1939 Rothman’s Beauties of the Cinema tobacco cards from Great Britain. Each card measures approximately 1-9/16″ X 2-9/16″. Unnumbered, 40 card set. As you’ll see below, these are quite obviously the more standard rectangular cards, but there’s also a smaller 24 card set of the same name issued in the same year by Rothmans where the cards are round. All 40 cards are shown below:
This page is intended to provide you will all of the possible tools required to view, research, collect, and even purchase the cards in this set, as well as the classic film stars included in this set.
Checklist, alphabetical by last name:
Heather Angel
Constance Bennett
Joan Bennett
Elisabeth Bergner
Tala Birell
Sally Blane
Joan Blondell
Chili Bouchier
Mary Carlisle
Madeleine Carroll
Claudette Colbert
Joan Crawford
Kathryn Crawford
Marion Davies
Dolores Del Rio
Marlene Dietrich
Irene Dunne
Sydney Fox
Kay Francis
Greta Garbo
Janet Gaynor
Dorothy Gulliver
Jean Harlow
Lilian Harvey
Rose Hobart
Myrna Loy
June Marlowe
Jessie Matthews
Grace Moore
Merle Oberon
Norma Shearer
Barbara Stanwyck
Anna Sten
Gloria Stuart
Lupita Tovar
Mae West
Anna May Wong
Fay Wray
Diana Wynyard
Loretta Young
Note: Any names linked from the above checklist lead to original biographies of that star written especially for things-and-other-stuff.com
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1926 Gallaher “Cinema Stars” Tobacco Cards issued by Gallaher Ltd. out of Belfast & London. 100 card set. Measures 1-1/2″ x 2-1/2″.
1948 Dinkie Grips card from Series 3 covering MGM films. Full cards with unpunctured “grips” area at bottom measure approximately 2-1/8″ X 4-1/4″. Issued out of Birmingham, England by Dinkie Products with ad on back for Dinkie Grips as well as other Dinkie Products (Dinkie Curlers and Wavesetters).
1939 Gallaher “My Favourite Part” Tobacco Cards issued out of London, measuring approximately 1-1/2″ X 2-1/2″.
