Collectibles: Tom Tyler on Dixie Cup Lids
One of the most popular movie star trading “cards” of the 1930’s to 1940’s among children were the round Dixie single-serve ice cream cup lids which bore a photo of an actor or group of actors on the inside portion.
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Tom Tyler and Marlene Dietrich (and the Countess Di Frasso)
At some point in the mid 1930's, Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood's highest paid actress at the time, noticed Tom Tyler and started to keep company with him.
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Three Weeks (1924) possible repatriation
In 2010, the Russian film archive Gosfilmofond in Moscow began the repatriation of over 200 American-made silent films to the Library of Congress. One of the 235 silent films on this list is “Three Weeks” (1924), directed by Alan Crosland, starring Aileen Pringle and a very young Tom Tyler, who was billed as Bill Burns.
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