Yes it’s that time again, what have I been scratting around on eBay for this month?
Yep it’s an additional item to my cigarette card collection, from a tobacco manufacturer in Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Not a faithful likeness I think you’ll agree but a decent rendition of Ronald Colman’s wistful good looks.
This card forms part of a collection produced in the 1920s, coinciding nicely of course with Ronald Colman’s career in silent movies. As noted in my birthday tribute to Colman the other week, he got his start in the British film industry in 1917 with little success. Of the eight pictures he made in the U.K., only two reels of The Toilers from 1917 remain.
Allied to this, of the 21 movies Colman made in America between 1921 and 1929 only 10 survive, with a further three incomplete. The films that are publicly available are:
The White Sister (1921)
Her Night of Romance (1924)
Romola (1924)
Stella Dallas (1925)
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)
Kiki (1926)
Beau Geste (1926)
The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
I’ll be covering at least two of these films, Romola and Beau Geste, in the weeks to come as they also feature William Powell. However, time permitting, I will discuss Ronald Colman’s other silent pictures. It’s a hard life! The sacrifices I have to make for the goodness of the blog!
That William Powell Site 
Haha! And we readers are grateful for the sacrifices you make on our behalf. 😉
LikeLiked by 2 people