Vintage Movie Resources

Frances Farmer (Frances Elena Farmer) (1913–1970) | www.vintoz.com
October 16, 2026

Frances Farmer — She Came and Got It (1937) 🇺🇸

Frances Farmer admits the importance of fate in her career

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Luis Alberni (1886–1962) | www.vintoz.com
October 16, 2026

Luis Alberni — Peppery Alberni (1937) 🇺🇸

Luis Alberni is another of those Hollywood paradoxes

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October 16, 2026

No Chums for Stars (1937) 🇺🇸

Few close friendships exist among the women stars, no matter what you may read to the contrary

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Hans Dreier (1885–1966) | www.vintoz.com
October 08, 2026

Hans Dreier — Astronomy Aids Art Department (1936) 🇺🇸

Moon jobs, according to Hans Dreier, are the most ticklish of astronomical subjects in a movie

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Edward Snyder (Edward Joseph Schneider) (1895–1982) | www.vintoz.com
October 08, 2026

Camera Angles — Edward Snyder (1935) 🇺🇸

In 1912, Pathé studio production head Louis Gasnier presented camera equipment to Edward Snyder and instructed him to shoot tests, stills, and miscellaneous shots

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January 14, 2026

Introducing Bob Burns — Arkansas Traveler (1936) 🇺🇸

Bob Burns (1890–1956) is the comic for Bing Crosby and he’s radio’s newest best bet

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January 14, 2026

Blanche Sweet’s Love Story (1936) 🇺🇸

A strange friendship led to Blanche Sweet’s recent marriage

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Polly Walters (Maud Walters) (1913–1994) | www.vintoz.com
January 12, 2026

Polly Walters — Pretty Polly (1934) 🇺🇸

Polly Walters is slender, blonde minx with a nasal pitch to her voice

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Phyllis Barry (Gertrude Phyllis Hillyard) (1908–1954) | www.vintoz.com
January 12, 2026

Phyllis Barry — Is There a “New Deal” in Love? (1934) 🇺🇸

“Is there a “New Deal” for love?” asks Phyllis Barry

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Warren William (Warren William Krech) (1894–1948) | www.vintoz.com
January 08, 2026

Warren William — Does an Actor Work for a Living? (1934) 🇺🇸

Warren William is hitting a real stride as the film season rounds the turn for the finish of the 1933–34 year

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January 08, 2026

Harry Lachman — Artist, Director, Producer and Writer (1934) 🇺🇸

Harry Lachman is the only one, to our knowledge, who works by chart

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June Lang (Winifred June Vlasek) (1917–2005) | www.vintoz.com
January 07, 2026

June Vlasek — Complexion Complexes (1934) 🇺🇸

“Clothes may make the man, but they're a long way from making a woman perfect,” says June Vlasek

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Wera Engels (1905–1988) | www.vintoz.com
January 06, 2026

Wera Engels (1934) 🇺🇸

Wera Engels is not the German Clara Bow!

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Warren William (Warren William Krech) (1894–1948) | www.vintoz.com
January 05, 2026

Warren William — Minnesota’s Mighty Man of the Movies (1933) 🇺🇸

“From pickle salesman to stardom” is the shortest way of describing the remarkable record of Warren William

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Lorena Layson (Lorena Mayer Jones) (1907–1985) | www.vintoz.com
January 03, 2026

Lorena Layson — The Booty of Beauty (1933) 🇺🇸

There is nothing illegitimate or frivolously vain in trying to be beautiful

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Ruth Hall — Florida’s Fairest (1933) 🇺🇸
December 30, 2025

Ruth Hall — Florida’s Fairest (1933) 🇺🇸

Ruth Hall’s favorite vocal exercise is a good football game. She usually comes away without her voice

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Norman Z. McLeod (Norman Zenos McLeod) (1898–1964) | www.vintoz.com
December 28, 2025

Norman Z. McLeod — This Business of Directing (1934) 🇺🇸

7th of a series of articles by and of the well known directors in the Hollywood studios

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Joseph Allen (Allen Brook) (1918–1962) | www.vintoz.com
October 28, 2025

Future Favorites — Allen Brook (1938) 🇺🇸

Allen Brook would have been an automobile engineer if his acting ambitions hadn’t materialized

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Future Favorites — Gordon Oliver (1938) 🇺🇸
October 28, 2025

Future Favorites — Gordon Oliver (1938) 🇺🇸

You’ll like young Gordon Oliver especially after seeing him play opposite Kay Francis in Women Are Like That

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October 13, 2025

Fanchon Royer — Hidden Glamor (1938) 🇺🇸

Fanchon Royer, only woman film producer, proves there are other fields than acting for smart girls to conquer

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Franchot Tone Thaws (1935) 🇺🇸
October 10, 2025

Franchot Tone Thaws (1935) 🇺🇸

You should read this interview to know Franchot Tone better

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William A. Seiter and Glen MacWilliams (1930) | www.vintoz.com
June 27, 2025

Knights of the Camera (1930) 🇺🇸

Unsung artists of the cinema

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June 06, 2025

Stephen Roberts — How to Become a Movie Director (1933) 🇺🇸

This is the third of a series of articles of or by the screen’s greatest motion picture directors which this magazine is running exclusively

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April 25, 2025

Eddie Albert — Very Good Eddie (1939) 🇺🇸

There’s a reason why Eddie Albert’s tops in his profession

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