Card of the Day - 2021-10-04

MAR-210 : MBM-3 [trade : UK] Mars Confections Ltd "Famous Film Stars" (1939) 47/50
MAR-210 : MBM-3 [trade : UK] Mars Confections Ltd "Famous Film Stars" (1939) 47/50

Monday's clue was “Mars” to celebrate Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC, who was not only the first British woman in space but also the first woman on the MIR International Space Station – and she worked at the Mars Confectionery Company! And it all started because she listened to the radio!
You can read about that, and about her at https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/who-was-first-woman-space
Dick Powell had a lengthy career in all genres of motion pictures, including musicals, and he was the first actor to play Raymond Chandler`s Philip Marlowe on screen, in "Murder, My Sweet", an adaptation of ‘Farewell, My Lovely. He also appeared in a film called "To the Ends of the Earth" - which suits our theme, but it was a crime story!