Pathe Nathan Film Stars

Issuing Company: Country of Issue: France Year of Issue: 1933 Color/B&W: B&W Number of Cards in Set: Card Size: 2 3/8" x 3 9/16" (6x9 cm) Issued as insert with what product:

Notes: Checklist probably incomplete. Unnumbered. Blank-backed. These cards show scenes from at least three different 1933 films. The film titles are at the top of the text on the backs. The text in the middle of the backs all have in common "Une Production Pathe Nathan." The text on the bottom of the backs display the name of a theatre that was presumably showing the film. It's unknown how these cards were given out, but it's likely they were a giveaway at the theatres.

The theatres listed on the backs include Marivaux Pathe (showing Theodore & Cie), Orleans-Palace (showing Mater Dolorosa), and L'Olympia (showing Les Deux Orphelines).

Collector Serge Plumecocq did some research on the theatres. In the spring of 1930, the Olympia was transformed into the Olympia cinema, Jacques Haik theater. It was in 1890 that Jacques Oller rented the land on which the Olympia, the first Parisian music hall, was built from the Count of Nesmond. Shows of all kinds were given here: revues, operettas, ballets, various attractions. The opening show, on April 11, 1893, consisted of a Spanish operetta el Gran Via. By buying the establishment, Jacques Haik demolished the old establishment and made it a large cinema hall with 2000 comfortable seats

The Parisian cinema Orleans Palace was a theatre with 700 seats which opened on February 21, 1914. It closed its doors on April 2, 1962.

The Marivaux Pathe was opened on April 16, 1919 at 15 Bd des Italians in Paris. It closed June 30, 1986.

Thanks to Serge Plumecocq for helping with this checklist.

Movie Titles on the Cards

Les Deux Orphelines (4 cards known)
Mater Dolorosa (1 card known)
Theodore & Cie (5 cards known)

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