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Untold Tales — Confessions of the Stars (1928/1929) 🇺🇸
Candid confessions by the super stars of the Jazz age: Blanche Sweet | Constance Talmadge | Betty Compson | Bebe Daniels | Aileen Pringle | Anna Q. Nilsson | Lois Wilson | Corinne Griffith | Bessie Love
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.
The Screen Children’s Gallery (1914) 🇺🇸
Trade magazine Moving Picture World introduces the film industry’s youngest professionals
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 |
Interviews with People Prominent in Production (1936 and 1937) 🇺🇸
- Sol Lesser (December 1936)
- George A. Hirliman (December 1936)
- E. B. Derr (January 1937)
- Nat Levine (January 1937)
- Maurice Conn (January 1937)
- I. E. Chadwick (February 1937)
- Robert E. Welsh
- Edward Halperin and Victor Halperin
- B. F. Zeidman (February 1937)
- B. F. Zeidman (March 1937)
- David L. Loew (March 1937)
- Harry Sherman (April 1937)
- Richard A. Rowland
- Lindsley Parsons
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
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
Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1912 to 1915) 🇺🇸
Brief introductions to major and minor stars of the 1910s, proudly presented by Motography Magazine
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.
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.
Twenty Impertinent Questions (Movie Classic Magazine, 1933) 🇺🇸
In 1933, Movie Classic Magazine made itself unpopular in Hollywood by asking A-list stars "impertinent" questions.
Photoplay Magazine — The Star Creators of Hollywood (1936) 🇺🇸
The Star Creators of Hollywood: John Ford | Frank Lloyd | W. S. Van Dyke
Motion Picture Magazine — Men Behind the Stars (1936 to 1938) 🇺🇸
Short introductions of Movie Directors and Film Crew by Motion Picture Magazine: W. S. Van Dyke | Mervyn LeRoy | Clarence Brown | Mark Sandrich | Frank Capra | George Cukor | John Ford | King Vidor | E. H. Griffith | Hal Mohr | Mervyn LeRoy | Richard Boleslawski | Robert Z. Leonard | Archie Mayo | Richard Thorpe | Victor Fleming | Tay Garnett | John M. Stahl | William Dieterle | Roy Del Ruth | William Wyler | Wesley Ruggles | Gregory La Cava | Frank Lloyd
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!
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.
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.
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?
Night Must Fall (Richard Thorpe, 1937) 🇺🇸
Robert Montgomery, usually starring in comedies, offers us a show-stopping turn of real darkness.
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.
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.