Willy Fritsch and Maria von Tasnady ~ This is a cigarette card from the Bunte Filmbilder cigarette card series. It was published in 1937. It is card #288. Size: just over 2¼" x 2¾" (much larger than 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.