John Wayne (army man)
Randolph Scott (cowboy with horse)
Gary Cooper (portrait)
and 8 total Japanese Samurai / Actors
These 2 attractive American Actor related Menko card series were both made in c1950.
Examples from these 2 sets are Scarce overall.
These uncut sheets are probably the complete sets.
Tyrone Edmund Power III
(May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958)
Was an American actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power appeared in dozens of films,
often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads. His better-known films include Jesse James,
The Mark of Zorro, Marie Antoinette, Blood and Sand, The Black Swan, Prince of Foxes,
Witness for the Prosecution, The Black Rose, and Captain from Castile.
Power's own favorite film among those in which he starred was Nightmare Alley.
Though largely a matinee idol in the 1930s and early 1940s and known for his striking good looks,
Power starred in films in a number of genres, from drama to light comedy.
In the 1950s he began placing limits on the number of films he would make
in order to devote more time to theater productions.
He received his biggest accolades as a stage actor in John Brown's Body and Mister Roberts.
Danny Kaye
(born David Daniel Kaminsky; Yiddish: דוד־דניאל קאַמינסקי; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987)
Was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer.
His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs.
Kaye starred in 23 films, notably Wonder Man (1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (1946),
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Hans Christian Andersen (1952),
White Christmas (1954), and The Court Jester (1955).
His films were popular, especially for his performances of patter songs
and favorites such as "Inchworm" and "The Ugly Duckling".
He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honour in 1986
for his years of work with the organization.
George Randolph Scott
(January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987)
was an American film actor, whose Hollywood career spanned from 1928 to 1962.
As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career,
Scott appeared in dramas, comedies, musicals, adventures, war, horror and fantasy films, and Westerns.
Out of his more than 100 film appearances, more than 60 of them were Westerns.
At 6 ft 2 in, lanky and muscular, Scott displayed a Southern drawl that offset his limitations.
During the early 1950s, Scott was a consistent box-office draw.
In the annual Motion Picture Herald Top Ten Polls,
his name appeared on the list for four consecutive years, from 1950 to 1953.
Gary Cooper
(born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961)
Was an American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and understated acting style.
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations,
as well as an Academy Honorary Award in 1961 for his career achievements.
He was one of the top-10 film personalities for 23 consecutive years
and one of the top money-making stars for 18 years.
The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Cooper at number 11 on its list of the 50 greatest screen legends.
Cooper's career spanned 36 years, from 1925 to 1961, and included leading roles in 84 feature films.
He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through to the end
of the golden age of classical Hollywood. His screen persona appealed strongly to both men and women,
and his range included roles in most major film genres.
His ability to project his own personality onto the characters he played
contributed to his natural and authentic appearance on screen.
Throughout his career, he sustained a screen persona that represented the ideal American hero.
Joel Albert McCrea
(November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990)
was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades,
including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he became best known.
He appeared in over one hundred films, starring in over eighty,
among them Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940),
Preston Sturges' comedy classics Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942),
the romance film Bird of Paradise (1932), the adventure classic The Most Dangerous Game (1932),
Gregory La Cava's bawdy comedy Bed of Roses (1933), George Stevens' romantic comedy The More the Merrier (1943), William Wyler's These Three, Come and Get It (both 1936) and Dead End (1937),
Howard Hawks' Barbary Coast (1935),and a number of Westerns.
John Wayne - in Sands of Iwo Jima (American War Film, released in 1949)
(born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979)
Wayne an American actor. Nicknamed "Duke", he became a popular icon through his starring roles
in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.
His career flourished from the silent film era of the 1920s through the American New Wave,
as he appeared in a total of 179 film and television productions.
He was among the top box-office draws for three decades and appeared with many other
important Hollywood stars of his era. In 1999, the American Film Institute
selected Wayne as one of the Greatest Male Stars of Classic American Cinema.
2 Uncut Sheets in Lot
both sheet/cards has average wear
collector grade.
ea. sheet is about 3-3/8" by 10-1/4"
ea. card is about 1-5/8" by 2-5/8"
Great for the Hollywood, or Japanese Card collector....