Notes: Checklist Incomplete.
Ruiz Romero issued a number of movie star sets in the 1950s that looked very similar to each other. They all had a black and white picture of a movie star on the front with no identifying text on the front, with a postcard style back, though these are not postcards, they are small cards that are paper thin.
The checklists below cover four different sets, with each set being issued with their own album. The first set was issued in 1954, the second in 1955, the third in 1956, and the fourth in 1958. The back designs for the first and third sets look identical - the only way to know if you are looking at a first or third series card is by the number in the checklist. In the second set from 1955, "Segunda Serie" is written in a line of text below the name of the movie on the back side of the cards. In the fourth set from 1958, "Cuarta Serie" is written in a line of text below the name of the movie on the back side of the cards.
The dates for the first four series were listed on the albums.
The checklists below show the cards issued in the first four sets. It is likely there was at least one more set, as there are additional cards that I have seen that do not fit into these checklists. There is a card #198 of Tuesday Weld that lists the movie "High Time" which was released in 1960, which is after these first four sets.
It looks like the first set from 1954 was issued regularly and with reverse images. I've seen reverse image variations of three of those cards (#14, 64, 69) and suspect all of them can probably be found in reverse image.
Thanks to Greg Graetz and Richard Minns for help with this checklist.
1954 Set (102 cards in set)
1. Arlene Dahl
2. Jean Hagen
3. Lana Turner
4. Fernando Lamas
5. June Allyson
6. Burt Lancaster
7. Donna Reed
8. Frank Sinatra
9. Deborah Kerr
10. Montgomery Clift
11. Charlton Heston
12. Susan Hayward
13. Lionel Barrymore
14. Jennifer Jones
15. Marlon Brando
16. Jeanne Crain
17. Michael Rennie
18. Jeanne Crain
19. Barbara Stanwyck
20. Clifton Webb
21. Robert Wagner
22. Terry Moore
23. Gary Cooper
24. Dana Andrews
25. Gary Merrill
26. Richard Widmark
27. Jean Peters
28. Tyrone Power
29. Patricia Neal
30. James Mason
31. Susan Hayward
32. Robert Mitchum
33. Hildegarde Neff
34. Gregory Peck
35. Ava Gardner
36. Jeffrey Hunter
37. Constance Smith
38.
39. Anne Bancroft
40. Cornell Wilde
41. Ann Blyth
42. Stewart Granger
43. Louis Jourdan
44. Debra Paget
45. Jeff Chandler
46. George Sanders
47. Marilyn Monroe
48. William Powell
49. Betty Grable
50. Rory Calhoun
51. Vera Ellen
52. Joseph Cotten
53. Loretta Young
54. Cary Grant
55. Gene Tierney
56. Danny Kaye
57. Corinne Calvet
58. Eleanor Parker
59. Elizabeth Taylor
60. Jay Robinson
61. Jean Simmons
62. Richard Burton
63. Michael Wilding
64. Pier Angeli
65. Paul Douglas
66. Ann Baxter
67. Dale Robertson
68. Gloria Grahame
69. Adolphe Menjou
70. Terry Moore
71. Fredric March
72. James Stewart
73. Olivia De Havilland
74. Virgina Leith
75. Bella Darvi
76. Rita Hayworth
77. Eddie Albert
78. Humphrey Bogart
79. Burt Lancaster
80. Linda Darnell
81. Charles Boyer
82. Allene Roberts
83. Robert Ryan
84. Joan Leslie
85. Margaret Sheridan
86. Victor Mature
87. Alida Valli
88. Ingrid Bergman
89. Barry Fitzgerald
90. Farley Granger
91. Jane Russell
92. John Wayne
93. Clark Gable
94. Lana Turner
95. Walter Pidgeon
96. Esther Williams
97. Katharine Hepburn
98. Mary Blanchard
99. Judy Lawrence
100. Anne Francis
101. Maria Montez
102. Camelia
1955 Set (204 cards in set, "Segunda Serie" is written in a line of text below the name of the movie)
1. Gene Tierney
2. Peter Ustinov
3. Danny Kaye
4. Corinne Calvet
5. Richard Burton
6. Anne Francis
7. Jeffrey Hunter
8. Hildegard Knef
9. Cary Grant
10. Vera Ellen
11. Paul Douglas
12. Jeanne Crain
13. William Powell
14. Errol Flynn
15. Jane Wyman
16. Steve Cochran
17. Virginia Mayo
18. Randolph Scott
19. Anne Baxter
20. Nancy Olson
21. Jean Rice
22. Robert Cummings
23. Grace Kelly
24. Ray Milland
25. Rita Gam
26. Gregory Peck
27. Anita Bjork
28. Richard Widmark
29. Cameron Mitchell
30. David Wayne
31. Susan Hayward
32. Michael Rennie
33. Gary Cooper
34. Marilyn Monroe
35. Hugh Marlowe
36. Rory Calhoun
37. Marilyn Monroe
38. Robert Mitchum
39. Tommy Rettig
40. Katy Jurado
41. Spencer Tracy
42. Tyrone Power
43. Terry Moore
44. Jeff Chandler
45. Linda Darnell
46. James Stewart
47. Louis Jourdan
48. Dorothy McGuire
49. Clifton Webb
50. James Mason
51. Janet Leigh
52. Robert Wagner
53. Jean Peters
54. Rossano Brazzi
55. Maggie MacNamara
56. Debra Paget
57. Edmund Purdom
58. Jean Simmons
59. Doris Day
60. Gordon MacRae
61. Helen Westcott
62. Vincent Price in "Los Crimenes del Museo de Cero"
63. Judy Garland
64. Dana Andrews
65. Richard Conte
66. Jean Weldon
67. Guy Madison
68. Vera Miles
69. James Cagney
70. Phyllis Kirk
71. Steve Forrest
72. Ruth Roman
73. Brian Aherne
74. Claude Dauphin
75. Doloris Dorn
76. Charles Coburn
77. Tony Curtis
78. Mary Murphy
79. Frank Lovejoy
80. Gary Merrill
81. Barbara Stanwyck
82. George Sanders
83. Paulette Goddard
84. Edward G. Robinson
85. Wanda Hendrix
86. Jean Peters
87. Burt Lancaster
88. Robert Stack
89. Van Heflin
90. Coleen Gray
91. Richard Greene
92. Pedro Armendariz
93. Anthony Steel
94. Gina Lollobrigida
95. Robert Mitchum
96. Patricia Morison
97. Jane Russell
98. Richard Todd
99. Joan Rice
100. Glenn Ford
101. Robert Ryan
102. Piper Laurie
103. John Paine
104. Ann Sheridan
105. Victor Mature
106. Glynis Johns
107. Montgomery Clift
108. Kerima
109. Trevor Howard
110. John Mills
111. Phyllis Calvert
112. Yves Montand
113. Maria Toren
114. Ralph Richardson
115. Yvonne Sanson
116. Vera Clonrot
117. Fernando Lamas
118. Maria Schell
119. Fred MacMurray
120. Mary Wynn
121. Van Johnson
122. Jose Ferrer
123. Antonella Lualdi
124. Robert Francis
125. Martine Carol
126. John Derek
127. Danielle Darrioux
128. John Agar
129. Debbie Reynolds
130. Johnny Weismuller
131. Esther Williams
132. Cornel Wilde
133. Elizabeth Taylor
134. Ingrid Bergman
135. Lex Barker
136. Virginia Huston
137. Cesar Romero
138. Joan Fontaine
139. Dan O'Herlihy
140. Rita Gam
141. Daniel Gelin
142. Paquita Rico
143. Raf Vallone
144. Claudette Colbert
145. Harry Carey
146. Keith Andes
147. Marie Wilson
148. Robert Newton
149. Bernard Latarrige
150. Roberta Haynes
151. John Justin
152. Marius Goring
153. Sarita Montiel
154. William Bendix
155. Michael Wilding
156. Betty Grable
157. Marlon Brando
158. Constance Smith
159. Clark Gable
160. Rossano Brazzi
161. Maruchi Fresno
162. Charles Bickford
163. Massimo Girotti
164. Silvana Pampanini
165. David Niven
166. Edmund O'Brian
167. Carla Del Poggio
168. Sterling Hayden
169. Patricia Medina
170. Karl Malden
171. John Wayne
172. Rossana Podesta
173. Richard Carlson
174. Charles Boyer
175. Greer Garson
176. Richard Conte
177. Robert Wagner
178. Ava Gardner
179. Anthony Quinn
180. Farley Granger
181. Pier Angeli
182. Rock Hudson
183. Frank Lovejoy
184. Donna Reed
185. Paul Christian
186. Paula Raymond
187. David Brian
188. Virgilio Teixeira
189. Margarita Andrey
190. Jose Suarez
191. Jose Nieto
192. Carmen Sevilla
193. Francisco Rabal
194. Adolfo Marsillach
195. Julita Martinez
196. Rafael Duran
197. Lolita Sevilla
198. Vittorio Gassman
199. Ann Sothern
200. Zsa Zsa Gabor
201. Virgina Mayo
202. Ilona Massey
203. Phyllis Thaxter
204. Ethel Merman
1956 Set
1. Grace Kelly
2. Marlon Brando
3. Lana Turner
4. Fred Astaire
5. Kirk Douglas
6. Lauren Bacall
7. Gilbert Roland
9. Jacques Sernas
10. Joanne Dru
12. Laraine Day
13. Dan Duryea
14. Stephen McNally
17. Ronald Reagan (misspelled Donald)
18. Farley Granger
21. Yvonne De Carlo
22. Joan Crawford
23. Sally Forrest
26. Judy Holliday
27. Peter Lawford
28. Jack Lemmon
31. Connie Towers
32. Alan Ladd
33. Laurence Harvey
35. Audrey Hepburn
37. Mario Moreno
38. Lucia Bose
39. Aldo Fabrizi
41. Kathryn Grayson
44. Michele Morgan
45. Henri Vidal
47. Jean Pierre Aumont
50. Jean Marais
55. Diana Dors in "El Nino y el Unicornio" (The film title links to the 1955 film A Kid for Two Farthings)
59. Anouk Aimme
60. Jean Claude Pascal
61. Barbara Laage
62. Brigitte Auber
63. Jean Gabin
64. Charles Vanel
65. Jacques Dumersuil
70. Anne Verno
72. Fausto Tozzi
73. Cosetta Greco
78. Emma Penella
82. Renee Saint-Cyr
84. Luis Mariano
85. Dany Robin
87. Amparo Rivelles
89. Zully Moreno
92. Nicole Courcel
93. Cecile Aubry
96. Daniele Delorme
97. Marina Vlady
98. Herbert Lom
100. Madeleine Robinson
101. Cyd Charisse
136. Marilyn Monroe
137. Ricardo Montalban
1958 Set (204 cards in set)
1. Ingrid Bergman
2. Yul Brynner
3.
4.
5.
6. Rita Moreno
7. Jean Pierre Aumont
8. Mona Freeman
9. Aldo Ray
10.
11. Nina Foch
12. Perry Lopez
13. Tab Hunter
14. Jean Simmons
15. Judy Holliday
16. Elizabeth Taylor
17. James Dean
18. Jennifer Jones
19. William Holden
20. Mary Wynn
21. Rock Hudson
22. Deborah Kerr
23. Jeffrey Hunter
24. John Wayne
25. Greer Garson
26.
27.
28. Marilyn Monroe
29. Don Murray
30. Barbara Ruick
31. Gordon MacRae
32. Guy Madison
33. James Mason
34. Barbara Rush
35. Richard Burton
36.
37. Rossana Podesta
38.
39. Dana Wynter
40. Richard Todd
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47. Ruth Roman
48. Robert Wagner
49. Dorothy Dandridge
50. Van Johnson
51. Joan Collins
52. Paul Newman
53. Richard Carlson
54. Pier Angeli
55. Jack Lemmon
56. Gerard Philipe
57. Michele Morgan
58. Jean Marais
59.
60. John Forsythe
61. Jane Greer
62. Cyd Charisse
63. Ricardo Montalban
64. Diana Dors
65.
66. Burt Lancaster
67.
68. Virginia Leith
69. Anita Ekberg
70. Jackie Lane
71.
72. Marina Vlady
73. Brigitte Auber
74. Anouk Aimee
75. Gina Lollobrigida
76. Tony Curtis
77. Vernon Gray
78. Claire Bloom
79.
80.
81. Genevieve Page
82. Danielle Darrieux
83.
84. Cecile Aubry
85. Isabelle Pia
86. Ives Massard
87. Frank Sinatra
88. Doris Day
89. Marlon Brando
90. Joanne Woodward
91. Janet Leigh
92. Romy Schneider
93. Karlhenz Bohn
94.
95. Michael Rennie
96.
97. Paul Douglas
98. Etchika Choureau
99. John Agar
100. Georges Marchal
101. Brigitte Bardot
102. Gilbert Becaud
103. Henry Fonda
104. Julieta Greco
105. George Dolenz
106. Charles Coburn
107. Daniele Delorme
108. Trevor Howard
109.
110.
111.
112.
113.
114.
115.
116.
117. Kirk Douglas
118. Katharine Hepburn
119.
120. Lori Nelson
121. Dana Andrews
122. Mario Moreno
123. Suzy Parker
124. Danny Kaye
125. Gene Kelly
126.
127.
128.
129.
130.
131.
132. Lili Gentle
133. Joseph Cotten
134. Anne Vernon
135. Van Heflin
136. Farley Granger
137. Francoise Christophe
138. Anthony Franciosa
139. James Cagney
140. Marta Toren
141. Yvone de Carlo
142.
143.
144.
145.
146.
147.
148.
149. Kim Novak
150.
151.
152.
153.
154.
155. Gregory Peck
156.
157.
158. Jose Suarez
159.
160.
161.
162.
163.
164.
165.
166.
167.
168. Victor Mature
169. Vella Darvi
170. Leslie Caron
171. Charlton Heston
172. Linda Cristal
173. Margarita Andrey
174. Francisco Rabal
175. Carmen Sevilla
176. Jose Nieto
177. Dolores Michaels
178. Viveca Lindfors
179.
180.
181.
182.
183.
184.
185.
186.
187.
188.
189.
190.
191.
192.
193.
194.
195.
196.
197.
198.
199.
200.
201.
202.
203.
204.
Cards from Unknown Ruiz Romero Set(s)
3. Pier Angeli
10. Lauren Bacall
21. Pat Boone
24. Rossano Brazzi
26. May Britt
35. Charles Coburn
43. Cyd Charisse
61. Anita Ekberg
78. Farley Granger
92. William Holden
106. Alan Ladd
110. Jack Lemmon in "Mister Roberts"
112. Gina Lollobrigida
146. Lori Nelson
198. Tuesday Weld in "High Time"
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