Willy Fritsch ~ This is a cigarette card from the Film-Fotos cigarette card series. It was published in about 1934. It is card #108. Size: just over 2½" x 2¼" (smaller that a US baseball 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.

Alexa von Poremsky studied acting under Gertrude Eysoldt and made her stage debut in 1925. Musical theater was her forte but she also posed nude for Art Nouveau artist Emil Orlik. From 1933 to 1944 she was part of the ensemble of the Volksbühne. Alexa also appeared on film but mostly in supporting roles. She played a maids, market women, secretaries, and neighbors. By 1961 she had appeared in 32 films. She also worked as a voice actress most notably in the German dubbing of Cinderella in which she voiced Anastasia.