Although it resembles a plain looking but fairly standard 1950s one arm bandit, Screen Stars is entirely different inside and was designed to circumvent restrictions that applied to such games. This is achieved with a simple but ingenious mechanism which appears to spin the drum randomly but actually stops it on a predetermined cycle. Few examples exist and it seems likely that players would lose interest once they identified the sequence.
Prizes are paid for certain popular screen stars of the day, including Diana Dors, Bob Hope and Doris Day.