producer Erich Pommer. Her first role was in a romantic comedy, Lebenshunger, where she played a supporting role alongside Ressel Orla. After several more films, Brink rose to prominence in the 1924 epic, Quo Vadis, starring Emil Jannings. Long considered a lost film, in 2012, Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reported that a copy of the film was found in the Vatican Film Library. She starred in a number of films, and her partner was Georg Jacoby, and was known for Der dumme August des Zirkus Romanelli (1926) and Die schönste Frau von Paris (1928). Her last silent film was Marriage in Trouble in 1928. She continued acting in sound films, including Strafsache van Geldern (1932), and her last role was in a 1951 film, Das fremde Leben. After WWI, she worked on the stage until she retired in 1951. After her retirement, Brink remarried (to Fritz Borchardt) and later worked for a law firm in Hamburg under the name Elisabeth Biermann until her death on October 28, 1985 in Hamburg, Germany.
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