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Top 10 British Movie Star Tobacco Card Issues of the 1930’s

November 7, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Ginger Rogers 1934 Godfrey Phillips Tobacco Card

This Top 10 list of favorite British Movie Star Tobacco Card sets from the 1930’s includes explanations, descriptions and links to movie card galleries of the chosen sets.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles, News - Notes Tagged With: britain, Golden Age, lists, movie cards, tobacco cards, uk

Kashin Motion Picture Stars Variations

August 14, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Kashin Coral Boxes

A customer recently contacted me about possible variations within the Kashin Publications boxed sets of Motion Picture Stars. Some fascinating discoveries as a variation is confirmed and more questions are raised about discrepancies in the Kashin checklists!

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles, News - Notes Tagged With: boxed sets, collectibles, kashin, movie cards, us

Haven’t Seen These Before: Circa 1915-1917 Movie Cards

April 28, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Post includes a 50 image gallery of these early movie cards, similar to Kromo Gravure cards of the period, but I can’t prove that they were issued by that Detroit company.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles Tagged With: galleries, movie cards, Trading Cards, us

My 10 favorite Lionel Barrymore talkies plus 10 vintage movie cards

April 28, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

My quite imperfect, heavily qualified, Top 10 List of Lionel Barrymore talkies illustrated with ten vintage movie cards and collectibles.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Lionel Barrymore, lists, movie cards, movie collectibles

Two dozen Wallace Beery vintage movie card and collectible images

April 1, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

I still plan to get my hands dirty with a night of research and put together a good Wallace Beery biographical post some time in the future, but April 1 is Wally Beery’s birthday and I didn’t want to let it pass unnoticed because he’s yet another of those Golden Age stars who tend to […]

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Birthdays, movie cards, movie collectibles, movie photos, Movie Premiums, Wallace Beery

A little bit about Claire Dodd with movie cards illustrating

March 27, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

When I was recently researching some background information for the review I wrote about The Case of the Curious Bride (1935) over on my Warren William fan site, I stumbled across a TIME Magazine review which talked only briefly about the picture but then provided more information about Claire Dodd, a personal favorite from the […]

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Claire Dodd, movie cards, movie collectibles, Warner Bros., Warren William

Dolores Costello – Her Career plus Can You Help Identify This Painting?

March 7, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

A biography in brief of child star and later screen beauty Dolores Costello, who would later marry John Barrymore. Also a reader contributes an image of a painting of Costello and asks for some help in identifying it.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies, News - Notes Tagged With: child stars, Dolores Costello, Helene Costello, John Barrymore, Maurice Costello, movie cards, movie magazines, Movie Premiums, paintings, silent stars

My 5 favorite Wallace Ford pre-code roles

February 12, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Wallace Ford 1932 BAT Tobacco Card

My five favorite Wallace Ford pre-code roles and Freaks isn’t one of them! Article illustrated by an image of a vintage movie card picturing Ford.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Birthdays, Employees Entrance, Freaks, Goodbye Again, lists, MGM, movie cards, My Woman, Possessed, The Beast in the City, Wallace Ford

W.C. Fields juggling; The Great Man born 130-ish years ago today

January 29, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

After bumping into the 1976 biopic W.C. Fields and Me I wanted to learn more and so I read James Curtis’ Fields biography. Page includes a clip of Fields juggling in The Old Fashioned Way (1934).

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Birthdays, Broadway, comedians, james curtis, jugglers, movie cards, Movie Stars, other books, tobacco cards, Trading Cards, vaudeville, W.C. Fields

Pre-Code star Kay Francis, a Warner Brothers treat through the 1930’s

January 12, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

A brief biography of Kay Francis illustrated with vintage movie cards and collectibles and including TCM’s complete 2010 birthday schedule of Francis films.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: biography, Birthdays, Kay Francis, movie cards, movie collectibles, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

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