May Allison, Silent Movies Star Actress c1920 Antique Playing Card- Swap For Sale

You are offerding on a single antique game card that depicts a movie star from the silent movie era.It dates from 1918-1923.

This card depicts May Allison.

May Allison (June 14, 1890 – March 27, 1989) was an American stage and film actress whose greatest success was achieved in the early part of the 20th century in the medium of silent film. Allison's screen debut was as an ingenue in the 1915 star-making Theda Bara vehicle A Fool There Was. When Allison was cast that same year opposite actor Harold Lockwood in the Allan Dwan directed romantic film David Harum, audiences quickly became enamored of the onscreen duo and the two began a hugely successful onscreen film collaboration. Possibly the first such publicly celebrated "romantic duo" of the silver-screen, the two actors were never romantically involved offscreen. The pair starred in approximately twenty-five highly successful features together during the World War I era. Allison and Lockwood's highly popular film romances ended, however, when in 1918 Lockwood died at the age of 31 after contracting Spanish influenza, a deadly epidemic that swept the world from 1918 through 1919 killing 50 to 100 million people globally. Allison's career then faltered markedly without her popular leading male co-star. Allison continued to act in films throughout the 1920s, although she never received the same amount of public acclaim as when she starred opposite Harold Lockwood. Her last film before retiring was 1927's The Telephone Girl opposite Madge Bellamy and Warner Baxter.

The back is a pretty playing card design with a a four-horse Roman chariot race.

The card size is approximately2.5 x 3.4inches (63 x 88cm). It has cut rounded corners. It shows littlewear, andis clean and bright. See scan for condition.

This is NOT a recent copy or modern reproduction, but a GENUINE antique item.

All cards are delivered in an archival sleeve. I stand behind my products and offer a FULL REFUND if you think the product does not match the description in any way.

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