Vintage Movie Resources

William Bakewell — An Interview Enters His Life (1928) | www.vintoz.com
August 27, 2024

William Bakewell — An Interview Enters His Life (1928) 🇺🇸

You will like William Bakewell all the more for being bowled over by the visit of his first reportorial caller.

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August 27, 2024

Paddy O’Flynn — A Stepson of the Movies (1928) 🇺🇸

The unprecedented activity of the fans in behalf of a newcomer explains the appearance of this story of the path that has brought Paddy O’Flynn to the beginning of the starlit road.

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Ralph Ince — Shopping for Human Beings (1921) | www.vintoz.com
August 13, 2024

Ralph Ince — Shopping for Human Beings (1921) 🇺🇸

After diligently searching for exact types for his production, Ralph Ince has decided that a bit of faded silk is not half as hard to match as human characteristics, or mental outlook.

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Those Cowless Cowboys (1921) | www.vintoz.com
August 13, 2024

Those Cowless Cowboys (1921) 🇺🇸

Oh, those cowless cowboys of the motion pictures! Those guys that go ‘round all dolled up like a merry-go-round in the cowboy scenery, but who never seem to have any work to do!

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Richard Talmadge — Could a Broken Neck Stop Him? Not Much! (1927) | www.vintoz.com
August 02, 2024

Richard Talmadge — Could a Broken Neck Stop Him? Not Much! (1927) 🇺🇸

Richard Talmadge is a living example that a man can break his neck in the movies and still go on doing daredevil stunts. It’s only a matter of nerve, he says. But if you lose that, you’re gone!

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Frank Hopper — One Chance in Thousands (1927) | www.vintoz.com
August 01, 2024

Frank Hopper — One Chance in Thousands (1927) 🇺🇸

Frank Hopper had been hearing for years that he looked like Theodore Roosevelt, but it took a stranger to see in that resemblance a chance for him to play the great American in “The Rough Riders.”

 

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The Biography of a Film – From Studio to Dead Storage Vault (1922) | www.vintoz.com
July 08, 2024

The Biography of a Film — From Studio to Dead Storage Vault (1922) 🇺🇸

No matter how worthless or old a book is, somehow you can always find a copy of it tucked away in a second-hand book shop on a back street. But what becomes of all the movies, good, bad and indifferent, which we see and then never hear of again?

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The Japanese Carpet of Bagdad (1922) | www.vintoz.com
July 08, 2024

The Japanese Carpet of Bagdad (1922) 🇺🇸

“The Japanese Carpet of Bagdad” is the fourth article in Film play’s series, “Around the WorId with the Movies.”

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June Collyer — When They Love Out Loud (1929) | www.vintoz.com
June 22, 2024

June Collyer — When They Love Out Loud (1929) 🇺🇸

June Collyer has her own ideas of the voltage power of spoken love scenes versus silent ones and lets us in on some secrets.

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Lile Lee — Dogging Lila’s Footsteps (1929) | www.vintoz.com
May 11, 2024

Lila Lee — Dogging Lila’s Footsteps (1929) 🇺🇸

Three times the writer of this story has fallen in love with Lila Lee, beginning when she was three years old and — but let him tell you how she does it.

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George K. Arthur — He’s a Canny Scot (1928) | www.vintoz.com
March 12, 2024

George K. Arthur — He’s a Canny Scot (1928) 🇺🇸

In spite of the fact that George K. Arthur was a well-known actor in England, he had to start all over again in Hollywood.

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Winifred Westover — Her Prayer Was Answered (1929) | www.vintoz.com
March 12, 2024

Winifred Westover — Her Prayer Was Answered (1929) 🇺🇸

Though ten years absent from the screen, Winifred Westover wanted to play in Lummox more than anything in the world, so she prayed to be shown the way and her faith was rewarded.

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Lupe Velez — Just a Little Madcap (1929) | www.vintoz.com
March 05, 2024

Lupe Velez — Just a Little Madcap (1929) 🇺🇸

An inquiry into one of the more or less overnight sensations of 1929. 

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Lenore Ulric — That Mystic Urge to Act (1929) | www.vintoz.com
March 03, 2024

Lenore Ulric — That Mystic Urge to Act (1929) 🇺🇸

Almost every one feels it, either as a call to the stage, or as a worshiper of a player, according to Lenore Ulric, who gives Picture Play readers a rather surprising explanation of the dramatic instinct.

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Barry Norton | www.vintoz.com
March 03, 2024

The Stepchildren Make Whoopee (1929) 🇺🇸

A small group of young, foreign-born devotees of cinema art are keenly happy with their evenings of home cooking and lively talk of the finer things.

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Tom Mix — Back Home — and Happy (1929) | www.vintoz.com
March 03, 2024

Tom Mix — Back Home — and Happy (1929) 🇺🇸

You won’t see Tom Mix in any new pictures for some time, for he has run away from Hollywood and joined the circus he trouped with twenty years ago.

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Charles Morton — Laughing It Off (1929) | www.vintoz.com
March 02, 2024

Charles Morton — Laughing It Off (1929) 🇺🇸

That’s what Charles Morton believes in doing when he gets a knock in private or professional life.

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Margaret Livingston — Her House in Order (1929) | www.vintoz.com
March 02, 2024

Margaret Livingston — Her House in Order (1929) 🇺🇸

Margaret Livingston has pursued success in such a businesslike way that fame now finds her without any of the vapors and vagaries of an actress.

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Carol Lombard — A Fire-Alarm Siren (1929) | www.vintoz.com
March 02, 2024

Carol Lombard — A Fire-Alarm Siren (1929) 🇺🇸

One stops, looks, and listens when Carol Lombard comes on the scene, for her beauty enjoys the benefit of sound effects.

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Adolphe Menjou — As He Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
February 29, 2024

Adolphe Menjou — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸

Unlike his screen personality, Mr. Menjou is brisk and forthright in manner, and after work he sheds his sophisticated air and spends the evening in seclusion, with a few friends — or Russian literature.

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Nils Asther — As He Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
February 29, 2024

Nils Asther — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸

In this shrewd and discriminating catalogue of Mr. Asther’s tastes and habits you will find the man himself clearly reflected.

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Renée Adorée — As She Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
February 29, 2024

Renée Adorée — As She Is (1929) 🇺🇸

An analysis of Miss Adorée’s character reveals one of the unique personalities of Hollywood.

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Greta Garbo — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 28, 2024

Greta Garbo — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

An exceptional and sympathetic analysis of the Garbo personality, which is no less remarkable and unusual outside the studio than before the camera.

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Norma Shearer — As She Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com 🇺🇸
February 28, 2024

Norma Shearer — As She Is (1929) 🇺🇸

Strictly self-made, Miss Shearer is shown in this study to be now serenely and gracefully enjoying the security of stardom, for which she worked so hard.

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