Goldfilm Series 1

Issued by: Bulgaria, Constantin, Salem
No. in set: 180
Date of issue: 1933?

Köberich (1997) lists Danziger Tabakmonopol, Delta and Sulima as well. I have not seen any of these three. The Danziger cards would presumably be rare in Germany anyway. Delta and Sulima were in some way linked and for example one version of the Welt in Bildern 5 cards has both names on. I doubt whether this version exists. Köberich gives the date of issue as 1933 for the Salem version and 1934 for the Sulima version.

The cards all show single stars. An expert might recognise the movies but I haven´t got a clue. However the album contains four scenes from movies. I did a search in the Internet Movie Database for these and found they were all released in 1932. This points to a date of 1932 or 1933. Weiß Ferdl appears in the set (see card 4) and according to the IMDb his earliest film was 1934. However I have found other sets including Weiss Ferdl where all indications are that they were issued before 1934, so it is more likely that the IMDb is incomplete in this respect. Certainly I have found several films mentioned in cigarette cards which were not in the IMDb.

I also found that some of the names given are spelled differently to the ones in the data base. The spellings I give are those on the cards.

Description

The series consists of 180 pictures of the film stars of the day. It contains quite a few Hollywood stars, as well as the best of Babelsberg and other European stars. The cards are based on the publicity photos released by the studios. However these were generally black and white, and for this series they have been coloured by hand and given gold backgrounds.

It is interesting to compare these pictures with the black and white originals which were issued in other series such as the Josetti Filmbilder. Sometimes parts of the original picture have been painted out with the gold background. For example Peggy Shannon on card 69 has had her hair style shortened, Loretta Young on card 121 has lost part of the dangly things she is wearing, and Hertha Thiele on card 162 has ended up with a peculiar wispy ear where part of her hair covering her ear in the original picture has been painted out leaving only the originally exposed parts of her ear showing. In each case, the full original picture can be seen faintly under the gold overprinting. It is not clear whether this was intended as a way of "improving" the pictures, or whether the artist was just too lazy to paint around all the "fiddly" bits.

 

Bulgaria

Constantin

Salem

Albums

Bulgaria, Truus van Aalten	Constantin, Willy Fritsch (card 6)	Salem, Käthe von Nagy (card 90)

The albums for the series are in photo-album style with gold cord and tassles. Originally they were covered in cellophane but this is invariably missing, the only trace of it being two strips of adhesive inside the album covers.

The albums have a picture on the cover based on the cards in the set but in a larger format. Various different ones exist. So far I have seen five different ones on the Salem album:
Werner Fuetterer (48), Norma Shearer (66), Olga Tschechowa (77), Käthe von Nagy (90), and Truus van Aalten (111)
and Willy Fritsch (6) on the Constantin album.

Check list

No.	Name	No.	Name	No.	Name
1	Fritz Schulz	61	Max Adalbert	121	Loretta Young
2	Lilian Harvey	62	Jenny Jugo	122	June MacCloy
3	Lilian Harvey	63	Anna Sten	123	Barbara Weeks
4	Weiss Ferdl	64	Hermann Thimig	124	June Collyer
5	Lee Parry	65	Charles Rogers	125	Iwan Petrovich
6	Willy Fritsch	66	Norma Shearer	126	Jackie Coogan
7	Willy Fritsch	67	Norma Shearer	127	Ronald Colman
8	Elisabeth Bergner	68	Charles Farrell	128	Victor McLaglen
9	Frances Dee	69	Peggy Shannon	129	Fay Wray
10	Greta Garbo	70	Harold Lloyd	130	Will Rogers
11	Greta Garbo	71	Buster Keaton	131	Billie Dove
12	Dorothy Jordan	72	Mary Pickford	132	Jack Buchanan
13	Constance Bennett	73	Charlotte Ander	133	John Barrymore
14	Ramon Novarro	74	Heinrich George	134	Vilma Banky
15	Ramon Novarro	75	Luis Trenker	135	Richard Arlen
16	Lupe Velez	76	Rosy Barsony	136	Mary Duncan
17	Otto Gebühr	77	Olga Tschechowa	137	Tom Mix
18	Brigitte Helm	78	Anny Ondra	138	Douglas Fairbanks
19	Brigitte Helm	79	Anny Ondra	139	Clive Brook
20	Rudolf Forster	80	Lil Dagover	140	Barbara Kent
21	Leni Riefenstahl	81	Harry Liedtke	141	Dorothy Mackaill
22	Gustav Fröhlich	82	Camilla Horn	142	Sylvia Sidney
23	Gustav Fröhlich	83	Camilla Horn	143	Claudette Colbert
24	Henny Porten	84	Georg Alexander	144	Don José Mojica
25	Conchita Montenegro	85	La Jana	145	Thalme Todd
26	Adolphe Menjou	86	Felix Bressart	146	George O'Brien
27	Lewis Stone	87	Paul Hörbiger	147	Lilian Bond
28	Carole Lombard	88	Grete Mosheim	148	Warner Oland
29	Chester Morris	89	Peter Voss	149	William Powell
30	Marlene Dietrich	90	Käthe von Nagy	150	Jacqueline Logan
31	Marlene Dietrich	91	Käthe von Nagy	151	Jack Trevor
32	Gary Cooper	92	Albert Bassermann	152	Dolores Del Rio
33	Max Hansen	93	Oskar Homolka	153	Nils Asther
34	Liane Haid	94	Gitta Alpar	154	Theodor Loos
35	Liane Haid	95	Greta Nissen	155	Mady Christians
36	Walther Rilla	96	Conrad Veidt	156	Agnes Esterhazy
37	Nora Gregor	97	Dolly Haas	157	Werner Krauss
38	Hans Adalbert von Schlettow	98	Alphons Fryland	158	Marcella Albani
39	Hans Adalbert von Schlettow	99	Albert Préjean	159	Gösta Ekman
40	Lissi Arna	100	Annabella	160	Elga Brink
41	Marta Eggerth	101	Ursula Grabley	161	Paul Richter
42	Emil Jannings	102	Charlotte Susa	162	Hertha Thiele
43	Emil Jannings	103	Charlotte Susa	163	Maria Paudler
44	Anna May Wong	104	Magda Schneider	164	Walter Janssen
45	Ernst Verebes	105	Friedel Schuster	165	Heinz Ruehmann
46	Renate Müller	106	Lien Deyers	166	Sue Carol
47	Dorothea Wieck	107	Lien Deyers	167	Mary Brian
48	Werner Fuetterer	108	Dita Parlo	168	Oskar Karlweis
49	George Bancroft	109	Hans Stuewe	169	Anita Dorris
50	Jeanette Mac Donald	110	Truus van Aalten	170	Paul Morgan
51	Jeanette Mac Donald	111	Truus van Aalten	171	Siegfried Arno
52	Clark Gable	112	Willi Forst	172	Gerda Maurus
53	Madge Evans	113	Mona Maris	173	Jean Arthur
54	Maurice Chevalier	114	Hoot Gibson	174	Warner Baxter
55	Maurice Chevalier	115	Anita Page	175	Richard Barthelmess
56	Nancy Carroll	116	Robert Montgomery	176	Ruth Chatterton
57	Lucie Englisch	117	James Hall	177	Richard Dix
58	Hans Albers	118	Mitzi Green	178	Betty Bird
59	Hans Albers	119	Duncan Renaldo	179	Marion Davies
60	Trude Berliner	120	Gloria Swanson	180	Iwan Mosjukin