Recruit, Coupon, Athletic Movie Stars - T82

Issuing Company: Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
Country of Issue: USA
Year of Issue: 1916
Color/B&W: Color
Number of Cards in Set: 50
Card Size: 1 5/8" x 2 13/16"
Issued as insert with what product: Little Cigars

Notes: These cards can be found with an ad for either Recruit, Coupon, or Athletic tobacco products on the back. The American Card Catalog number for this set is T82. The card fronts for this set are identical to the Imperial Tobacco Movie Stars set issued in Canada.

The exact date of this set is unknown, but after an extensive check of the Internet Movie Database, I am listing a date of 1916. Just about all of the stars in this set were in their prime in 1915-1917. The Ruth Roland card mentions a movie released in 1915, dating the set at 1915 at the earliest. Mary Fuller, Florence Labadie, and Norma Phillips were in their last movie in 1917, suggesting the set was issued no later than 1917. According to the IMDB, James Cruze was in his first movie in 1918, and Crane Wilbur was in his first movie in 1917. There are holes in the IMDB data for very early movies, and I am guessing Cruze and Wilbur were in movies before the ones listed, and these have just not been submitted to the IMDB yet.


Mary Anderson
Bessie Barriscale
George Beban
Carlyle Blackwell
Hobart Bosworth
Billie Burke
Marguerite Clark
Ethel Clayton
James Cruze
Grace Cunard
Marie Doro
Douglas Fairbanks
Dustin Farnum
William Farnum
Francis Ford
Mary Fuller
Dorothy Gish
Lillian Gish
William S. Hart
Helen Holmes
Thomas H. Ince
Jack Warren Kerrigan
Florence Labadie
Harold Lockwood
Cleo Madison
Mae Marsh
Vivian Martin
Claire McDowell
Violet Mersereau
Muriel Ostriche
House Peters
Norma Phillips
Ruth Roland
Marin Sais
Anne Schaefer
Myrtle Stedman
Ruth Stonehouse
Edith Storey
Blanche Sweet
Mabel Talioferro
Norma Talmadge
Mabel Trunelle
Vivian Walker
Henry Walthall
Fannie Ward
Pearl White
Crane Wilbur
Earle Williams
Kathlyn Williams
Clara Kimball Young


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