Fredric March has a huge claim to fame regarding the Academy Awards because his was the first Best Actor statuette to be awarded to a science fiction film, that being "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Actually it was deemed to be a tie, with Wallace Beery in "The Champ", though if we are getting technical there was one more point in it, for our man.
In actual fact, the correct title, from the book, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, in 1886, was "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", and it was one of the first Gothic Horror Novels. Stevenson was fascinated by the possibilities that you could be one thing on the outside and have such dark hidden fantasies inside, and he pored for hours over lurid court cases. He also had a friend, though whether he sought him out immediately after the event, or knew him before seems cloudy; this was Eugene Chantrelle, who had killed his wife with opium in 1878, and we know that Stevenson attended the trial, where he found out, to gleefully recant later, and often, that the man had poisoned other people in the same way too, perhaps even as a test run. Another of his subjects was a man called William Brodie, who was a locksmith by day, and who made copies of the keys to ransack the homes at night. He maintained two mistresses, neither of whom knew the other, with whom he had five children. There were rumours of other women, and children, too.
I am not entirely sure that the film was science fiction, but many people put in that genre. And for those that do, this becomes the first science fiction film ever to win an Academy Award. Science fiction seems not be regarded too highly by the Academy, though they did create categories for it, later on, the Art Direction, Scene Direction, and Special Effects, to name but a few. A list of those nominees, and the few winners, appear at IMDB/SciFi.
If you discount our film as a science fiction one, though, then the first true Sci-Fi film to actually win the Best Picture statuette was "Everything Everywhere All at Once - but not until 2022...
The film on this card is not titled but it is almost certainly "The Eagle and The Hawk (1933) in which Fredric March and Cary Grant were the male leads and Carol Lombard appears briefly as the glamour/love interest.
This is a variant of a set issued by many other companies. It is branded for "Schwarz Weiss" or Black and White. It is catalogued in our original World Tobacco Issues Index as :
BUNTE FILMBILDER (Coloured Film Stars). Sm. 60 x 33 (150) and Lg. 72 x 58 (100). See X.24/2C
1. First Series. (250)
2."II Folge" , Nd. 251/500 (250).
That is the same in our updated version but the "X" reference is not there because that relates to the original World Tobacco Issues Index Handbook. The listing under X.24/2C adds quite a bit of additional info, namely :
BUNTE FILMBILDER (Coloured Film Stars). Two numbered series, each small size 60 x 33 m/m (150 subjects) and large size 72 x 58 (100 subjects). Pictures in black and white, coloured framework. gold borders.
1. First Series. Numbered 1-250
2.Inscribed "II Folge" , Numbered 251/500
A. Austria G.m.b.H. (1) and (2).
B. Brinkmann. (1) with firm`s name (2) brand issue, inscribed "Lloyd Zigaretten"
C. Greiling. (1) and (2)
D. Jasmatzi. (1) not studied (2) brand issue, inscribed "Unsere Marine"
E. Massary. (1) and (2) Brand issues, inscribed "Caid"
F. Orienta. (2) only known
G. "Polo" brand issue. (2) only known
H. Zuban (1) and (2).
And one day we will link out to cards with all these different backs!