1934 cigarette card with portrait stage and film star Hermione Gingold. She found fame in the USA in musicals like Gigi.
Cigarette card with portrait of radio and film star Hermione Gingold that form part of an old set from W D and H O Wills, Nottingham, part of Imperial Tobacco. Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold (1897–1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued wit. She had a strikingly deep individual voice. Gingold was born in Carlton Hill, Maida Vale, London. She was a successful career as a child actress, and later found success in revue, in which she played from the 1930s to the 1950s. From the 1950s she made her career mostly in the USA appearing in such films and stage musicals as Gigi (1958), Bell, Book and Candle (1958), The Music Man (1962) and A Little Night Music (1973). The 1934 set is entitled: Radio Celebrities. These sets of cards were given away singly in packets of cigarettes and were (and are still) popular collector's items - a vintage 1930s graphics for editorial use only.
Size: 2300px × 4134px
Location: UK
Photo credit: © M&N / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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