Vintage Movie Resources
William A. Seiter — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
William A. Seiter is recognized as one of the leading progressive picture directors
John M. Stahl — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
John M. Stahl, supervising production of the Tiffany-Stahl Production, stepped into the role of motion picture director as, what would be termed in baseball, a pinch hitter.
John S. Robertson — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
John S. Robertson, one of the leading directors of the screen industry, refused to be a screen villain, so he became a director.
Fred Niblo — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Motion picture stars are not the only ones to claim interesting backgrounds.
Carey Wilson — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Rarely in the history of the motion picture industry has a sales manager of one of the larger companies switched to scenario writer and producer and made a success of it.
Robert F. Hill — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Twenty years ago, Robert F. Hill, now noted motion picture director, started on his professional career in the somewhat lowly capacity of dresser.
Frank Capra — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Frank Capra, motion picture director, got a good break when he returned from service in the army following the war.
Bruce Mitchell — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Bruce Mitchell, one of the foremost of the Universal directors, seems to have had a varied career before finally alighting in the midst of the Hollywood film industry
Richard Talmadge — Could a Broken Neck Stop Him? Not Much! (1927) 🇺🇸
Richard Talmadge is a living example that a man can break his neck in the movies and still go on doing daredevil stunts. It’s only a matter of nerve, he says. But if you lose that, you’re gone!
Frank Hopper — One Chance in Thousands (1927) 🇺🇸
Frank Hopper had been hearing for years that he looked like Theodore Roosevelt, but it took a stranger to see in that resemblance a chance for him to play the great American in “The Rough Riders.”
Roy D’Arcy — Just a Little Fella Trying to Get Along (1927) 🇺🇸
Hypnotic. That’s the word. Hypnotic. Piercing blue eyes, a yellow overcoat, a cane, flashing white teeth and a luxurious pair of sideburns.
André Beranger — He Takes His Comedy Straight (1927) 🇺🇸
After years and years of “emoting,” Andre Beranger has turned out to be a comedian — a most “polite” comedian, whose secret of being funny is that he doesn’t realize that he is.
Even the Athletes are Lured (1927) 🇺🇸
In this day when absolutely every one is flocking into the movies — society belles, stage stars, royalty and circus performers — even the manly athletes, though much averse to powder puffs and grease paint, have succumbed to the lure of the screen. Witness Gene Tunney, Charley Paddock and “Red” Grange.
Jacqueline Logan — “Jackie” Startles Hollywood (1927) 🇺🇸
The choice of Jacqueline Logan to play Mary Magdalene in “The King of Kings” astonished the film colony, but the complete change in her personality amid scenes of biblical magnificence has caused even greater wonderment.
Constance Howard — A Flapper Who Watches Her Step (1927) 🇺🇸
Though technically a flapper, Constance Howard has the wisdom and poise of a veteran in life’s affairs. She even avoids ice water to safeguard her health for the long career ahead of her.
Vera Voronina — A Ray from Russia (1927) | www.vintoz.com 🇺🇸
Vera Voronina’s gay, vibrant personality is not at all what you’d expect from “darkest Russia,” but that is the land from which that charming young actress has come. This interview was had with her shortly after her arrival, while she was at work on her first American film.
“Shadows” of the Stars (1926) 🇺🇸
These humble persons are even more lowly than “doubles,” but many a girl gets her start in the movies by playing “shadow” to a star — that is, substituting for her on the set during the adjusting of cameras and lights.
Jack Holt — En Famille (1927) 🇺🇸
Jack Holt had to resort to a most ingenious stratagem to win the lady who is his charming wife, but a glimpse into his contented and attractive little family makes you realize how well worth while it was.
A Pot of Gold for Billie Dove (1927) 🇺🇸
For five years she has followed a rainbow of dreams that, it seemed, would never be realized. At last she has won her reward.
Charles Ray — Bucking his Hoodoo (1927) 🇺🇸
Charles Ray, whose bad luck has amounted to a hoodoo and reduced him to bankruptcy, survives defeat because he has never acknowledged himself beaten — not even now, when he pays rent for the home he once owned.
Rod La Rocque — Rod Takes the Bitter with the Sweet (1927) 🇺🇸
Along with the tremendous success that has come to Rod La Rocque in the past four years, there has crept into his soul a trace of bitterness, but Rod takes bitter and sweet alike with a grin, and holds himself alone responsible for whatever happens to him.
Jacques Lerner — A Man Who Makes a Monkey of Himself (1927) 🇺🇸
Jacques Lerner, the French actor who portrays the title role of the “monkey” in “The Monkey Talks,” has for years been making a specialty of impersonating apes.
John Bowers — What a Man Should Not Wear (1927) 🇺🇸
John Bowers, one of the most correctly dressed men in Hollywood, tells exactly what a man should and should not wear on certain occasions, and points out many mistakes in dress made by men who may think they are being very fashionable.