1936 – 1937 Nestle Stars of the Silver Screen Trading Cards

Card Characteristics

This updated page is packed with a ton of info, names and images relating to both Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the 1936 and '37 Nestle's Stars of the Silver Screen sets of trading cards from England.

A set of two galleries showing all 150 cards as well as text checklists for both series are included a bit further down this page.

Volume 1 comprises cards #1-100.
Volume 2 comprises cards #101-150.

Each of these 150 paper stock cards measures approximately 1-9/16" X 2-1/4 inches, however; I've now confirmed that larger 4-1/2" X 6-1/4 inch oversized cards were available of each as well.

Luckily I still had one of the larger variation cards on hand to show you a side by side size comparison. At one time I had approximately 50 of the larger variation Nestle cards, numbered from both series 1-150, and the card numbers and star images each matched the smaller Nestle cards currently in my possession as I create this page.

There is descriptive text on back of the larger cards that I suspect matches the text found inside the albums housing the smaller cards. Here is a scan of the reverse side of the Herbert Marshall cards:

Even more fascinating, here's how one acquired the larger cards. Similar to acquiring Dixie Premiums in exchange for Dixie Lids the following Nestle ad offers the larger variation cards in exchange for sending in a completed album of the smaller cards to their Calcutta offices.

The ad offers just 3 of the larger cards in exchange for a completed Volume 2 album while offering 6 larger cards from Series 1 for a completed Volume 1 album.

(I wish I had my Nestle bigs back--if this was the only way you could get them then I severely underpriced mine!)

There were two albums issued to house each Volume of paper stock Nestle cards. Each is shown at the very bottom of this page.

Offered in Multiple Countries

The "Stars of the Silver Screen" series of cards were Printed in England. These were also printed in Spain under the set title "Estrellas de Cine" and apparently other countries as well. I had a handful of the Spanish variation a few years ago and can show the James Cagney side by side with the British version:

Front British Stars of the Silver Screen

Reverse British Stars of the Silver Screen

Front Spanish Estrellas de Cinema

Reverse Spanish Estrellas de Cinema

Reverse British Stars of the Silver Screen

Reverse Spanish Estrellas de Cinema

1936 Nestle Stars of the Silver Screen Trading Cards - Volume 1

The following gallery includes images of all 100 cards from the 1936 first series of Nestle's Stars of the Screen Trading Cards. Text checklist follows below with gallery and checklist for Volume 2 beneath that.

1936 Nestle Stars of the Silver Screen Trading Cards - Volume 1

1 - Kay Francis
2 - Maurice Chevalier
3 - Greta Garbo
4 - Robert Montgomery
5 - Indira Devi
6 - Ronald Colman
7 - Claudette Colbert
8 - Herbert Marshall
9 - Uma Debi
10 - Jeanette MacDonald
11 - Clive Brook
12 - Madeleine Carroll
13 - Ramon Novarro
14 - Kanan Bala
15 - Aline MacMahon
16 - Loretta Young
17 - William Powell
18 - Marlene Dietrich
19 - Wallace Beery
20 - Malina Debi
21 - Marion Davies
22 - Gary Cooper
23 - Norma Shearer
24 - Lilian Harvey
25 - James Cagney
26 - Leslie Howard
27 - Elizabeth Allan
28 - Dick Powell
29 - Joan Blondell
30 - Cary Grant
31 - George Arliss
32 - Mae West
33 - Jack Buchanan
34 - Edward G. Robinson
35 - Cicely Courtneidge
36 - Merle Oberon
37 - C. Aubrey Smith
38 - Jessie Matthews
39 - Sir Guy Standing
40 - Anna May Wong
41 - Anna Sten
42 - Conrad Veidt
43 - Gracie Fields
44 - Ann Harding
45 - Sir Cedric Hardwick
46 - Charles Laughton
47 - Binnie Barnes
48 - Warren William
49 - Margaret Sullavan
50 - Lionel Barrymore
51 - Clark Gable
52 - Gloria Swanson
53 - Laurel and Hardy
54 - Jackie Cooper
55 - Anna Neagle
56 - Shirley Temple
57 - Warner Baxter
58 - Joan Crawford
59 - Otto Kruger
60 - Constance Bennett
61 - Ginger Rogers
62 - Claude Rains
63 - Diana Wynyard
64 - Marta Eggerth
65 - Carl Brisson
66 - Charles Chaplin
67 - Edna May Oliver
68 - Paul Muni
69 - Miriam Hopkins
70 - Leslie Henson
71 - Eddie Cantor
72 - Jean Harlow
73 - Tom Walls
74 - Hugh Williams
75 - Madge Evans
76 - Nova Pilbeam
77 - Ralph Lynn
78 - Elizabeth Bergner
79 - Robertson Hare
80 - Una Merkel
81 - Evelyn Laye
82 - Leslie Banks
83 - Katharine Hepburn
84 - Genevieve Tobin
85 - Sydney Howard
86 - Fredric March
87 - May Robson
88 - W - C - Fields
89 - Mary Pickford
90 - Robert Donat
91 - Jack Hulbert
92 - Dolores Del Rio
93 - Jack Holt
94 - Charles Butterworth
95 - Wynne Gibson
96 - Zasu Pitts
97 - Will Rogers
98 - Myrna Loy
99 - Edward Everett Horton
100 - Verree Teasdale

1937 Nestle Stars of the Silver Screen Trading Cards - Volume 2

The following gallery includes images of all 50 cards from the 1937 second series of Nestle's Stars of the Screen Trading Cards. Text checklist follows below. See Volume 1 above.

1937 Nestle Stars of the Silver Screen Trading Cards - Volume 2

101 - Grace Moore
102 - Bing Crosby
103 - Eleanor Powell
104 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
105 - Irene Dunne
106 - Errol Flynn
107 - Fay Wray
108 - Richard Arlen
109 - Mary Brian
110 - John Lodge
111 - Maureen O'Sullivan
112 - Walter Huston
113 - Luise Rainer
114 - Freddie Bartholomew
115 - Virginia Bruce
116 - Henry Wilcoxon
117 - Constance Cummings
118 - Richard Tauber
119 - Tala Birell
120 - Al Jolson
121 - Bette Davis
122 - Nelson Eddy
123 - Mary Ellis
124 - Tullio Carminati
125 - Glenda Farrell
126 - Edmund Lowe
127 - Ida Lupino
128 - Basil Rathbone
129 - Mary Boland
130 - Charles Ruggles
131 - Jean Arthur
132 - Franchot Tone
133 - Sylvia Sidney
134 - Robert Taylor
135 - Gertrude Micheal
136 - Peter Lorre
137 - Ann Dvorak
138 - Ian Hunter
139 - Ann Sothern
140 - Burns and Allen
141 - Rosalind Russell
142 - Joe E - Brown
143 - Carole Lombard
144 - Richard Dix
145 - Edith Fellows
146 - Jack Oakie
147 - Alison Skipworth
148 - George Raft
149 - Helen Vinson
150 - Spencer Tracy

Album Covers

Front cover of the 1936 Nestle Stars of the Silver Screen Album

Front cover of the 1936 Nestle Stars of the Silver Screen Album picturing, top to bottom, Bing Crosby, Virginia Bruce and Joe E Brown