Vintage Movie Resources
New Men Wanted in Hollywood (1931) 🇺🇸
Where are all the new men to keep up with the new girls? Will some of the boys assembled here supply the demand? The Editor wants to know!
Richard Cromwell — The Discovery of Dick (1931) 🇺🇸
Another one of those Hollywood romances! Richard Cromwell, an unknown hero, shoots from obscurity to fame in three months
Barbara Stanwyck — Not a Pattern Girl (1931) 🇺🇸
Barbara Stanwyck was fired from her first job selling patterns, so she's never been a pattern girl since!
Phillips Holmes — Bachelor of Hearts (1931) 🇺🇸
Paul Lukas Is A Love Expert — That's Why Women Love Him (1931) 🇺🇸
Cecil Beaton — Taking Beauty For a Ride (1931) 🇺🇸
Adolphe Menjou — He Refuses to be a Star (1931) 🇺🇸
Buster Keaton — Family Man (1931) 🇺🇸
Buster Keaton: “Nope.”
Joseph Schenck: “We’re making a comedy with Fatty Arbuckle. Go down to the studio and play a bit in it, just to see if you like it.”
Keystone Cops — Back On The Beat Again (1931) 🇺🇸
The Keystone Cops had a re-union in Hollywood the other day, making the two-reeler “Stout Hearts and Willing Hands.”
Dorothy Arzner (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The only woman director in motion pictures, Dorothy Arzner, under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, first aspired to a medical career.
Charlie Ruggles — He was “Ruggles of Red-Eye” (1931) 🇺🇸
Does the screen public want its favorites to be versatile? Charlie Ruggles is going to find out. For the past two years he has played nothing but “drunk” roles. Now, in his first starring picture, “Girl Habit,” he doesn’t take a single drink.
Sessue Hayakawa and Anna May Wong Return to the Screen (1931) 🇺🇸
Sessue Hayakawa and Anna May Wong have been away from American movies for several years — winning stage triumphs in New York and European capitals. They’ve now returned to Hollywood to win back screen honors.
Note: This text was published in 1931 and some readers might find some of the Asian stereotyping offensive.