1936 VERNA HILLIE & FRANCES DRAKE 2 AURELIA SULTAN CARD LUXUSBILD SERIE 21, 41

 

Verna 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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