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May 24, 2025

Among Those Present (1924 to 1928) 🇺🇸

The folks at Picture Play Magazine ran the “Among Those Present” series for several years. Featured were a few A-List stars, but mainly lesser known and downright obscure actresses and actors.

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Jackie Coogan — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) | www.vintoz.com
March 15, 2025

Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

The biggest names of 1923, from Claire Adams to Adolph Zukor!

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January 09, 2025

The Screen Children’s Gallery (1914) 🇺🇸

Trade magazine Moving Picture World introduces the film industry’s youngest professionals

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December 13, 2024

Magazine Writers

100 years of writing for the movie industry; these are some of the people who dipped their quills into ink pots and wrote about Hollywood & Co:

A. L. Wooldridge
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Adelaide Parmeter
Adele Whitely Fletcher
Alma Talley
Arthur Williams
B. F. Zeidman
Barbara Barry
Barbara Beach
Barbara Little
Ben Maddox
Betty Standish
Caroline Bell
Charles Henry Steele
Daniel Teago
David Arnold
David J. Hanna
Dena Reed
Dick Willis
Donald Henderson Clarke
Doris Denbo
Dorothy Calhoun
Dorothy Donnell
Dorothy Herzog
Dorothy Manners
Dorothy Spensley
E. J. Smithson
E. R. Thompson
Edward Nagle
Edwin Schallert
Elisabeth Goldbeck
Elizabeth Lonergan
Ellen Woods
Elza Schallert
Pearl Gaddis
Esther Meade
Evelyn Gray
Faith Baldwin
Faith Service
Forrest Winship
Frances Denton
Frances Rule
Frederick Lewis
Fritzi Remont
Gene Schrott
Gladys Hall
Grace Halton
Grace Kingsley
Gunnar Norberg
H. H. Van Loan
Hal Whitehead
Hale Horton
Harriet Parsons
Harry Carr
Helen Klumph
Helen Louise Walker
Helen Ogden
Herbert Cruikshank
Herbert Howe
Hilary Lynn
Homer Croy
Howard Sharpe
Ida Zeitlin
Irene Thirer
Jack Grant
Jack Jamison
James Fidler
Jeanne de Kolty
Jerome Shorey
Jerry Asher
Jim Tully
Joan Jordan
John Godfrey
John Kent
John Ringo Graham
John Schwarzkopf
Karen Hollis
Katherine Albert
Kay Osborn
Kenneth McGaffey
Kirtley Baskette
Lee Blackstock
Lillian Conlon
Louella Parsons
Louis Lee Arms
Lucille Bryers
Mabel Condon
Madge Tennant
Malcolm H. Oettinger
Margaret Angus
Margaret B. Ringnalda
Margaret Ettinger
Margaret Mary Joslyn
Margaret Reid
Marguerite Sheridan
Marjorie Manners
Marjorie Wright
Martha Kerr
Mary Sharon
Mary Watkins Reeves
Mary Winship
Max Breen
Myrene Wentworth
Myrtle Gebhart
Nan Campbell
Nanette Kutner
Nickolas Muray
Patricia Keats
Paul Grant
Peter White
Ramon Romero
Randolph Bartlett
Robert Eichberg
Robert Joseph
Rosa Reilly
Russell Ferguson
Ruth Biery
Ruth Dryden
Ruth Waterbury
Samuel Richard Mook
Sara Hamilton
Sonia Lee
Sydney Valentine
Terry Ramsaye
Thyra Samter Winslow
Whitney Williams

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November 21, 2024

Universal Filmlexikon — 1932 🇩🇪 🇬🇧

The Who’s Who of European film-making, 1932 version

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How I Became A Photoplayer (1917) | www.vintoz.com
October 31, 2024

How I Became A Photoplayer (1917) 🇺🇸

“So, how did y’all get started?”

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October 27, 2024

Who’s Who in the Film Game (1912 to 1913) 🇺🇸

The early movers and shakers of the American film industry: Studio heads, sales, directors, producers

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October 11, 2024

Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1912 to 1914) 🇺🇸

In her “Sans Grease Paint and Wig” series Motography Magazine staff writer Mabel Condon delivered surprisingly intimate – and often quite humorous – write-ups on filmland’s biggest stars

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Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players | www.vintoz.com
September 27, 2024

Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1912 to 1915) 🇺🇸

Brief introductions to major and minor stars of the 1910s, proudly presented by Motography Magazine

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Movie Posters – A Resurrected Art (1970) | www.vintoz.com
August 15, 2023

Movie Posters – A Resurrected Art (1970) 🇺🇸

People sometimes laugh at Tom Brennen’s battered Underwood typewriter, but the noted television and radio personality shrugs it off with a smile.

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February 08, 2022

Motion Picture Magazine — Future Favorites 🇺🇸

Future Stars and Favorites of the 1930s

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February 02, 2022

The Unfamous of Hollywood (1934) 🇺🇸

The people you never hear about. They contribute the studio sounds, write the song hits and take the lovely pictures of the stars you admire.

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January 26, 2022

Twenty Impertinent Questions (Movie Classic Magazine, 1933) 🇺🇸

In 1933, Movie Classic Magazine made itself unpopular in Hollywood by asking A-list stars "impertinent" questions.

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Spellbound | www.vintoz.com
January 11, 2022

Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945) 🇺🇸

“Tell me about your dreams and I’ll tell you who you are.” This is one dream we certainly won’t forget, fresh from the unbridled imagination of the man who lent the film his talents as a surrealist painter – or rather, sold them if his anagrammatic nickname, Avida Dollars, is anything to go by – the one and only Salvador Dalí!

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Man in the Shadow | www.vintoz.com
January 11, 2022

Man in the Shadow (Jack Arnold, 1957) 🇺🇸

A year before Touch of Evil, Orson Welles was already being haunted by a devil, the one who gives this modern western a distinct feeling of film noir.

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How to Design a Great Movie Poster
December 28, 2021

How to Design a Great Movie Poster

Poster and cover designs are arguably one of the most important elements in the distribution of a movie. A good poster can not only help sell more tickets, but also helps with marketing and general media presence, helping to give a movie exposure outside of the cinema. 

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The Lady from Shanghai | www.vintoz.com
December 22, 2021

The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947) 🇺🇸

The impression we get is of a ballroom scene, endlessly repeated in an enigmatic interplay of mirrors. His hand placed firmly on her bare back, the man leads his partner (the marvellous Rita Hayworth) in a dizzying dance of death. They have played the game right to the bitter end, but it is almost midnight – the moment of truth is nigh! – and he holds her tight. Will he manage to see what exactly lays hidden on the other side of the mirror?

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Night Must Fall | www.vintoz.com
December 14, 2021

Night Must Fall (Richard Thorpe, 1937) 🇺🇸

Robert Montgomery, usually starring in comedies, offers us a show-stopping turn of real darkness.

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December 08, 2021

King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) 🇺🇸

It all started with a misunderstanding. When Cooper told actress Fay Wray that she would be starring with the “tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood”, she had no inkling that she’d end up captured by a hairy monster who was nothing like Clark Gable at all! The name is Kong, King Kong.

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December 03, 2021

James Bond — Moonraker (Lewis Gilbert, 1979) 🇺🇸

Glowing like a silver star in his state-of-the-art spacesuit, James Bond has found a cure for space sickness: a swarm of interstellar nymphets he has brought into orbit with the force of his irresistible charm. From his position at the centre of the universe, Roger Moore defies the laws of gravity and lights up the eleventh 007 outing with the usual array of stunts and chases, mostly in the air rather than on the ground.

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