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A Selection of sets relating to Film & Stage Stars 1920 – 1940
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Tribute Collectables
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Abbott and Costello 2010
Abbott and Costello 2010 10 - The “Bowery Boys” Bud Abbott and Lou Costello developed into a great comedy team moving from burlesque into radio then film with a long-term contract with Universal to become amongst the most popular and highly paid entertainment of World War II. More films and a weekly TV series followed, but the partnership split up in 1957. Long after their deaths they received Lifetime Achievement Awards in recognition of their comedic careers. These black and white photos picture them singly and together with their life stories on the backs. Size 68 x 36mm
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Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
John Wayne A Tribute to The Duke 2010
John Wayne A Tribute to The Duke 2010 10 - Tribute Collectable cards are notable particularly for the comprehensive biographies on the card backs. Here, we learn John Wayne acquired the nickname ”Duke” when as a child he was inseparable from the family’s huge Airedale “Little Duke”. After a summer job in a studio prop room he began getting small parts in low-budget Westerns, but his career really took off when he featured in John Ford’s “Stagecoach” in 1939. One starring role followed another through the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s, culminating with a Best Actor Oscar for “True Grit”. The black and white photos on these cards show him in a variety of familiar roles. Size 68 x 36mm.
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Spooktastic Cards
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Karloff (Boris Karloff Tribute To The Horror Legend) 2010
Karloff (Boris Karloff Tribute To The Horror Legend) 2010 10 - Peckham-born William Pratt adopted the name Boris Karloff after emigrating to Canada and making his way to the USA where he obtained parts in silent films before shooting to stardom as the monster in Frankenstein (1931), a role turned down by Bela Lugosi, as we discover on the early cards in this series of blue and white photos illustrating the actor’s menacing looks which served him well in a succession of horror movies, revisiting the Frankenstein story several times, as a mad scientist, body snatcher, etc., as well as stage and TV work, a career recognised with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Size 68 x 36mm.
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Sporting Profiles
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Movie Idols Greta Garbo 2007
Movie Idols Greta Garbo 2007 L10 - Continuing their series on Movie Idols Sporting Profiles now bring us actress Greta Garbo. This set of 10 cards features reproductions of the colourful film posters for many of her best films, beginning in 1926 with Flesh And The Devil and ending with Two-Faced Woman in 1941. Along the way we have posters for Love, The Mysterious Lady, The Kiss and many more including the classic Mata Hari. As usual the backs give information on the film cast and date. Size 78 x 60mm.
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Cannon Press
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Screen Gems Will Hay 2009
Screen Gems Will Hay 2009 10 - A great British comedy legend Will Hay starred in a host of films in the 1930s and ‘40s following a successful stage career including four years with the Fred Karno Troupe and an appearance at the Royal Command Performance. A string of screen successes with Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott as co-stars culminated in what was hailed as his best film, “Oh Mr Porter” with more hits during the war when he combined his film career with shore-bound naval service and entertaining the troops. All these facts and more come from the text backing these black and white head and shoulders photos of Will in his most famous roles. Size 68 x 36mm.
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Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
A Tribute to Judy Garland 2010
A Tribute to Judy Garland 2010 10 - Best remembered for her award winning portrayal of Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in 1939 at the age of just 17, her hugely successful career was to be plagued by drug problems leading to her premature death at the age of 47, but not before she had starred in a string of memorable musical films including 'Strike Up The Band', 'For Me and My Girl', 'Meet Me in St. Louis' and 'A Star is Born', a film produced by her third husband Sid Luft. In the 1960s she concentrated on stage and TV appearances including 'The Judy Garland Show' in which her daughters from her first marriage, Lorna and Liza Minnelli, regularly appeared. Judy's life story is told on the backs of these black and white photo cards. Size 68 x 36mm.
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Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Astaire Legend of Dance (Fred Astaire) 2010
Astaire Legend of Dance (Fred Astaire) 2010 10 - He made it look so easy, but he would spend months perfecting his dance routines. The dancer, who made his stage debut at the age of six with his sister Adele, became the biggest musical film star of the 1930s head-lining a string of box office hits with his dancing partner Ginger Rogers, beginning with 'Flying Down to Rio' and on to 'Top Hat', 'Follow The Fleet' and more, whilst in 1948 Fred teamed up with Judy Garland for 'Easter Parade' and in 1953 with Cyd Charisse for 'The Band Wagon' and 'Silk Stockings'. Suave and jovial, this sequence of black and white photos captures Astaire at his best and the backs tell all. Size 68 x 36mm.
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Neill
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
George Formby 50th Anniversary Issue 2011
George Formby 50th Anniversary Issue 2011 10 - These black and white head and shoulders artist's portraits of George Formby invariably sporting a toothy smile, pay tribute to one of Britain's most popular entertainers of the 20th century, marking the 50th anniversary of his death on 6th March 1961. The backs tell the remarkable story of the Lancastrian who rose to fame as a banjo/ukelele playing comedian, star of stage, radio, cinema and television, who brought joy to audiences over a period of almost four decades, including a stint with ENSA entertaining front-line troops at Monty's request in World War II. Numerous hit recordings and popular films made him the highest-earning British artiste, but his life was cut short by a fatal heart attack at the age of 56. However, as these cards say, "Thanks to CDs and DVDs, George's brand of cheeky humour lives on for fans young and old alike." Size 68 x 36mm.
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Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Ginger Rogers 2010
Ginger Rogers 2010 10 - A terrific dancer, a fine singer, accomplished actress and good looking too, Ginger had everything, and was rewarded with the Best Actress Oscar in 1940. In the 1960s it was Hello Dolly on Broadway, Mame in London (including a Royal Command performance). An avid sportswoman, talented painter, respected speaker, what a girl. Read her story on these cards, the fronts of which are fine black and white photos. Size 68 x 36mm.
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Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Humphrey Bogart 2010
Humphrey Bogart 2010 10 - Born on Christmas Day, 1899, Humphrey Deforest Bogart seemed destined for a career in the medical profession until he took up acting which eventually led him to a part in the highly successful film 'The Petrified Forest' in 1936, followed by a contract with Warner Bros. which resulted in such screen gems as 'The Maltese Falcon', 'Casablanca', 'The Big Sleep' and 'Key Largo'. He won an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in 'The African Queen', but will probably be even better remembered for his gritty, gravely-voiced roles in a range of gangster movies and thrillers. Black and white photo fronts, life story backs, size 68 x 36mm.
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Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Josephine Baker (Dancer & Actress) 2010
Josephine Baker (Dancer & Actress) 2010 10 - Throughout her flamboyant life, Josephine Baker, was as much known for her celebrity status as for the dancing talent that first made her famous. Heading to Paris from America in 1925 at the age of 19, she became a sensation in ‘La Revue Negre’, then star of the Folies Bergere. Having taken French citizenship, she became a wartime Resistance courier and spy, for which she was awarded the Croix de Guerre. In the 1950s she returned to the States and took up the civil rights cause, but the later years were back in France and she became the first American woman to receive a state funeral in that country. Photo fronts, story backs, size 68 x 36mm.
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Sporting Profiles
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Movie Idols Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 2005
Movie Idols Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 2005 L10 - Ten reproductions of original cinema posters featuring musicals from 1933 (Flying Down to Rio) through to 1946 (The Berkleys of Broadway). Included are two of my favourites, Top Hat and Follow The Fleet, the latter with Randolph Scott and Betty Gable helping Seaman Bake Baker (Astaire) and nightclub dancer Sherry Martin (Rogers) make the most of Irving Berlin’s delightful score. Size 78 x 60mm.
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Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Victor Mature 2010
Victor Mature 2010 10 - Victor Mature's career which is remembered as much for his strong, muscular physique as for his screen presence. Strangely enough, his final film role was as Samson’s father in a TV remake. Three colour and seven black and white pictures are on the fronts and Victor’s life story is on the backs. Size 68 x 36mm.
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Sherman
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Famous Film Stars 1940
Famous Film Stars 1940 EL8 -
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Sporting Profiles
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Movie Idols The Marx Brothers 2006
Movie Idols The Marx Brothers 2006 L12 - One of the all-time great comedy partnerships was forged by the Marx brothers Chico (real name Leonard), Harpo (Adolph), Groucho (Julius) and Zeppo (Zeppo!) Their first film as a team was in 1925, but this latest card series of Movie Idols begins in 1929 with “The Cocoanuts” and treats us to “Animal Crackers”, “Monkey Business”, “Horse Feathers”, “Duck Soup”, “A Night at the Opera”, “A Day at the Races” and so on through to “The Big Store” (1941), their last team-effort, plus two further films minus Zeppo, all recalled on the original film posters. Size 77 x 60mm.
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Smith
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Cinema Stars 1920 reprint 1987
Cinema Stars 1920 reprint 1987 25 -
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Sporting Profiles
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Movie Idols John Wayne Series 3 (War Films) 2010
Movie Idols John Wayne Series 3 (War Films) 2010 L15 - So prolific was the ‘Duke’, aka John Wayne the original tough guy, that Sporting Profiles have had no problem in putting together another fifteen posters featuring his starring roles in films. This selection starts with “The Sea Spoilers” (1936) and “Seven Sinners” (1940) followed by five great action movies set in World War II, the most famous of which is probably “Sands of Iwo Jima” with Wayne as the gritty Sergeant Stryker. The twelfth card has him in the all-star cast of the 1962 blockbuster “The Longest Day” and the final appearance “The Green Berets” (1968). The main actors in each film are listed on the backs. Size 78 x 60mm.
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Sporting Profiles
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Movie Idols Basil Rathbone is Sherlock Holmes 2004
Movie Idols Basil Rathbone is Sherlock Holmes 2004 L15 - A real treat for Holmes fans this set from Sporting Profiles, the second of their Movie Idols” productions (Humphrey Bogart was last year’s choice) features South African born, English-educated Hollywood star Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson in fourteen films made between 1939 and 1946, as listed on the 15th card. Each is a colour reproduction of the advertising poster, with the principal cast members listed on the back. Included are such classics as The Hound of The Baskervilles, The Scarlet Claw, Terror by Night and Dressed to Kill. Size 77 x 60m
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Sporting Profiles
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Movie Idols John Wayne Series 1 (Cowboy Films) 2007
Movie Idols John Wayne Series 1 (Cowboy Films) 2007 L20 - This is the prequel to Series 2 (issued in July 2006) which featured Wayne’s films released between 1944 ad 1976. Volume 1 now covers his earlier appearances started with ‘Haunted Gold’ in 1932 and culminating in the 1939 film ‘Stagecoach’ which was a huge critical success and brought superstar status for Marian Morrison (John’s real name). The fronts are colour reproductions of the original cinema posters and the casts are listed on the backs. Size 78 x 60mm.
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Players
Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940
Film Stars 3rd Series 1938 (reprint 1989)
Film Stars 3rd Series 1938 (reprint 1989) 50 -
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