Hamilton Movie Stars (Green Backs)

Issuing Company: Hamilton Candy Company Dept. Mfg. (Taiwanese name: Hua Mai Chemicals, or Cathay Chemicals in English)
Country of Issue: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore
Year of Issue: Early 1960s
Color/B&W: Color
Number of Cards in Set:
Card Size: 1 9/16" x 2 1/2"
Issued as insert with what product: Gum

Notes: Checklist incomplete. Some of the cards contain back text as follows:

LUCKY CARD
Don't throw this card away!
Collection cards in sequence.
You will get a free prize!

As was the case with many card sets that included prize giveaways, this set contained short-printed cards to prevent too many prizes from being given away. A card collector spoke to the daughter of the company owner and related the following information about the short-printed cards:

"The daughter of the president of Hamilton told me that her father was very concerned that some people might actually collect all 100 cards in a series, which meant he would have to give away the most expensive grand gift prize each time. As such, for some numbers he intentionally saw that only a few were printed and not even trusting his employees, her father took it upon himself to mix in the rare cards himself secretly so that no one would be able to get a number of the rare and scarce cards in the same batch. In a word, there was still a chance that you could get all the cards to trade for the grand prize, but the odds were even more difficult than winning the grand prize at the Irish sweepstakes."

An advertising poster from the green back card set listed the prizes that could be won at the bottom of the poster. These include the following:

The collector further reported that "The daughter does not know if anyone did claim the grand prize. The smaller gifts were often handled by the gum vendor merchants themselves, as the exchanged product was often a product they normally carried for sale. Of course, the prizes were different for each series, and for each different locale. The prizes for the very first set of cards issued (when the daughter was only about 4 years old) was "large limited printed cards," which were probably the original prototypes."

Thanks to Ranjodh Dhillon and Nick Barber for help with this checklist.


1. Tippi Hedren
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4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9. Maria Perschy
10. Roddy McDowall
11. Monika Vitti
12.
13. Tony Bill
14. Patty Duke
15. Gregory Peck
16.
17. Sean Connery
18.
19. Paul Newman
20.
21.
22.
23.
24. France Nuyen
25.
26. Catherine Deneuve
27. Jack Kelly
28. Hayley Mills
29.
30.
31. O. W. Fischer
32. Eric Fleming
33. Anouk Aimee
34. Dick Chamberlain
35. Jill St. John
36. Christine Kaufmann
37.
38.
39.
40. Handy Hurray
41. Mamie Van Doren
42.
43. Tim Considine
44.
45. Roger Smith
46. Anita Ekberg
47. James Garner
48. John Oblian
49.
50.
51. Steve McQueen
52. Robert Goulet
53. Jane Fonda
54. Mara Lane
55. John Gavin
56. Elsa Martinelli
57. Rosanna Shiaffino
58. Richard Burton
59. Barbara Eden
60.
61. Peter O'Toole
62. Kirk Douglas
63.
64.
65. Carrol Baker
66. Michele Girardon
67.
68. Mitzi Gaynor
69.
70. Dolores Hart
71. Robert Fuller
72. Claire Bloom
73. Dack Rambo
74. Ava Gardner
75.
76. Warren Beatty (misspelled Beauty)
77.
78.
79. Sue Lyon
80. Jerry Lewis
81. Ann Margret
82. Stella Stevens
83. Russ Tamblyn
84. Kathleen Crawley
85. Marcello Mastroianni
86. Ursula Andress
87. Cliff Robertson
88.
89.
90.
91. Ty Hardin
92.
93.
94. Danny Kaye (misspelled Dany)
95. Suzanne Pleshette
96. Horst Buchholz
97. Gabriella Pallotta
98. Jean Sorel


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