Vintage Movie Resources

Bodil Rosing — Ga-Ga Bodil (1929) | www.vintoz.com
December 13, 2023

Bodil Rosing — Ga-Ga Bodil (1929) 🇺🇸

Bodil Rosing’s granddaughter gave her a nickname that made Hollywood love the brilliant actress all the more.

 

 

Eternal Love

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Max Factor — A Wizard of Make-up (1929) | www.vintoz.com
December 12, 2023

Max Factor — A Wizard of Make-up (1929) 🇺🇸

Max Factor is consulted by all the stars, and has developed a new personality for some of them through expert make-up. In this article he discusses his work and tells how to enhance one’s best features.

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Ricardo Cortez — His Face Is His Misfortune (1929) | www.vintoz.com
December 11, 2023

Ricardo Cortez — His Face Is His Misfortune (1929) 🇺🇸

Doomed from the first to play sheiks, because he looked like the popular conception of one, Ricardo Cortez thinks that movies are another name for grief.

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Josephine Dunn — Dunn Days Are Rosy Now (1929) | www.vintoz.com
December 11, 2023

Josephine Dunn — Dunn Days Are Rosy Now (1929) 🇺🇸

Josephine Dunn’s bright beginning in the movies didn’t prevent her from going through a period of bad luck that would have broken a less valiant spirit than hers. But now — well, she’s rising and rising.

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Nicholas Soussanin (in the background) (with Gilbert Roland and Marion Shilling) | 1932 | www.vintoz.com
November 29, 2023

Butlers in Movies — “Very Well, Sir” (1929) 🇺🇸

More than fifty accomplished actors make a specialty of playing butlers in the movies.

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Thelma Todd — An Eye Full (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 27, 2023

Thelma Todd — An Eye Full (1929) 🇺🇸

Is the interviewer’s resume of beautiful Thelma Todd, erstwhile schoolmarm and now of Hollywood’s notables.

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Nils Asther — A Fish Out of Water (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 27, 2023

Nils Asther — A Fish Out of Water (1929) 🇺🇸

That describes Nils Asther, who doesn’t “belong” in the movie colony for reasons that cannot be disputed after you read what he says about it.

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Jack Mulhall — As He Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 25, 2023

Jack Mulhall — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸

If there is such a thing in this polyglot land as a hundred per cent American, Jack Mulhall is it.

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Ronald Colman — As He Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 25, 2023

Ronald Colman — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸

Careful consideration of Mr. Colman’s likes and dislikes reveals a character unique in Hollywood.

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George O’Brien — As He Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 23, 2023

George O’Brien — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸

Scrutiny of Mr. O’Brien’s qualities, personal and professional, reveals the exact ratio you would expect if you knew him only by his appearance on the screen.

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Barbara Kent — Six Steps to Success (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 23, 2023

Barbara Kent — Six Steps to Success (1929) 🇺🇸

One by one, they have led Barbara Kent from a prairie farm in Canada to the heroine of Harold Lloyd’s new picture.

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ZaSu Pitts — Loved at Last (1927) | www.vintoz.com
November 22, 2023

ZaSu Pitts — Loved at Last (1927) 🇺🇸

For nine years Zasu Pitts has been the neglected girl of the screen, the girl who has stood by and watched the more beautiful heroine walk off with the hero, but at last Zasu has got her man — in two successive pictures.

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William Collier Jr. — Up and Down with Buster (1927) | www.vintoz.com
November 22, 2023

William Collier Jr. — Up and Down with Buster (1927) 🇺🇸

Whether Buster Collier’s spirits are high on the wing, or touching the depths of depression, he is thoughtful, casual, and finds ideals where they are least expected.

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Phyllis Haver — A Credit to Kansas (1927) | www.vintoz.com
November 21, 2023

Phyllis Haver — A Credit to Kansas (1927) 🇺🇸

Phyllis Haver, once a bathing girl, now marches gayly in the front rank of comediennes, and there’s no telling where she’ll stop.

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Patsy Ruth Miller — Patsy Ruth Flares Up (1927) 🇺🇸
November 16, 2023

Patsy Ruth Miller — Patsy Ruth Flares Up (1927) 🇺🇸

Miss Miller launches a protest against the “blah” roles that have been her lot, and holds forth on the subject of hook rugs, her decision to become a director, and her eccentric cook.

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Marceline Day — Marceline Keeps Cool (1927) | www.vintoz.com
November 15, 2023

Marceline Day — Marceline Keeps Cool (1927) 🇺🇸

It takes more than success in the movies to thrill Marceline Day. Though she is rapidly mounting the stairs to fame, she takes it all quite coolly and looks upon her film career as merely a very pleasant job.

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Don Alvarado — Spanish — with English Reserve (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 04, 2023

Don Alvarado — Spanish — with English Reserve (1929) 🇺🇸

Expecting to find a Latin youth determined to be romantic, the interviewer discovered Don Alvarado to be gently circumspect and disinclined to talk about himself.

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Esther Ralston — As She Is (1929) 🇺🇸
November 04, 2023

Esther Ralston — As She Is (1929) 🇺🇸

This accurate review of Miss Ralston's life includes the extremes of hardship and luxury, and accounts for the woman she is to-day.

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Mary Astor — Gone Are Her Languors (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 04, 2023

Mary Astor — Gone Are Her Languors (1929) 🇺🇸

A fainting heroine no longer, Mary Astor blazes forth in spangles and tights. — with a wry smile at her screen "past."

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Olga Baclanova — As She Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 01, 2023

Olga Baclanova — As She Is (1929) 🇺🇸

Steeped in the traditions of the European theater, her respect for her calling is almost a reverence, and her quiet approach to her work and life mystifies the film colony, because there is no mystery about her.

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Gertrude Astor — She Outgrew Stardom (1927) | www.vintoz.com
October 28, 2023

Gertrude Astor — She Outgrew Stardom (1927) 🇺🇸

How would you like to have two or three inches of superfluous height stand between you and stardom?

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Jaque Catelain — A Favourite from France (1924) | www.vintoz.com
October 05, 2023

Jaque Catelain — A Favourite from France (1924) 🇬🇧

Jaque Catelain is a favourite everywhere.

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J. Gordon Edwards — Directors I Have Met (1923) | www.vintoz.com
September 15, 2023

J. Gordon Edwards — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧

When William Fox decided to become a film producer, he looked around for efficient helpers and in the manager, or producing director of his stock company, found the man who was to play a most important role in the history of Fox Films.

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September 15, 2023

John Robertson — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧

John Robertson, who has directed some of the best of American pictures, is a great enthusiast where England is concerned.

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