Scarce vintage 3.25 x 5.25-inch German Ross Verlag postcard portrait, boldly signed in thick black pencil, as was sometimes her custom, around the time of Metropolis (1927). In good condition, with a rubberstamped owner's label on the verso. Best remembered for her portrayal of Maria, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's dystopian classic Metropolis (1927), lovely German silent and early talkie film star Brigitte Helm made several other contributions to the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres, portraying Alraune ten Brinken in A Daughter of Destiny (1928) and Alraune (1930); Antinea in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's L'Atlantide (1932), Queen of Atlantis (1932) and The Lost Atlantis (1932); and Florence Wills in Gold (1934).

• Tweet