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Hillie & Frances Drake: For sale two cigarette Aurelia-Sultan movie stars
cards of 1936 « Luxusbild serie » (Luxury Series Cinema stars). Embossed cards
issued in German Sultan Cigarettes package: Cards are from Luxusbild series
no 21,41. Cards measures approx. 2 1/16" x 2 7/16" (51mm x 62mm).
Each card is in full color, embossed with an individual pattern. Cards are in new
condition (look scan). No mount damage on back, no creases and very clean. Back
with text written in German.
About Verna Dolores
Hillie : (May
5, 1914 – October3, 1997). She was an american film actress. First recruited
into movie acting by a contest, she went on to star in films for Paramount
Pictures and other studios through the 1930s, before retiring from acting in
the early 1940s. Hillie began acting as a teenager in Detroit, where she got a
part in a radio drama. Against her wishes, her mother submitted her photo to a
national competition for a role in a Paramount film in1932. She was contacted
for a tryout. She lost the competition to Kathleen Burke, but studio give her a
contract anyway. She start with a bit part in Madame Butterfly. She became better known after her supporting role
in Under the tonto Rim in1933. When
Hillie got a contract with Bell’s Pasly, Paramount dropped her contract. She
soon recovered and began working for other studios. In 1935 the studios stopped
using her, after she spurned romantic advances from production executive Carl
Laemmle Jr. (Wiki)
About Frances Drake :
Frances Drake (born Frances Morgan Dean; October 22, 1912 – January 18,
2000) was an American actress best known for playing Eponine in Les Miserables
(1935). Drake was born in New York as Frances Morgan Dean to a wealthy family. She
was educated at Havergal College in Canada and at age 14 "she was sent to
school in England, under the wing of her grandmother". She was there when the stock market crashed in
1929. Needing to earn money for the first time in her life, Drake became a
dancer and stage actress and found that film paid even better. In 1933,
she explained: "I met an actor in London - Gordon Wallace, who was for a
while in Eva Le Gallienne's repertoire
company - and he asked me to form a dance team with him. We danced, and a director asked us to do a
play, and then I was invited to do films in England. She returned to the United
States in 1934 and was offered a contract by Paramount, who changed her name to
Frances Drake (after the studio originally wanted her new name to be Marianne
Morel to avoid confusion with the star then popular Frances Dee). She
was coached by opera singer and actress Marguerite Namara while continuing in
film. She was often cast in "damsel in distress" roles and appeared
in proto-horror and proto-sci-fi films opposite stars like Bela Lugosi, Boris
Karloff and Peter Lorre. A
film reference book summarized Drake's career as follows: "She starred in
many Hollywood productions of the 1930s, often as the terrified heroine of
horrors and mystery tales." On February 12, 1939, Drake married Cecil
Howard (1908-1985), second son of Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk. Howard
disapproved of her career, and she retired from the screen when he received her
inheritance. After Howard's
death in 1985, she married David Brown in 1992; he died in 2009. She has a star
in the Motion Picture section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6821
Hollywood Boulevard. Drake died in Irvine, California on January 18, 2000, at
the age of 87.(Wiki).
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