About 1934 Carreras Film Stars Oval Tobacco Cards
Issued by Arcadia Works. From Britain. Measure appx. 1-3/16" X 2-11/16" at its widest points.
There are two variations of this set, what Murray's refers to as a Half-Tone and a more popular Real Photo set and Troy Kirk calls a gray tone and a brown tone glossy. The Real Photo/Brown Tone Glossy are the more desirable variation. Carreras also issued a "Popular Personalities" set of oval cards the following year which includes a few film stars but is more a set of general celebrities.
Issued on a pretty thin card stock and commonly found mounted in an album meaning singles are often seen with back damage and are prone to chipping along the edges. The unusual oval shape makes a very popular seller! Plus the set contains most of the biggest Golden Age stars with the most valuable cards in the set being the card of The Four Marx Brothers and then the Laurel and Hardy card.
A gallery of all 72 cards follows with a text checklist underneath that and currently available store listings under the checklist.
1934 Carreras Film Stars Gallery
The following gallery includes images of all 72 cards from the 1934 Carreras Film Stars set of oval Tobacco Cards. Just click on any image to open to full size and from there you can scroll through them all.
Checklist of All 1934 Carreras Film Stars Tobacco Cards
1 - Fredric March
2 - Clark Gable
3 - Robert Montgomery
4 - Carole Lombard
5 - Genevieve Tobin
6 - Ramon Novarro
7 - Myrna Loy
8 - Gordon Harker
9 - Ruby Keeler
10 - Edward G. Robinson
11 - Cicely Courtneidge
12 - Conrad Veidt
13 - Paul Lukas
14 - Anna Neagle
15 - Ruth Chatterton
16 - Ralph Lynn & Tom Walls
17 - Clive Brook
18 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
19 - Wallace Beery
20 - Joan Blondell
21 - Jean Harlow
22 - Jessie Matthews
23 - ZaSu Pitts
24 - Ricardo Cortez
25 - Jack Oakie
26 - Lee Tracy
27 - Gracie Fields
28 - Constance Cummings
29 - Sylvia Sidney
30 - Greta Garbo
31 - Claudette Colbert
32 - Norma Shearer
33 - Richard Dix
34 - Charles Laughton
35 - The Marx Brothers
36 - Katharine Hepburn
37 - Jeannette MacDonald
38 - Loretta Young
39 - Marlene Dietrich
40 - Joan Crawford
41 - Kay Francis
42 - Sally Eilers
43 - Gary Cooper
44 - Elisabeth Bergner
45 - Marie Dressler
46 - George Raft
47 - Madge Evans
48 - Janet Gaynor
49 - Maurice Chevalier
50 - Leslie Howard
51 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke
52 - William Powell
53 - Madeleine Carroll and Herbert Marshall
54 - Lionel Barrymore
55 - Heather Angel
56 - Ida Lupino
57 - Marion Davies
58 - Jack Buchanan
59 - Binnie Barnes
60 - Ann Harding
61 - Miriam Hopkins
62 - Stanley Lupino
63 - Lilian Harvey
64 - Maureen O'Sullivan
65 - Elissa Landi
66 - Mae West
67 - Laurel and Hardy
68 - Jack Hulbert
69 - Sydney Howard
70 - Al Jolson
71 - Ginger Rogers
72 - John Gilbert
