Evelyn Holt ~ This is a vintage original cigarette card form the series Film Bilder from Monopol Cigarettes. Issued in 1932. This is card #229. It is smaller than a US baseball card (about 1½"x2¼"). This particular example is in excellent condition.

Evelyn Holt (3 October 1908 - 22 February 2001) was a German actress. The daughter of a journalist, she began her film career at UFA in 1926. She quickly advanced to starring roles alongside Gustav Fröhlich and Hans Albers. After singing lessons, she was committed in 1931 as a soubrette at the Grosses Schauspielhaus in Berlin. However, the Nazi takeover ended her film career after six successful years, since she was allegedly half-Jewish. Holt was prohibited from appearing in films. She still enjoyed engagements as a soubrette at the Komische Oper in Berlin. When she married Jewish publisher Felix Guggenheim in 1936, it was no longer possible for her to perform in Germany. In 1938 the couple emigrated first to Switzerland, then in 1940 to England, and later to the United States. There Guggenheim was exile publisher of authors such as Thomas Mann, Franz Werfel, Lion Feuchtwanger and Alfred Doblin. Evelyn Holt remained until the end of her life in the U.S. and never returned to movies.