Vintage Movie Resources

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Much has been written about Norma Talmadge, but never has her real character been revealed as it is in this frank study — the first of a series of insights into the souls of the cinema great.

Picture Play is proud to offer this brilliant, comprehensive and sympathetic analysis to the admirers of Mr. Novarro.

Eddie Quillan’s papa took exception to his son’s pie-throwing roles with Mack Sennett lingerie girls, but he soon found a place that comes up to the family standard of humor.

The players you laugh at on the screen probably work harder to cause that laugh, than those who are famous for “emoting.” This is an entertaining story of three of the former.