TOBACCO CARD: Lil Dagover / 1930s German Actress / Bulgaria Sport Goldfilm Cigarette / Series 1 Image #80.

The information on the back of this card is written in German.

Item Information:
This is a circa 1930s cigarette / tobacco card featuring German actress Lil Dagover. The front of the card has a color photograph of Lil Danover with a beautiful gold background. There is a white border with the words "Lil Dagover" at the bottom.

The back of the card has information about the card written in the German language. This information can be found below followed by a rough English translation of the words.

This card is one out of a series of similar cards, Series 1, Image #80.

The card measures approx. 2 3/8" high x 1 1/2" wide. This item will ship protected in a penny sleeve which is inside of a Card Saver I plastic sleeve.

CARD BACK INFORMATION IN GERMAN:
Unsere neue Filmserie zeigt in natürlicher Wiedergabe die beliebtesten Filmdarsteller erstmalig IN FARBIGER Ausführung diese Bilder liegen in den Packungen unserer Bulgaria Sport 3 1/3 Pfennig Zigarette.
Sammelalben erhalten die Freunde dieser neuen Serie gegen Warensendung (Voreinsendung) von 1 - RM durch uns oder jeden Händler.
BULGARIA Zigarettenfabrik G.M.B.H.
Dresden - A. 21
Serie 1 (180 Bilder) Bild Nr. 80
Phot. Warner Bros.

ROUGH ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
Our new film series shows in natural reproduction, the popular movie actor for the first time in colored design, these images are available in the packages of our Bulgaria Sport 3 1/3 penny cigarette.
Scrapbooks get the friends of this new series against consignment of 1 - RM by us or any distributor.
BULGARIA Zigarettenfabrik G.M.B.H.
Dresden - 21 A.
Series 1 (180 images) Image Nr. 80
Phot. Warner Bros.

IMDB Actress Information:
Lil Dagover (1887-1980) - A prominent German film actress born on 30 September 1887 at Madiven, Java, the daughter of a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch authorities. Sent at the age of ten to Baden-Baden to study, she later entered the cinema thanks to her marriage in 1917 to the actor Fritz Dagover who was 25 years her senior. They divorced in 1919 but not before he had introduced her to director Robert Wiene and other notables of German cinema. She made her screen debut in Fritz Lang's Harakiri (1919). Immediately after she appeared in Wiene's classic expressionist film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (aka The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)).

Apart from three trips -- one to Sweden in 1927, another to France in 1928-9 and one to Hollywood in 1931 -- most of Lil Dagover's career and fate was linked to that of the German cinema, where her role was usually that of the frail, menaced heroine. She continued to star in a great number of films during the Nazi era. Among her best performances were her roles in Congress Dances (1931), in Gerhard Lamprecht's The Higher Command (1935) and in Veit Harlan's The Kreutzer Sonata (1937). She also acted in the Deutsches Theatre Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, at forces shows and at war theaters. At one time, she was reported to have been a close friend of Adolf Hitler. In 1944, she received the War Merits Cross. Dagover continued her career in post-war Germany, playing many supporting parts until the late 1970s.

Item Condition:
Photos are of actual card. Bottom right corner wear is more significant than the photo makes it look, with the cardboard showing through in two places and a tear in the card at this corner. There is wear along all edges (front and back), with very light dark marks on the face of the card (front and back). There is corner wear on all corners. There is slight discoloration over the whole of the card.