Movie star playing cards

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In the late s, the Movie Souvenir Card Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, manufactured several decks of playing cards with photographs of movie stars on the faces of the cards. At least 24 different packs were issued from to Not all packs have survived, nor are all known existing packs complete. What follows is a list of the movie stars who appear on the cards known to still exist, and the cards that their photos appeared on. Some stars appear on more than one card. Others have different photographs on the same card.

Movie star playing cards

Moviestars from the golden age of cinema by Offason AB of Sweden, c. Manage your collection, tradelist and wishlist. Add this pack to your collection? Moviestars from the golden age of cinema designed by Joakim Thedin with a retro look and printed by Offason AB of Sweden, c. Each card shows an original studio portrait of a named movie star, some including an autograph, plus 3 Marx brothers jokers. Images courtesy Matt Probert. I have adored playing cards since before I was seven years old, and was brought up on packs of Waddington's No 1. As a child I was fascinated by the pictures of the court cards. Over the next fifty years I was seduced by the artwork in Piatnik's packs and became a collector of playing cards. Seeking more information about various unidentified packs I discovered the World of Playing Cards website and became an enthusiastic contributor researching and documenting different packs of cards. I describe my self as a playing card archaeologist, using detective work to identify and date obscure packs of cards discovered in old houses, flea markets and car boot sales. A deck of 55 cards, celebrating the master of mystery, murder and mayhem, Alfred Hitchcock.

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Moviestars from the golden age of cinema by Offason AB of Sweden, c. Manage your collection, tradelist and wishlist. Add this pack to your collection? Moviestars from the golden age of cinema designed by Joakim Thedin with a retro look and printed by Offason AB of Sweden, c. Each card shows an original studio portrait of a named movie star, some including an autograph, plus 3 Marx brothers jokers. Images courtesy Matt Probert. I have adored playing cards since before I was seven years old, and was brought up on packs of Waddington's No 1. As a child I was fascinated by the pictures of the court cards. Over the next fifty years I was seduced by the artwork in Piatnik's packs and became a collector of playing cards. Seeking more information about various unidentified packs I discovered the World of Playing Cards website and became an enthusiastic contributor researching and documenting different packs of cards.

Movie star playing cards

This deck of Movie Souvenir Playing Cards was issued with a different card of a period movie star for each number and suit, plus Charlie Chaplin fittingly as the Joker. Several variations throughout as described below. Issued out of Cincinnati in the USA. Same chariot scene on reverse of each card. High grade examples maintain a gold gilt finish on the edges. I usually buy these decks to split them up and make single cards available for collectors. In the process of doing so I have found several different film stars represented in different decks. It is likely that the first version of the deck was in fact issued at the copyright date, while subsequent issues featured new cards over the next three or four years. Deck 21 actually come courtesy of Garry from Australia, who was also kind enough to supply 3 images of new variations he came across.

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Our Most Intricate. Pixel Tarot This tarot deck pays tribute to the golden age of pixelated video games, drawing inspiration from th Tell us what you think about this feature. Actor The Ocean Waif. Kathlyn Williams Actress The Rosary Pioneer silver screen star Kathlyn Williams is primarily known as the spry blonde of the very first Hollywood cliffhanger, The Adventures of Kathlyn , in which her real first name was used in the title. Actor Captain Midnight. A noted stage actor at the turn of the 20th century, Robert Edeson began his film career working with Cecil B. She rose to stardom in Cecil B. Actor Creature from the Black Lagoon. He was paired with Mary Pickford , Kathlyn Williams and Dorothy Davenport , among others, but his most popular films had him as the lover of May Allison , and they became one of Her adoptive Vivian's first step to fame had come in , when the impresario George M. Actress The Telephone Girl.

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William made his stage debut at the age of 10 in Richmond, Virginia, in a production of "Julius Caesar" starring Edwin She rose to stardom in Cecil B. Actor Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman. Life in industrial Pittsburgh at the time, spelled "Pittsburg" was depressing Actor Jim Webb, Senator. As soon as Dorothy and her sister Lillian Gish were old enough, they became Actor The Bridge on the River Kwai. His father was the provincial governor and his mother a member of an aristocratic family of the "samurai" class. She died Silent-screen actress Ethel Clayton was a convent-educated girl from Champaign, IL, who sought work as a stage actress after finishing her education. Coming from a theatrical family her mother was an actress , Pauline Curley was an actress from the age of five, and toured the vaudeville circuit with her family. She was married to Charles Thomas Hvass Sr. She was a dancer by the time she was four and a talented actress by when she started work at the Biograph with D.