Index of 1920s Movie Cards & Collectibles

1920s Movie Cards and Collectibles

The War is over. Silent film continues to advance as stories are better told and more artfully filmed. The flapper arrives as the '20s begin to roar. Jolson sings in The Jazz Singer and everything changes. Early talkies are typically static with clumsy dialogue often delivered by actors who never had to be heard before. Meanwhile silent film continues to advance with many of the greatest titles releasing near the end of the decade. Nobody cares.

Peace and prosperity and plenty of card and collectible issues to roll off the presses worldwide! The best sets feature handfuls of our beloved silent clowns: Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd; our best American cowboys: Mix and Hart; young flappers: Clara Bow and Louise Brooks; great action and dramatic stars: Pickford, Fairbanks, Valentino, Swanson; and the most famous character actor of them all: Lon Chaney.

The following pages describe each issue named in the title and include both a gallery and checklist naming and often showing either a complete set or all of the cards from that set that I have handled.