Karnans Film Stars

Issuing Company: Karnans
Country of Issue: Sweden
Year of Issue: 1931
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set: 200
Card Size: 1 1/16" x 1 3/16"
Issued as insert with what product: Chocolate Candy

Notes: Checklist incomplete. Though there are at least five different back designs, these cards all belong to the same set. The main set of these cards are very small cards, probably numbering 200 different. There are also at least 4 unnumbered cards of Rin-Tin-Tin.

These cards are very small and the numbers are often very difficult to read. I have been trying to get very large scans of these to figure out all the numbers. Even doing this, some are still hard to figure out. For example, I have a Norma Shearer card in hand and have scanned it at 600 dpi and can still not read the number, which ends in a 3, since the preceding number(s) written in black blend into the black background. It is possible some of the numbers in this checklist are incorrect. Click the small picture above to view a picture checklist of this set.

This same 200-card set can be found in a larger version, probably put into a larger package of Karnans candy.

Date info: Harry Spear's last film was in 1929. Davey Lee was only in films from 1928-1930. Dorothy DeBorba's first film was in 1930. Quillan and Starr were in a movie together in 1930. I'm placing a 1931 date on this set, though it could have been issued anytime from about 1930 to 1932.

Thanks to Amit Benyovits, Lesley Curtis, Greg Graetz, and Richard Minns for helping with this checklist.


1. Einar Fagstad
2. Margit Manstad
3. Systrarna May Wong
4. Jackie Searle
5. Larry Kent
6. Conrad Nagel
7. Tallulah Bankhead
8. Alice White
9. Winnie Lightner
10. Charles Rogers
11. Bessie Love
12. Mitzi Green
13. Dorothy Mackail
14. John Barrymore (spelled Barrimore on card)
15. Jackie Searle
16. Ivan Petrowitsch
17. Joan Bennett (spelled Bennet on card)
18. John Gilbert
19. Maj Gullberg
20. Loretta Young
21. Lane Chandler
22. Lil Dagover
23. Skeets Gallagher
24. Constance Bennett (spelled Bennet on card)
25. Lilyan Tashman
26. Gretl Theimer
27. Marian Marsh
28. Kay Francis (spelled Franeis on card)
29. Charles Rogers
30. Olive Borden
31. Buster Keaton
32. Nils Asther
33.
34. Sue Carol
35. Elisabeth Frisk
36. Janet Gaynor (spelled Gayner on card)
37. Maurice Chevalier
38.
39. Ronald Colman
40. Franz Lederer
41. Greta Garbo
42. Bebe Daniels
43. Britta Appelgren
44. Charles Farrell
45. Hakan Westergren
46. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
47. Marlene Dietrich
48. Ramon Novarro
49. Norma Shearer
50. Gary Cooper
51. Mae Madison
52. Paul Lukas
53. Buster Collier
54. John McBrown (John Mack Brown)
55. Charles "Buddy" Rogers
56. Grant Withers
57. Norma Terris
58. Sally O'Neil
59.
60. Jeanette MacDonald
61. Fay Wray
62. Esther Ralston
63. Marilyn Miller
64. Doris Dawson
65. Glenn Tryon
66. Lois Moran
67.
68. Warner Oland
69. William Powell
70. Charles Rogers
71. Richard Dix
72. Fredric March
73. Joe E. Brown
74.
75. Richard Barthelmess
76. Everett Marshall
77. Carole Lombard (spelled Canale on card)
78. Philips Holmes
79. George Bancroft
80. Ruth Chatterton
81. George Bancroft
82. Lars Hanson
83. Johnnie Mack Brown
84. Douglas Fairbanks
85. Evalyn Knapp (Evelyn)
86. Rudy Vallee (spelled Budy Valley on card)
87. Carole Lombard
88. Richard Arlen
89. Bessie Love
90. Betty Compson
91. Bebe Daniels
92. Barry Norton
93. Baclanova
94. Nancy Carroll
95. Rod la Rocque
96. Olive Borden
97. Ruth Hall
98. Aino Taube
99.
100. Gosta Ekman
101. John Boles
102. June Collyer
103. William Powell (spelled Powel on card)
104. Hugh Trevor - Aileen Pringle (spelled Ailern on card)
105.
106. Jeanette MacDonald
107. Vera Veronina
108.
109. Raymond Hackett
110. John Gilbert
111. John Gilbert
112. Constance Bennett
113. Fay Wray
114.
115. Dennis King
116.
117. Wheezer
118. Marion Byron
119. Fredric March
120. Harry Spear
121. Bobby Nelson
122. Dorothy Gulliver
123. Doris Dawson
124. Colleen Moore
125. Davey Lee
126.
127. Jean Darling
128. Eddie Quillan
129. Dorothy Mackaill
130.
131. Evelyn Brent
132. Irene Bordoni
133. Lita Chevret
134. Kay Francis
135.
136. Jean Arthur
137. June Clyde - Arthur Lake
138. Sue Carol
139. Mary Ann Jackson
140. Edwina Booth
141. Audrey Ferris
142. Jack Mulhall
143. Corinne Griffith
144. Eddie Quillan
145.
146. Edmund Lowe
147. Fred Scott
148. Barry Norton
149. Weezer
150. Al Jolson (in blackface)
151. Monte Blue
152. William Haines
153. Marion Shilling
154. Joyce Murray
155. Jack Oakie
156. Varat gang (Our Gang)
157. Marion Byron
158. Nils Asther (hitting punching bag)
159.
160. Grant Withers
161. Weezer
162.
163. Anita Page
164. Jeanette Loff
165. Jeanette Loff
166. Mary Duncan
167. Charlie King
168.
169. Betty Recklow
170. Gloria Swanson
171.
172. Varat Gang (Our Gang)
173. Anny Ondra
174. Sally Blane
175. Raquel Torres
176. Mary Ann Jackson
177. Josephine Dunn
178. Corinne Griffith
179. Eva Rosita
180. Sharon Lynn
181. Patsy Ruth Miller
182. Myrna Loy
183. Buster Keaton
184. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
185. George Lewis
186. Bebe Daniels
187. Doris Hill
188. Richard Arlen
189. Ragnar Falck - Ann Marie Brunius
190. Jean Darling
191. Edward Nugent
192. Constance Talmadge
193.
194.
195. Lila Lee
196. Bebe Daniels
197. Ruth Taylor
198. John Mack Brown - Sally O'Neill (spelled McBrown on card)
199. Edvin Adolfsson - Erik Berglund
200. Eddie Quillan - Sally Starr (spelled Quilland on card)

Unknown Numbers

Sue Carol - Arthur Lake ?
Dorothy DeBorba ?
Mary Duncan ?
Zarah Leander ?
Norma Shearer - best guess 33?
Helen Twelvetrees ?

Unnumbered

Rin-Tin-Tin (at least 4 different poses)


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