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Tobacco card issuers knew way back in the 1880s that sex sells and that’s why pretty girls and actresses adorn many early tobacco cards. In the USA and England, these cards of the fairer sex stopped short of nudity but card issuers in South America and North Africa were more daring. The movie world started out as a novelty pastime for inventors and amateur enthusiasts in the late nineteenth century but snowballed into a huge global industry in the 1920s and 1930s.
The card set featured in this blog is about as close as you get to pornography for the masses in the 1930s. It includes several cards of the film star Anne Grey with what looks like a see-through top on, Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American movie star, Sidney Fox, whose life ended tragically with an overdose, Ann Dvorak, whose prolific movie career secured her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and many other movie stars in seductive poses.
Rothmans, Prominent Screen Favourites, 1934 (24 cards)
Includes:Judy Kelly,Claudia Dell,Ann Dvorak,Anne Grey,Joan Wyncham,Lucile Browne,Mirian Sherry,Dorothy Bouchier,Mary Duncan,Heather Angel,Anna May Wong,Anne Grey,Anne Grey,Edna Earle,Betty Stockfeld,Betty Stockfeld,Dorothy Boyd,Dorothy Bartlam,Dorothy Bartlam,, Vivienne Osborne,Jeanette Loff,Sidney Fox,Dorothy Bartlam,Dorothy Bartlam,
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