This chapter sheds light on the continuities and discontinuities between theater fandom and early film fandom in the 1910s by focusing on the representation of actors and actresses on postcards and the practices in connection with these cards. Drawing on a variety of postcards showing the Danish film star Olaf Fønss and fan letters from the German language area, the article asserts that, although collecting actors and actresses on postcards was by no means a new practice, the purely medial relationship between film star and fan implied a perceptual distance that had to be bridged. In order to assure themselves of the ontological existence of the persons behind their cinematic shadows, fans seem to have preferred civil portrait cards to postcards showing the actors and actresses ‘in character’. At the same time, the emergence of stars was reflected in and supported by the postcards collected by the fans. Finally, a comparative look is taken at postcards featuring Asta Nielsen.