Vintage Movie Resources
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.
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.
Al Christie — Everybody Calls Him Al (1927) 🇺🇸
In 1916 he and his brother Charlie started their comedy motion picture company with a bank roll of something like $6000, and today he owns one of the best equipped studios in Hollywood, has a kennel of the finest pedigreed dogs in the world, is almost financially independent, makes Europe at least once a year, and still “everybody calls him Al.”
Bobby Vernon — On and Off (1927) 🇺🇸
It was a small picture house in Glendale. In the crowded lobby hung a huge lithograph announcing the evening’s comedy. Beside it stood the manager of the theatre in deep conversation with a boyish looking, blue-eyed chap. A ragged newsboy rounded the corner and emitted a shrill Whoopee! at sight of the lithograph. For a minute or two he studied it in ecstasy, then he tugged at the young fellows coat. “Hey, mister, who are you?” he demanded, curiously.
Stories About the Notables of Films — Rise of Victor Schertzinger as Director Covers Ten Years Unmarred by Failure (1927) 🇺🇸
He has directed sixty-eight feature pictures without having ever been idle a month — started with Ince at $300 a week under contract.
Michael Curtiz Spent Ten Years Directing Super-Specials (1927) 🇺🇸
Early American interview with Michael Curtiz.
Louise Brooks — Rolled Stockings (1927) 🇺🇸
Don’t think you’ll see a stocking show, or even a shocking show. There’s not a single shot of a pretty girl rolling her own, socks or ciggies. Instead, Rolled Stockings is a corking college story