About these Cards
Issued by John Player & Sons, Branch of the Imperial Tobacco Company.
50 card set from Great Britain.
Each card measures approximately 1-3/8" X 2-5/8".
Colorful painted images, white borders.
Adhesive backs. Often found pasted into accompanying album. Common cards, but be sure to check for back damage.
Descriptive text on reverse.
Key cards include Johnny Weissmuller, Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and several other major Hollywood stars.
Available for sale in the Immortal Ephemera Store:
Gallery and Checklist follow below Store listings
Gallery of 1934 Player's Series 1 Movie Cards
Just click on any image to open to full size and from there you can scroll through the entire set. Both sides of all 50 cards are shown. Text listing of contents follows below.
1934 John Player & Sons Film Stars First Series Checklist:
1 - Gwili Andre
2 - Richard Arlen
3 - George Arliss
4 - Warner Baxter
5 - Joan Bennett
6 - Tala Birell
7 - George Brent
8 - Clive Brook
9 - Madeleine Carroll
10 - Nancy Carroll
11 - Gary Cooper
12 - Joan Crawford
13 - Constance Cummings
14 - Bette Davis
15 - Marlene Dietrich
16 - James Dunn
17 - Sally Eilers
18 - Madge Evans
19 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
20 - Kay Francis
21 - Clark Gable
22 - Greta Garbo
23 - William Haines
24 - Jean Harlow
25 - Lilian Harvey
26 - Katharine Hepburn
27 - Jack Holt
28 - Dorothy Jordan
29 - Elissa Landi
30 - Charles Laughton
31 - Gertrude Lawrence
32 - Carole Lombard
33 - Myrna Loy
34 - Paul Lukas
35 - Ralph Lynn
36 - Boots Mallory
37 - Fredric March
38 - Sari Maritza
39 - Jessie Matthews
40 - Joel McCrea
41 - Robert Montgomery
42 - Karen Morley
43 - Ramon Novarro
44 - Norma Shearer
45 - Sylvia Sidney
46 - Raquel Torres
47 - Tom Walls
48 - Johnny Weissmuller
49 - Diana Wynyard
50 - Loretta Young