Wild Colors Strip Cards

Issuing Company: Unknown
Country of Issue: USA
Year of Issue: 1920s
Color/B&W: Unicolor
Number of Cards in Set:
Card Size: 1 3/4" x 2 5/8"
Issued as insert with what product: Issued in strips by themselves with no other product. Cards are usually found cut apart.

Notes: Two colors are used on each card - a background color, and a color for the cut-out figure of the movie star. Color combinations seen so far include:

light blue-grey background - black movie star
light blue-grey background - red movie star
light green background - red movie star
light green background - brown movie star
light green background - blue movie star
orange background - very dark blue movie star
orange background - red movie star
orange background - black movie star
red background - black movie star
white background - red movie star
white background - purple movie star
white background - blue movie star
dark white background (yellowish) - brown movie star

Each card can probably be found with multiple color combinations. Blank-backed.


Olga Baclanova - Paramount
George Bancroft - Paramount
Vilma Banky - United Artists
Richard Barthelmess - First National
Noah Beery - Paramount
Nancy Carroll - Paramount
Lon Chaney - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Charles Chaplin - United Artists
Roland Coleman (Ronald Colman) - United Artists
Maria Corda - First National
Marion Davies - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Richard Dix - Paramount
Eddie Dowling - Paramount
Douglas Fairbanks - United Artists
Alec. B. Francis (no studio listed)
Robert Frazer (no studio listed)
Greta Garbo - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
John Gilbert - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Corrinne Griffith - First National
William Haines - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Johnny Hines - First National
So Jin - First National
Alice Joyce - First National
Harry Langdon - First National
Rod La Roque - First National
Lila Lee - First National
Myrna Loy - First National
Dorothy Mackaill - First National
Ken Maynard - First National (wearing big belt)
Ken Maynard - First National (checkered shirt)
Patsy Ruth Miller - First National
Colleen Moore (hands near neck) - First National
Colleen Moore (hands on hips) - First National
Antonio Moreno - First National
Charlie Murray - First National
Conrad Nagel - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Ramon Novarro - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Mary Pickford - United Artists
William Powell - Paramount
Esther Ralston - Paramount
Milton Sills - First National (head tilted left on card - Sills is looking right)
Milton Sills (Sills is looking slightly left)
Gloria Swanson - United Artists
Constance Talmadge - United Artists
Norma Talmadge (no studio listed)
Thelma Todd - First National
Edward Tucker - First National
Richard Walling - First National
Alice White - First National
Grant Withers - First National
Fay Wray - Paramount
Loretta Young - First National


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