Guillen Comedy Film Stars Playing Cards

Issuing Company: Guillen
Country of Issue: Spain
Year of Issue: 1920s
Color/B&W: Color
Number of Cards in Set: 48
Card Size:
Issued as insert with what product: Chocolates

Notes: Checklist incomplete. This set contains 48 cards, designed to look like playing cards. On the playing card side, each suit contains 12 cards numbered 1-12 showing comic drawings of a particular comedy film star - Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Ben Turpin, and Buster Keaton. On the other side, each card shows a photograph of a different film star.

The stars on the backs might be found with more than one different front. Scans on the internet seem to show that, though that is not confirmed.

These cards can be found with different back advertising, including the following (and probably others):

Chocolates Guillen
Chocolates Riucord


Charlie Chaplin on fronts (backs listed here)

1.
2.
3.
4. Norman Kerry
5.
6.
7.
8. Jack Hoxie
9.
10.
11.
12. Lon Tellegen

Buster Keaton on fronts (backs listed here)

1. Conrad Nagel
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9. Vilma Banky
10.
11.
12.

Harold Lloyd on fronts (backs listed here)

1. Conrad Nagel
2. Winifred Bryson
2. M. Livingston
3. Dustin Farnum
4. Carroll Dempster
4. Vilma Banky
5. Florence Gilbert
6. Tom Mix
7. Gloria Swanson
8.
9. Jack Hoxie
10.
11. Buddy Messinger
12. Mary Carr

Ben Turpin on fronts (backs listed here)

1. Edmund Lowe
2. G. Fitzmaurice
3. Mlle. Brabant
4.
5. H. Rawlinson
6. Alice Terry
7. Mlle. Brabant
8. Tom Mix
8. Edmund Lowe
9. Viola Dana
10. Eduardo Gibson
11. Leslie Tenton
12. Const. Binney


Movie Stars on Backs regardless of fronts

Const. Binney
Clara Bow
Mlle. Brabant
Winifred Bryson
Mary Carr
Hallam Cooley
Viola Dana
Carroll Dempster
Dustin Farnum
G. Fitzmorris
Lucy Fox
Eduardo Gibson
Florence Gilbert
John Gilbert
Wanda Hawley
Sessue Hayakawa
Jack Hoxie
Norman Kerry
Judy King
Jacqueline Logan
Edmund Lowe
Walter McGrail
Buddy Messinger
Mary Miles
Miles Minter
Tom Mix
Mae Murray
Conrad Nagel
Baby Peggy
House Peters
Mary Philbin
Mary Pickford
H. Rawlinson
Norma Shearer
Al St. John
Gloria Swanson
Lon Tellegen
Leslie Tenton
Alice Terry
Pearl White
Lois Wilson


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