Vintage Movie Resources

What the Follies girls are to Broadway, the Sennett bathing beauties once were to Hollywood. A few have risen to stardom. But most of them have vanished completely. 

Illustrations by Bert Levy (1929)

Victor Schertzinger — Composer and Director

He has directed sixty-eight feature pictures without having ever been idle a month — started with Ince at $300 a week under contract.

“How old are you?” Cecil B. DeMille asked. “Fourteen,” replied Carol. “Go home and grow up. Then come back and see me,” said C.B. “Yes, Mr. DeMille,” said Carol, unconscious of the fact that her answer was to go down in history as one of the by-words of the great motion picture industry.

Writer Rob Wagner visits Anna May Wong at her parent's home and they talk, among other things, about racism in Hollywood.

Note: This text was published in 1928 and some readers might find some of the Asian stereotyping offensive.

Exquisitely hard-boiled 19 years old Louise Brooks is interviewed by a awed journalist, and this is how the interview starts: 

“I live only for my art,” Louise said. “I read nothing but instructive books.” She looked up from beneath her long lashes to see how it was going.

In the two previous installments (April 1928 | May 1928) of her fascinating story, Miss Garbo told of her lonely childhood in Sweden and of her first ambitions to become an actress. As a young girl she entered the Royal Dramatic School in Stockholm and while she was still a student, Mauritz Stiller discovered her screen possibilities. Her first European picture was a great success but, because of bad financial conditions in Europe, her career seemed at a standstill when Stiller met Louis B. Mayer in Berlin. Mayer signed a contract with both Stiller and Miss Garbo. At the end of the summer, Miss Garbo sailed for America. She was shy, strange and she knew no English. But she had high hopes and expected to find New York carpeted with flowers. Now read the final chapter of this engrossing life story.

An overview of Hollywood's power players on the eve of the silent movie era. Illustrated by de Bru (a pseudonym by bandleader Xavier Cugat, who did not forget to include himself in this drawing).