Vintage Movie Resources
Erich Von Stroheim Plays Aladdin… (1926) 🇺🇸
… and picks the comparatively unknown Fay Wray for the leading feminine role in his new film, The Wedding March, thereby bringing a miracle into her hitherto unexciting life.
Victor Varconi — A Man Who Kept His Head (1926) 🇺🇸
Malcolm St. Clair — Sex, With a Sense of Humor! (1926) 🇺🇸
Myrna Loy — Myrna, Are You Real? (1926) 🇺🇸
Buck Jones — The Simple Life for Buck! (1926) 🇺🇸
Provided you think that cow-punching, bronco-busting, and taming belligerent Mexicans is simple! Not to mention dare-devil movie stunts. But it all seems simple to Buck Jones, and that's the life he loves.
Walter Pidgeon — Presenting Mr. Pidgeon (1926) 🇺🇸
Jack Mulhall — Discovered (1926) 🇺🇸
Ford Sterling — A Contradictory Comedian (1926) 🇺🇸
Lads and Lassies of Laughter (1926) — Part II 🇺🇸
Part II: The second contingent of young people who appear in short film comedies, and about whom you have read little, are here brought to your attention. | Go back to Part I
Lads and Lassies of Laughter (1926) — Part I 🇺🇸
Part I: A full score of talented and optically pleasing young people smile and prance before your eyes on the screen, but you rarely read anything about them. Often you do not even know their names. Yet they are the players who make you laugh loudest, and you see them more often than your heroes and heroines of the drama, Meet your friends of the short comedies! | Move on to Part II
Arlette Marchal — Mademoiselle — Not Grisette (1926) 🇺🇸
In Arlette Marchal, brought from France by Paramount, is found the carefully reared flower of that great institution, the French home, rather than the little devil of the boulevards.
What Emil Jannings Fears (1926) 🇺🇸
The great German actor, discussaing art and his coming visit to this country to make pictures for Paramount, betrays a desire with which many will sympathize and which some may try to alleviate.
Richard Dix — He Rolls His Own (1926) 🇺🇸
Richard Dix explains how he and his director, Gregory La Cava, evolve their popular screen comedies, from the moment the scenario — which sometimes is nothing more than a scrap of paper — is placed in their hands.
Ford Sterling — Shifting from Low to High (1926) 🇺🇸
Our Chinese Movie Actors (1926) 🇺🇸
The Orientals who take part in our movies are just as ambitious for screen success as any of our American players. This story reveals some interesting things about some of them.
Louise Brooks — Manhattan Technique (1926) 🇺🇸
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.