Willy Fritsch and Renate Müller ~ This is a cigarette card from the Caid cigarette card series. It was published in about 1934. It is card #73. Size: just over 1¼" x 2¼" (about the same size as a typical US or British cigarette card). Very light wear. Overall the condition is very fine.

Willy Fritsch studied drama under Max Reinhardt and entered the German film industry in the early-1920s. He became a highly popular star of light operettas and romances often opposite Lilian Harvey or Käthe von Nagy. Fritch kept working right through the Nazi domination of the German cinema averaging about one film a year including Vienna Blood (1942) and The Bat (1945). As easily as he had worked under the Nazis, Fritch continued acting in occupied Germany and then West Germany until retiring in 1964.

Renate Müller: A beautiful actress trained by Max Reinhardt, Müller was a popular blonde star of British and German films in the 1930s. Her knowledge of languages made her a natural for the multi-language productions of the early-1930s. When Hitler came to power, Müller came into conflict with the regime because of her continued relationship with a Jew. In an attempt to make peace with the regime she appeared in the propaganda film Togger (1937). Still hounded by the Gestapo for Rassenschande, or race defilement, Müller committed suicide in 1937. Officially, she died from epilepsy.