Vintage Movie Resources

Raymond Hackett — The Lawyer for the Defense (1929) 🇺🇸
July 21, 2023

Raymond Hackett — The Lawyer for the Defense (1929) 🇺🇸

Raymond Hackett pleads himself into a talkie hit

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Nina May — A Jungle Lorelei (1929) 🇺🇸
July 21, 2023

Nina May — A Jungle Lorelei (1929) 🇺🇸

Nina Mae McKinney is the greatest acting discovery of the age, and I’ll say she certainly acts with every fiber.

Note: This text was published in 1929 and some readers might find some of the African American stereotyping offensive.

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Margaret Kingston  | Why Don't They Star? (1929) | www.vintoz.com
June 30, 2023

Why Don't They Star? (1929) 🇺🇸

Beautiful, alluring, with pronounced ability to wear gorgeous costumes — why is it that certain popular players never attain stardom?

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Bill Powell — As He Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
June 12, 2023

Bill Powell — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸

A brilliant resume of the character and career of one of the most adroit and sure-fire stars.

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David Rollins — Oh, Davie, Behave! (1929) | www.vintoz.com
June 12, 2023

David Rollins — Oh, Davie, Behave! (1929) 🇺🇸

David Rollins, at twenty, hasn't quite found himself and is undecided whether to be whimsical, or aloof and mysterious, but until he does decide he succeeds in being thoroughly engaging and rather touchingly adolescent.

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Alice Joyce — She Acts When She Chooses (1929) | www.vintoz.com
June 08, 2023

Alice Joyce — She Acts When She Chooses (1929) 🇺🇸

Alice Joyce is the only player who retires for long periods, and finds the public waiting for her when she comes back for an occasional picture.

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What's Become of Them? (1929) | www.vintoz.com
June 08, 2023

What's Become of Them? (1929) 🇺🇸

Kenneth Harlan, Charles Ray, Bert Lytell, and Cullen Landis were once cream in the fans' coffee, but why do they enrich the screen no longer? The writer of this article sought them out for an answer and here you have his report of them as they are to-day.

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May McAvoy — What the "Mc" in McAvoy Means (1927) | www.vintoz.com
June 02, 2023

May McAvoy — What the "Mc" in McAvoy Means (1927) 🇺🇸

May, of the McAvoy clan, has a strong whiff of Scotch in her ancestry and proves it by driving shrewd bargains for her professional services, to the amazement of those who believe her to be just a sweet little thing.

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Dorothy Mackaill — Following the Blue Print (1927) | www.vintoz.com
June 02, 2023

Dorothy Mackaill — Following the Blue Print (1927) 🇺🇸

Dorothy Mackaill planned her career with care, and she is following it according to specifications, even though her sudden marriage surprised her almost as much as it did the world at large. | Irene Rich uses Maybelline

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Tim McCoy — Born to the West — and East, Too (1927) | www.vintoz.com
June 02, 2023

Tim McCoy — Born to the West — and East, Too (1927) 🇺🇸

Though he is a new cowboy star of the films, Colonel Tim McCoy is a product of Eastern education, army training, and Western breeding — and on his ranch he dresses for dinner.

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Lloyd Hughes — Just an Average American (1927) | www.vintoz.com
June 02, 2023

Lloyd Hughes — Just an Average American (1927) 🇺🇸

You could meet Lloyd Hughes anywhere, for there are a million like him in this U. S. A. of ours. Perhaps that is why the fans like him so well.

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James Hall — You Never Can Tell (1927) | www.vintoz.com
June 02, 2023

James Hall — You Never Can Tell (1927) 🇺🇸

James Hall's quick rise on the screen should be a lesson to those who told him he didn't register, and that he wasn't a typical American.

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Syd Saylor in “Let George Do It” | www.vintoz.com
May 23, 2023

Sid Saylor to Play in Stern Comedies (1926) 🇺🇸

Sid Saylor to Play in Stern Comedies; contrary announcements are refuted.

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"Metropolis" Likely to be Sensation (1926) | www.vintoz.com
May 03, 2023

"Metropolis" Likely to be Sensation (1926) 🇺🇸

German Writer believes Ufa Special, for Paramount Release, will create unparalleled interest here.

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Bud Duncan and Lloyd Hamilton in A Bathtub Bandit (1917) | www.vintoz.com
April 25, 2023

Lloyd Hamilton — A Flyer in Art (1923) 🇺🇸

What happened to Lloyd Hamilton, he of the sad expression and the huge feet, in the presence of Art in the awfully refined Studio of Mr. Griffith.

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The Tragedy of Mary Miles Minter (1923) | www.vintoz.com
April 21, 2023

The Tragedy of Mary Miles Minter (1923) 🇺🇸

The story of the screen child who wasn't allowed to grow up — until a murder lifted her from stunted youth to dazed womanhood.

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Nita Naldi — "Sure," Said Nita (1924) | www.vintoz.com
April 21, 2023

Nita Naldi — "Sure," Said Nita (1924) 🇺🇸

A Chat in the New Manner.

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Kathlyn Williams | Hidden Hands of Filmdom (1923) | www.vintoz.com
April 20, 2023

Hidden Hands of Filmdom (1923) 🇺🇸

Who are the Silent Builders of the Big Screen Reputations?

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Edward Everett Horton (left) in Ruggles of Red Gap (1923) | www.vintoz.com
April 19, 2023

Edward Everett Horton — Not the Perfect Male, But — (1924) 🇺🇸

Edward Everett Horton took up acting because he thought it would be fun.

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William Selig — Col. Seligs Stories of Movie Life (1923) | www.vintoz.com
April 14, 2023

William Selig — Col. Seligs Stories of Movie Life (1923) 🇺🇸

Reminiscence, Grave and Gay, of Twenty-Five Years on a Studio Lot.

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Myrtle Stedman — Myrtle of the Mountains (1920) | www.vintoz.com
April 14, 2023

Myrtle Stedman — Myrtle of the Mountains (1920) 🇺🇸

Of course, she had to get Chicago out of her system or the city would have been calling her all the time.

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Beatrice Burnham — The Rise of Beatrice (1920) | www.vintoz.com
April 13, 2023

Beatrice Burnham — The Rise of Beatrice (1920) 🇺🇸

A soft, cool hand in mine... black eyes that flashed behind a veil... a sigh... It was done so deftly!

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