Vintage Movie Resources
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
Gertrude Astor — She Outgrew Stardom (1927) 🇺🇸
How would you like to have two or three inches of superfluous height stand between you and stardom?
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.
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.
Herbert Brenon — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
Herbert Brenon holds the record for being the first director of American pictures of leading rank, who came from across the sea.
Elmer Clifton — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
Elmer Clifton has been in the picture game for nearly nine years, and has always been known as a clever director, but his association with D. W. Griffith made a great many people think that his cleverness was due largely to the latter fact.
James Cruze — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
From the hero of “The Million Dollar Mystery” to the director of a million-dollar movie is quite an accomplishment. And James Cruze, who put on “The Covered Wagon” for Paramount, made the step in a little less than ten years.
Frederic Sullivan-Londoner — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
This is the story of one of the many Englishmen who have made good in pictures and on the stage.
Rex Ingram — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
Rex Ingram was born in Dublin, educated at the University, and destined for the Bar. Unfortunately for his family’s happiness, he decided that his career was art, and so ran away and came to America.
Allan Dwan — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
Most of us would be content with one perfectly good vocation; Allan Dwan has at least three at his fingertips, not to mention five or six more at which he could probably make a living, if he had to do so.
Frank Lloyd — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
The first of a new series dealing with the personalities of the men behind the megaphone.
Millard Webb — Directors I Have Met (1924) 🇬🇧
Hollywood’s Baby Director” is the unofficial title bestowed upon Millard Webb, whose years of experience of this world number only twenty-nine.
Leah Baird — She’s a Regular Trooper, Leah Baird is (1924) 🇺🇸
And when one actor says that about another it constitutes the perfect tribute