Vintage Movie Resources
Valeska Suratt, “A Siren at Home” (1916) 🇺🇸
There are various types of sirens and vampires, but Valeska Suratt is the wickedest of them all
Walter Law — A Make-Up That Grew (1916) 🇺🇸
How Walter Law prepared to play the part of a burly sailor who had not known the luxury of a smooth face since boyhood
Olga Grey — How I Learnt to Act (1916) 🇺🇸
Olga Grey was now drawing pay for acting so it occurred to her that she had better learn to act
Marjorie Rambeau — Sliding Down the Banisters to Success (1919) 🇺🇸
One day, as a dramatic school student, Marjorie Rambeau chanced to slide down the banisters. A theatrical manager was standing at the bottom and he engaged her on the spot
Madame Pilar-Morin — The Future of the Silent Drama (1910) 🇺🇸
Renowned French actress Mme. Pilar-Morin discusses the future of the moving picture
Joyce Fair (1916) 🇺🇸
Child actress Joyce Fair has taken a “growed-up” part which required far more than merely playing with dolls and just being cute
Margaret Shelby and Mary Miles Minter — Those Shelby Girls (1919) 🇺🇸
Isn’t it nice to see Margaret Shelby working with Mary Miles Minter again?
Hans Dreier — Astronomy Aids Art Department (1936) 🇺🇸
Moon jobs, according to Hans Dreier, are the most ticklish of astronomical subjects in a movie
Camera Angles — Edward Snyder (1935) 🇺🇸
In 1912, Pathé studio production head Louis Gasnier presented camera equipment to Edward Snyder and instructed him to shoot tests, stills, and miscellaneous shots
Wyndham Standing — Standing Room Only (1919) 🇺🇸
Wyndham Standing has no excuse for not being a good actor
Ernest Truex — Who Put the True in Truex? (1919) 🇺🇸
Now, before the low-water mark of thirty, Ernest Truex is playing on Broadway, has played on Broadway and has effected a sinecure in the coy heart of Gotham, both speakily and screenically.
Martha Mansfield — A Mansfield of the Follies (1919) 🇺🇸
Martha Mansfield is sweet, and fine, and dainty — a fragile flower
Creighton Hale — A Hale Fellow Well Met (1919) 🇺🇸
“I hate press stories,” Creighton Hale went on. “In order to live up to publicity printed about them, stars would have to be millionaires a hundred times over”
Hazel Dawn — Shot at Dawn (1919) 🇺🇸
There are two things that strike you the minute you meet Hazel Dawn
Don Pedro de Cordoba (1919) 🇺🇸
Pedro de Cordoba has been fortunate in his leading women, or rather the women he has played the leads to
Louise Glaum — The Luxurious Louise (1919) 🇺🇸
Louise Glaum wants real camels when she is doing a desert scene
Billie Reeves — One of the Three “Original Chaplins” (1916) 🇺🇸
Billie Reeves is the kind of talker one loves to listen to, and he’s immensely popular around the studios
Conditions in Singapore (1916) 🇺🇸
“I suppose you hear very little of the cinemas out East, and I have no doubt you will be surprised to hear that in Singapore we have six cinemas”
Marian Swayne (1916) 🇺🇸
Marian Swayne is a bewitching blonde personality whose career on stage and screen has been a continued success
J. Albert Hall Back to Stage (1916) 🇺🇸
J. Albert Hall’s work in pictures is well known, as he has for several years played prominent parts for Famous Players, Kinemacolor, Pathé, Biograph and Fox
Howard Crampton (1914) 🇺🇸
Howard Crampton is best known to picturegoers as the Man Higher Up in Traffic in Souls.
John Mackenzie, Cameraman I. (1915) 🇺🇸
John Mackenzie — Veteran photographer, writer, globe-trotter, all-around interesting personality
Ann Pennington Comes Back to Screen (1917) 🇺🇸
Ann Pennington, the popular little Ziegfeld “Follies” star, will again star upon the screen under the auspices of the Famous Players
Binney to Make Two-Reel Comedies (1918) 🇺🇸
Josh Binney’s reputation as a producer of successful comedies brought him a most flattering proposition submitted by capitalists of Jacksonville, Fla.