Vintage Movie Resources
Roland Young — Always Plays Absurdly Brief Roles (1932) 🇺🇸
Quizzical humor, an insinuating voice, and rare intelligence — these are his extraordinary gifts.
Ivan Lebedeff — Kissing Ladies’ Hands on the Least Provocation (1932) 🇺🇸
After six years in hurly-burly Hollywood his politeness has earned stardom and the admiration of the more romantic fans.
Louise Brooks and Anna May Wong — Their European Souls (1930) 🇺🇸
Some are born European; some achieve Europe; and some have Europe thrust upon them.
Louise Brooks — Returning as Russian Charmer (1931) 🇺🇸
Louise Brooks is returning to the screen as the Russian charmer in the Fox production, “God’s Gift to Women.”
Louise Brooks — Brooksy’s Back! (1931) 🇺🇸
Brooksy’s back! So the tidings spread over Hollywood when Louise Brooks returned after a long absence abroad, where she made several pictures in Germany.
Marlene Dietrich — The Blonde Venus (1932) 🇺🇸
Marlene completely feminine — and completely mystifying to boot!
Betty Lawford — Used to Footlights (1932) 🇺🇸
Betty Lawford reveals why so many Hollywood girls — even Garbo Garbo — wear a lock of hair over one eye.
Joan Blondell — “I Won’t Say Yes — And I Won’t Say No” (1932) 🇺🇸
“I won’t say yes — and I won’t say no.”
Thelma Todd — She’d Rather Have Fun Than Fame (1932) 🇺🇸
When a girl has a Cupid’s-bow mouth, and eyes to go with it, she usually takes her beauty seriously. But not Thelma!
Rochelle Hudson — Getting Ahead Fast in Hollywood (1932) 🇺🇸
Rochelle is giving you one of those looks straight from the shoulder — the kind they give strangers in Oklahoma.
Cecil Beaton — Taking Beauty For a Ride (1931) 🇺🇸
Cecil Beaton, English photographer, doesn’t mind telling what our sirens lack.
Lilyan Tashman — Tired and Sophisticated (1931) 🇺🇸
Beauties aren’t beauties, photographer Cecil Beaton says, until they’re off their guard.
Adolphe Menjou — He Refuses to be a Star (1931) 🇺🇸
Adolphe Menjou prefers less honor and fewer worries.
Scissor Craft — How Lotte Reiniger Makes Silhouette Films (1936) 🇺🇸
For Lotte Reiniger’s silhouette film, Prince Achmet, a quarter of a million separate photographs were taken.
Lupe Vélez — Sirenish Señorita (1931) 🇺🇸
Before the cameras Lupe is a sirenish señorita, mucha caliente.
Lupe Vélez — Aviary (1934) 🇺🇸
Pretty Polly — and pretty Lupe — finish off their swim with a little conversation.
Walter Huston — “If I Were Roosevelt —” (1933) 🇺🇸
“Gabriel Over the White House” marks Walter Huston’s third term as President, as he has previously given us Lincoln and Grant on the screen.
James Cagney — Answers 21 Big Questions (1933) 🇺🇸
Movie Classic puts twenty-one impertinent questions to the recently rebellious redhead, and he makes twenty-one pertinent answers.
Motion Picture News Blue Book (1930) — Tod Browning 🇺🇸
Vintage Advertisement — Movie Director Tod Browning
Motion Picture News Blue Book (1930) — James Cruze 🇺🇸
Vintage Advertisement — Movie Director James Cruze
Motion Picture News Blue Book (1930) — John Ford 🇺🇸
Vintage Advertisement — Movie Director John Ford
Motion Picture News Blue Book (1930) — Roy Del Ruth 🇺🇸
Vintage Advertisement — Movie Director Roy Del Ruth
Motion Picture News Blue Book (1930) — Frank Lloyd 🇺🇸
Vintage Advertisement — Movie Director Frank Lloyd
Motion Picture News Blue Book (1930) — Lambert Hillyer 🇺🇸
Vintage Advertisement — Movie Director Lambert Hillyer