Miriam Hopkins & Phillipps Holmes ~ This is a vintage original cigarette card form the series Filmfotos from the 1930s. This is card #131. It is smaller than a US baseball card (about 1½"x2¼"). This particular example is in excellent condition.

Miriam Hopkins (1902-1972) Born in Savannah, Georgia and brought up in nearby Bainbridge, Miriam Hopkins spent most of her formative years with her maternal grandmother. She received her secondary education in Barre, Vermont and then Syracuse University. Upon graduation, she went to New York to become a ballet dancer, but instead gravitated towards Broadway revues and vaudeville instead. After ten years on the stage as a successful actress, she joined Paramount in 1930 and became one of Hollywood's top-ranking stars. She returned to the stage as her movie career slowed in the forties. During the fifties she added television to her repertoire, guesting on dramatic series, including "The Outer Limits." She died in 1972.

Phillips Holmes (1907-1942) A future in movies for this fair-haired, fresh-faced young adult of the 1930s was by no means certain at the time of his untimely death in a mid-air plane collision. Hints of the All-American leading man promise Phillips Holmes managed to convey during the early to mid decade, particularly in the film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser 's novel An American Tragedy (1931), had faded significantly. In the meantime he was maintaining with stage work and had just graduated from Air Ground School as an aircraftsman when he suddenly died at age 35 on August 12, 1942.