What: 2017 Historic Autographs Celebrity Quads trading cards
Arrives: Late July
Box basics: One quad autograph per box (eight boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs takes to Hollywood history with a release that will be limited to just 90 cases and feature some of the biggest names in entertainment history.
Keep reading for more information.
The Basics: TV and movie casts, directors and producers and memorable names from music will all be in play here with all cards will be Beckett Authenticated. Among the TV shows with stars found here will be All in the Family, Batman, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan’s Island, Happy Days, Hogan’s Heroes, I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, Star Trek, The Addams Family, The Jeffersons, The Brady Bunch, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Munsters and MASH among others. Just some of the names will include James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley — those on the same card (above) — The Three Stooges, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Betty Grable, Bob Hope, George Burns, Burt Lancaster, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Vincent Price, Alec Guinness, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda.
Below is a cast list giving an even deeper example of what’s possible as released by Historic:
The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly and Joe Besser)
Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Birth of a Nation (Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, Monte Blue, D.W. Griffith)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen)
Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Hereid, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains and other characters)
Citizen Kane (Orson Wells, Ray Collins, Everett Sloane, Joseph Cotton)
Dial M for Murder (Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams)
Dodge City (Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Guinn “Big Boy” Williams
Dracula (Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Carla Laemmle)
Frankenstein (Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Pauline Moore)
From Here to Eternity (Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Fred Zinnemann)
Gone with the Wind (Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Butterfly McQueen, Hattie McDaniel (very rare), Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Victor Jory)
Grand Hotel (Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Jean Hersholt)
High Noon (Gary Cooper, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Otto Kruger)
The Honeymooners (Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph)
Istanbul (Errol Flynn, John Bentley, Cornell Borchers, Torin Thacher)
It Happened One Night (Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns)
It’s a Wonderful Life (Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed)
King Kong (Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, James Flavin)
The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo)
Meet Me in St Louis (Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Marjorie Main)
National Velvet (Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury)
North by Northwest (Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis)
Ocean’s 11 (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr, Peter Lawford)
On the Waterfront (Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger)
Penny Serenade (Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Ann Doran)
Psycho (Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh)
Shane (Alan Ladd, Brandon deWilde, Van Heflin, Jack Palance)
Star Trek (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelly, James Doohan)
Star Wars (Alec Guinness, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher)
Superman (George Reeves, Kirk Alyn, Christopher Reeve, Dean Cain)
Superman TV (George Reeves, Noel Neill, Jack Larson, John Hamilton)
Tarzan (Johnny Weissmueller, Buster Crabbe, Jock Mahoney, Gordon Scott)
The Babe Ruth Story (William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Mark Koenig, Mel Allen)
The Barrymores (Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Diane Barrymore, Dolores Costello)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Alec Guinness, William Holden, Geoffrey Horne, Sessue Hayakawa)
The Godfather (Marlon Brando, James Cahn, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall)
The Searchers (John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond, Olive Carey)
The Sting (Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Charles Durning, Harold Gould)
The Ten Commandments (Yul Brynner, Cecil D Demille, Edward G. Robinson, Charlton Heston, Cedric Hardwick)
The Walking Dead (Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Warren Hull, Addison Richards)
The Wizard of Oz (multiple cards with Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley and Ray Bolger)
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