The Gallery on this page pictures cards from the smaller sized issue of the same set of 100 cards. The cards pictured below measure approximately 1-7/16" X 2-5/8". Cards from the larger, medium-sized, set measure 2-1/16" x 2-5/8"".
Side by side, Sylvia Sidney pictured from both the medium and small sets of 1934 Wills Famous Film Stars. The smaller card appears darker but that is from toning, a condition issue. They appeared the same in color when originally issued.
As you can see both cards are absolutely the same except for the size. This is simply the difference between the number of cigarettes available in the original packet.
While the Gallery on this page only shows the smaller sized 1934 Wills Famous Film Stars Cards, the Immortal Ephemera Store listings embedded elsewhere on this page may contain some of the larger sized cards. (They are distinguished with an MD as opposed to a SM in the listing title.)
These tobacco cards were issued out of Australia by the tobacco company W.D. & H.O. Wills.
Several of the poses seem to be images also used in the 1934 Ardath British Born Film Stars and 1934 Ardath Famous Film Star sets of tobacco cards.
1934 Wills Famous Film Stars Gallery
The following gallery includes images of all 100 cards from the 1934 Wills Famous Film Stars set plus examples of the reverse side of the first and last cards in the set. Just click on any image to open to full size and from there you can scroll through them all.
1934 Wills Famous Film Stars Tobacco Card Checklist
Same checklist for both the small and medium sized Famous Film Stars sets.
1 - Minna Gombell
2 - Joan Marsh
3 - Janet Gaynor
4 - Katharine Hepburn
5 - Claudette Colbert
6 - Kay Francis
7 - Ann Harding
8 - Marlene Dietrich
9 - Marion Nixon
10 - Joan Blondell
11 - Irene Dunne (Dunn on card)
12 - Constance Cummings (Cummins on card)
13 - Sally Eilers
14 - Gloria Stuart
15 - Lilyan Tashman
16 - Loretta Young
17 - Sylvia Sidney
18 - Zasu Pitts
19 - Tala Birell
20 - Tallulah Bankhead
21 - Nancy Carroll
22 - Gloria Swanson
23 - Joan Bennett
24 - Miriam Hopkins
25 - Gwili Andre
26 - William Powell
27 - Charles Ruggles
28 - Carole Lombard
29 - Adolphe Menjou
30 - Edna May Oliver
31 - Eddie Cantor
32 - Gary Cooper
33 - Sidney Fox
34 - Charles Farrell
35 - Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
36 - George O'Brien
37 - Mitzi Green
38 - Warner Baxter
39 - Joe E. Brown
40 - Lili Damita
41 - Cary Grant
42 - Barbara Stanwyck
43 - Richard Dix
44 - Renate Muller
45 - Winifred Shotter
46 - Miriam Jordan
47 - George Brent
48 - Richard Arlen
49 - Greta Nissen
50 - Fredric March
51 - Bette Davis
52 - Lawrence Tibbett
53 - Edmund Lowe
54 - Jeanette MacDonald
55 - John Boles
56 - Lilian Harvey
57 - Elissa Landi
58 - Wynne Gibson
59 - Evelyn Laye
60 - George Raft
61 - Clara Bow
62 - Owen Nares
63 - Mary Brough
64 - Lupe Velez
65 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
66 - Maurice Chevalier
67 - Alison Skipworth
68 - Roland Young
69 - Constance Bennett
70 - Harold Lloyd
71 - Charles Chaplin
72 - Joel McCrea
73 - Joan Barry
74 - Sari Maritza
75 - Laurel and Hardy
76 - Jack Hulbert
77 - Charles Laughton
78 - Paul Lukas
79 - Sydney Howard
80 - Herbert Marshall
81 - Ronald Colman
82 - Melvyn Douglas
83 - Victor McLaglen
84 - Hugh Wakefield
85 - O.P. Heggie
86 - Edna Best
87 - Adrianne Allen
88 - Cicely Courtneidge
89 - Clive Brook
90 - Gracie Fields
91 - Ralph Lynn
92 - Tom Walls
93 - Jack Buchanan
94 - Gertrude Lawrence
95 - Judy Kelly
96 - Angela Baddeley
97 - Betty Stockfield
98 - Leslie Howard
99 - Madeleine Carroll
100 - Ursula Jeans
