Ross Verlag, Part 4: Hollywood Talks

We continue our tribute to that famous Berlin publisher, Ross Verlag. Ross produced many, many star postcards from the late 1910s till the early 1940s. For the fourth part of this tribute, we chose 25 postcards of Hollywood stars of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Hollywood could talk!


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4142/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ralph Forbes and Dolores del Rio in The Trail of '98 (Clarence Brown, 1928).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4356/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Our Gang.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4903/2, 1929-1930. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Anita Page.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4940/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Warner Bros. / National. Publicity still for The Singing Fool (Lloyd Bacon, 1928) with Al Jolson and Davey Lee.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4979/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Paramount. Richard Dix.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5100/1. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ramon Novarro and Dorothy Jordan in Devil-May-Care (Sidney Franklin, 1929). This was Ramon Novarro's first sound picture.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5108/2, 1930-1931. Photo: MGM. Publicity still for Anna Christie (Clarence Brown, 1930) featuring Greta Garbo.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5161/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Radio. Jack Oakie and Polly Walker in Hit the Deck (Luther Reed, 1929).


German postcard by Ross Verlag Berlin, no. 5393/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Paramount. Clara Bow.


German postcard. by Ross Verlag, no. 5403/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Paramount. Mary Brian and Richard Arlen in The Light of the Western Stars (Otto Dyar, 1930).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5548/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Paramount. Collection: Didier Hanson. Lillian Roth.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5745/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Paramount. Lily Damita in Fighting Caravans (Otto Brower, David Burton, 1931).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5749/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still for Paramount on Parade (Dorothy Arzner a.o., 1930) with Jack Oakie, Clara Bow and Maurice Chevalier.


German postcard by Ross-Verlag, no. 5751/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still for Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, 1930). Gary Cooper was mistakenly credited as 'Garry Cooper'.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 140/5. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Susan Lenox (Robert Z. Leonard, 1931) with Greta Garbo and Clark Gable.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 168/1. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still for Madame Butterfly (Marion Gering, 1932) with Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6403/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still for Daughter of the Dragon (Lloyd Corrigan, 1931) with Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6436/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Joan Crawford.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6452/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Fox. Publicity still for Delicious (David Butler, 1931) with Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6673/2, 1931-1932. Photo: Don English / Paramount. Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6709/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Paramount. Maurice Chevalier.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6715/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Paramount. Photo: publicity still for Feet First (Clyde Bruckman, 1930), starring Harold Lloyd.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 176/4. Photo: Paramount. Claudette Colbert in Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille, 1932).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 7244/1, 1932-1933, distributed in Italy by Casa Editrice Ballerini & Fratini, Firenze. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Jean Hersholt in Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 7297/1, 1932-1933. Photo: First National Pictures. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

The Ross Verlag Tribute is to be continued next week.