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You may remember our cinema
correspondent David Williams telling us about Alexander Korda's film "Elephant
Boy" in last November's Card Collectors News magazine and some of you will have
seen it screened on television in July this year. It was one of 1937's big
budget epics, and made a star of true-life elephant boy Sabu, pictured below in
our set of the month, Jackson's M24 Shots from the Films. Another newcomer that
year was Humphrey Bogart. His tough-man role in "Black Legion" is described on
card no.8. The late 1930's were the heyday of the film musical, and Britain's
no. 1 female singing and dancing star was Jessie Matthews in a still taken from
"Head Over Hells". And there's nothing new about American film makers siding
with "heroic Irish fighters" in their bid for freedom from "British tyranny",
as we see in "The Plough and the Stars". 1937 was a vintage year for the
cinema, as is demonstrated by this set which also pictures scenes from "King
Solomon's Mines", "Romeo & Juliet", The Charge of the Light Brigade" with
Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, and "A Woman Rebels" starring a youthful
and beautiful Katherine Hepburn. Wonderful Stuff! |
