Vintage Movie Resources
Tala Birell — Hollywood’s Latest Viennese Sensation (1932) 🇺🇸
Tala Birell has poise and bearing and an exotic appeal — qualities which have placed her right in the front-line trenches of stardom.
Claudette Colbert — The Phantom President's Opposite (1932) 🇺🇸
Claudette isn’t a bit downcast by the fact that she was the girl chosen to play opposite the one and only Mr. Cohan in “The Phantom President.”
Ann Dvorak — Three (Films) on a Match (1932) 🇺🇸
Pert? And then some! Ann’s the kind of girl who can not only keep her chin up, but can tilt it at an angle.
Basil Rathbone — Once A Villain (1937) 🇺🇸
Basil has made people hate him so thoroughly they like him tremendously on the screen.
Wendy Barrie — Hongkong’s Contribution (1935) 🇺🇸
Hong Kong-born Wendy Barrie is a glorious madcap, and a welcome newcomer to pictures.
The Stars and Their Pet Superstitions — Knock on Hollywood (1936) 🇺🇸
Miriam Hopkins trusts in just a special kind of rabbit foot. It must be the left hind foot of a rabbit shot in a church-yard on a moonlit night.
The Star Creators of Hollywood — W. S. Van Dyke (1936) 🇺🇸
The third in a series of brilliant articles about the men responsible for the success or failure of a picture.
The Star Creators of Hollywood — John Ford (1936) 🇺🇸
The first of a series of brilliant articles about the men whose genius lifts pictures and personalities to fame — the directors.
The Star Creators of Hollywood — Frank Lloyd (1936) 🇺🇸
The second in a series of revealing articles on the masterminds behind pictures and personalities— the directors.
Men Behind the Stars — Mervyn LeRoy (1937) 🇺🇸
The variety of past contributions to the screen marks him with unequalled versatility of genius. He has coupled such hard-hitting drama as “Little Caesar” with the frivolities of a “Gold Diggers” extravaganza.
D. W. Griffith — The Star Maker Whose Dreams Turned to Dust (1934) 🇺🇸
He produced over four hundred films. Only a small part of profits these movies made ever found their way back to Griffith. When they did, he usually tossed the money, with reckless courage, into another picture.
Men Behind the Stars — Tay Garnett (1937) 🇺🇸
Before Tay Garnett found film fame, Garnett was an actor, an artist, an author and an aviator. Not to mention his stint as a thorough-going newspaperman and a sailor of the bounding main.
Men Behind the Stars — Clarence Brown (1936) 🇺🇸
Clarence Brown’s career is unique. Educated at the University of Tennessee, from which he was graduated with degrees as an electrical and a mechanical engineer, he did not immediately interest himself in motion pictures.
Men Behind the Stars — John M. Stahl (1937) 🇺🇸
By the time John M. Stahl had reached his sixteenth birthday, he was sure that he did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father.
Men Behind the Stars — William Dieterle (1937) 🇺🇸
When three pictures are listed in the select circle of the ten best box-office pictures of last year — and these are directed by one man, it is an achievement seldom, if ever, recorded in motion picture history.
Men Behind the Stars — Roy Del Ruth (1938) 🇺🇸
Despite the fact that he is only 42 years old, Del Ruth has been identified with the picture business for more than two decades, having made his start as a scenarist for Mack Sennett in 1915, graduating to directorship three years later.
Men Behind the Stars — Richard Thorpe (1937) 🇺🇸
Richard Thorpe is one of Hollywood’s youngest and one of its most versatile directors. If an interviewer were to ask him “What have you done in the movies?” he could truthfully answer “Everything.”
Men Behind the Stars — Robert Z. Leonard (1937) 🇺🇸
No list of the real pioneers of motion pictures is complete without the name of Robert Z. Leonard. In 1910, he made his cinema debut in “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” in the role of John Alden.
Men Behind the Stars — Sidney Franklin (1937) 🇺🇸
Sidney Franklin is a man who would find no place in Hollywood — if Hollywood were the sort of place its critics paint it!
Men Behind the Stars — Richard Boleslawski (1937) 🇺🇸
He went to Hollywood when the screen was frantically searching for dialogue directors; was given three jobs and fired from them in rapid succession.
Men Behind the Stars — Archie Mayo (1937) 🇺🇸
Archie Mayo has never made a picture in schedule time — and he has never made a mediocre film.
Men Behind the Stars — Mark Sandrich (1936) 🇺🇸
“Go West, Young Man, Go West!” Mark Sandrich was going to school, Columbia University in New York, when he heard it — he heeded — and that’s a success story. | Mona Barrie and Binnie Barnes are peddling Tuna Salad Barrie and Admiration Costume Hosiery next to this interview.