Vintage Movie Resources

Greta Garbo — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 28, 2024

Greta Garbo — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

An exceptional and sympathetic analysis of the Garbo personality, which is no less remarkable and unusual outside the studio than before the camera.

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Corinne Griffith — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 28, 2024

Corinne Griffith — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

In this, the second of a series of character studies of famous stars, Corinne Griffith is shown to possess certain unsuspected qualities, including a sense of humor.

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Richard Dix — As He Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 28, 2024

Richard Dix — As He Is (1928) 🇺🇸

In this careful appraisal of Richard Dix, his career is followed step by step, and his popularity with coworkers and fans is accounted for.

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Norma Talmadge — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 27, 2024

Norma Talmadge — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

Much has been written about Norma Talmadge, but never has her real character been revealed as it is in this frank study — the first of a series of insights into the souls of the cinema great.

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February 27, 2024

Ramon Novarro — As He Is (1928) 🇺🇸

Picture Play is proud to offer this brilliant, comprehensive and sympathetic analysis to the admirers of Mr. Novarro.

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Casting Directors — Theirs Is Not a Happy Lot (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 26, 2024

Casting Directors — Theirs Is Not a Happy Lot (1928) 🇺🇸

Into the ears of the casting directors are poured the sorrows of Hollywood, every scheme and trick is practiced upon them to get work, and gratitude for their favors is followed by resentment when roles are withheld.

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Vilma Banky — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 26, 2024

Vilma Banky — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

This analysis of Vilma Banky is both penetrating and sympathetic, while the character, as well as the pronounced individuality of the beautiful Hungarian, is carefully presented.

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“Buddy” Ralston and Jobyna Ralston | Pull Hasn’t Helped Them At All (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 25, 2024

Pull Hasn’t Helped Them At All (1928) 🇺🇸

Being related to a screen celebrity has a good many disadvantages lined up against the advantages. This interesting story explains why most relatives of stars fail in their attempt to share the spotlight.

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Anita Garvin, Frances Lee, Estelle Bradley — Beauty Takes the Bumps! (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 24, 2024

Anita Garvin, Frances Lee, Estelle Bradley — Beauty Takes the Bumps! (1928) 🇺🇸

The players you laugh at on the screen probably work harder to cause that laugh, than those who are famous for “emoting.” This is an entertaining story of three of the former.

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William Haines — The Young Man of the Hour (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 23, 2024

William Haines — The Young Man of the Hour (1928) 🇺🇸

William Haines waited four years for his chance to prove what he could do on the screen, and ever since Brown of Harvard his performances and popularity have been pyramiding prodigiously. But above all things, he does not want to become a one-part actor.

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The Strange Case of Conway Tearle (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 23, 2024

The Strange Case of Conway Tearle (1928) 🇺🇸

Why was he suddenly banished from the screen at the height of his career? Was it the large salary he demanded, or his disturbing habit of talking back, or what? Certainly it was not that he was unwanted. This story will help you to draw your own conclusions.

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Yoshiko Okada (岡田嘉子) (1902–1992) | “Katsudoshashin” (活動写真) (1929) | www.vintoz.com
February 08, 2024

“Katsudoshashin” (活動写真) (1929) 🇺🇸

What is it? Well, read this article and find out for yourselves. Here’s a hint — it has to do with Japan, and American movies.

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Walter Hiers — They All Turn Him Down (1921) | www.vintoz.com
February 08, 2024

Walter Hiers — They All Turn Him Down (1921) 🇺🇸

Intensive training in the art of proposing has apparently not made Walter Hiers any more acceptable. He is known in Hollywood as “the rejection specialist.”

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Conrad Nagel — Too Good to Be Romantic (1928) | www.vintoz.com
January 06, 2024

Conrad Nagel — Too Good to Be Romantic (1928) 🇺🇸

That’s what producers and the fans have been thinking about Conrad Nagel, but Conrad has some ideas on the subject

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Sally Blane | Three Young Gals (1928) | www.vintoz.com
December 26, 2023

Loretta Young, Polly Ann Young, Sally Blane — Three Young Gals (1928) 🇺🇸

Loretta, Polly Ann Young, and Sally Blane are the most unalike sisters you could expect to find, yet all three are becoming well known to the fans.

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Kathleen Key — Little Sister to Lucrezia Borgia (1928) | www.vintoz.com
December 26, 2023

Kathleen Key — Little Sister to Lucrezia Borgia (1928) 🇺🇸

Kathleen Key, the first Movietone player to visit New York, shares a new addition to her public, and tells about talking pictures.

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John George — Give This Fellow a Hand (1928) | www.vintoz.com
December 25, 2023

John George — Give This Fellow a Hand (1928) 🇺🇸

Tufei Fatella, who is “John George” to the fans, has won a distinctive place on the screen, despite handicaps which would have destroyed a less valiant spirit.

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Fay Wray — Aloof and Friendly (1928) | www.vintoz.com
December 24, 2023

Fay Wray — Aloof and Friendly (1928) 🇺🇸

A sympathetic interviewer finds Fay Wray possessed of all the virtues of an ideal girl, and enthusiastically describes them — and her.

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Eleanor Boardman — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
December 24, 2023

Eleanor Boardman — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

An intelligent and comprehensive portrait of one of filmdom’s most vibrant but least-known personalities.

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Phyllis Haver — A Photoproof Pippin (1928) | www.vintoz.com
August 09, 2023

Phyllis Haver — A Photoproof Pippin (1928) 🇺🇸

Phyllis Haver sums herself up as “shanty Irish, born O’Hara, and hoping to get along,” but you will find there is more, much more, to be said of her, if you have not already said it yourself.

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Dorothy Revier — The Caviar of Poverty Row (1928) | www.vintoz.com
August 09, 2023

Dorothy Revier — The Caviar of Poverty Row (1928) 🇺🇸

She is Dorothy Revier, who is so easily the choicest possession of the independent companies that she is frequently borrowed by the big ones.

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Gilbert Roland — After Success — What? (1928) | www.vintoz.com
August 08, 2023

Gilbert Roland — After Success — What? (1928) 🇺🇸

Following his success in “Camille,” Gilbert Roland faced many problems he had never known before. This story explains how he has kept his balance in a situation where others have failed.

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F. W. Murnau — Murnau or never (1928) | www.vintoz.com
April 04, 2023

F. W. Murnau — Murnau or never (1928) 🇺🇸

An intrepid interviewer trails the red-headed German director to his lair.

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Movie Extras — They Also Starve (1928) | www.vintoz.com
April 03, 2023

Movie Extras — They Also Starve (1928) 🇺🇸

The Hardships of Extras' Lives Boost the California Suicide Rate.

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