Vintage Movie Resources
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
Priscilla Dean — Oh, Why Did They Name You Priscilla? (1924) 🇺🇸
Patricia, or Carmelita, or Delphine would have fitted, but not that Puritanical cognomen
Al Christie — Directors I Have Met (1924) 🇬🇧
Al Christie is the globe trotter of producers but when he is in the States, he prefers Hollywood.
Harold Shaw — Directors I Have Met (1924) 🇬🇧
I had always thought that Harold Shaw was an Englishman, even though he was a member of the Old Edison Company some fifteen years ago.
The Art of Abel Gance (1924) 🇬🇧
David Wark Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Rex Ingram, Abel Gance! Four names in the world’s screen industry which convey to the picturegoer a wealth of meaning.
Pearl White — Good-by Boys, I’m Through (1924) 🇺🇸
Star who never knew fear says that “Terror” is her last picture
Our Gang (1924) 🇺🇸
“Hi, you, get off’r that football. How kin we play if you lay on it all the time, anyway?”
Edna Purviance — Hollywood’s Mystery Woman (1924) 🇺🇸
She is in pictures, but not of them. But she is both in and of the very best in California society
Victor Seastrom — New Hope for the American Photoplay (1923) 🇺🇸
Victor Seastrom talks about our Motion Pictures
Sōjin Kamiyama— How Sojin Does It (1927) 🇺🇸
It’s simply a question of teeth, says Sojin, the remarkable Japanese character actor. How he achieves some of his eccentric make-ups is here revealed, along with a glimpse into his interesting past.
Lupino Lane — A Nipper from Piccadilly (1927) 🇺🇸
Lupino Lane, the British comedian who is now a success in films, comes of a family of pantomimists and actors famous since the fifteenth century.
Guinn “Big Boy” Williams — He Dug His Way In (1929) 🇺🇸
Guinn Williams entered the movies by means of a pickax, but it has taken him ten years to reach the inner circle.
Phyllis Haver — A Photoproof Pippin (1928) 🇺🇸
Phyllis Haver sums herself up as “shanty Irish, born O’Hara, and hoping to get along,” but you will find there is more, much more, to be said of her, if you have not already said it yourself.
Dorothy Revier — The Caviar of Poverty Row (1928) 🇺🇸
She is Dorothy Revier, who is so easily the choicest possession of the independent companies that she is frequently borrowed by the big ones.
Universal Pictures Directors Featured in Lucky Strike Ads (1927)
Biggest Cigarette Advertising Campaign Ever Launched
Gilbert Roland — After Success — What? (1928) 🇺🇸
Following his success in “Camille,” Gilbert Roland faced many problems he had never known before. This story explains how he has kept his balance in a situation where others have failed.