Vintage Movie Resources
Jack Conway (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — As an actor on the stage and screen, Jack Conway served a profitable apprenticeship to become one of Hollywood’s highly successful directors.
Dorothy Arzner (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The only woman director in motion pictures, Dorothy Arzner, under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, first aspired to a medical career.
C. Aubrey Smith — Three Score Years and Ten (1935) 🇺🇸
C. Aubrey Smith looks back on a full and dramatic life.
Anna May Wong (黃柳霜) — East Meets West (1938) 🇺🇸
Anna May Wong, back on the screen after an absence of several years, discusses her native land.
Myrna Loy — Working Girl (1934) 🇺🇸
Exotic Myrna Loy keeps a sane head on those pretty shoulders.
Fernand Gravet — Parisian Playboy (1938) 🇺🇸
Something about a young man who takes his play as well as his work seriously.
Allen Jenkins — Dead-Pan Wow (1934) 🇺🇸
Allen Jenkins is the rising master of comedy who doesn’t hesitate to steal a scene from the best of them. And he doesn’t hand out dignified interviews.
Nat Pendleton — He Was Smart to Play Dumb (1936) 🇺🇸
I’d expected a hard-boiled mug you wouldn’t want to meet on a dark night; a “deeze, dem, and dose” conversationalist, and a guy who couldn’t count to twelve except on a pair of dice.
Hugh Herbert — Picture Stealer No. 1 (1936) 🇺🇸
So he took the somewhat less than 50,000 dollars and the three lines of dialogue — and this is what he did with them.
Blore, Simpson, Treacher — Butlers Are Only Skin Deep (1936) 🇺🇸
Three famous screen gentlemen’s “gentlemen” Eric Blore, Ivan Simpson and Arthur Treacher, reveal their real selves.
Joel McCrea — Joel and the Glamor Girls (1936) 🇺🇸
The producers first took an active interest in the Joel McCrea case when they discovered that he was a pretty kisser.
Victor McLaglen — From Bagdad to Beverly Hills (1936) 🇺🇸
The exciting real-life adventures of Victor McLaglen, told at last.
Fred Astaire — Ten Lives — All Secret! (1936) 🇺🇸
Fred Astaire has been reading others’ views of his ‘”secret” life and decides to set forth a few ideas of his own on the subject.
El Brendel — Yust a Fearless Feller (1930) 🇺🇸
Meet El Brendel, the comedian with the riotous Swedish dialect which did not come to him by inheritance. For his father was born in Bavaria and his mother is Irish.
Peter Lorre — Monarch of Menace (1936) 🇺🇸
Peter Lorre tells how a mere accident made him famous as the screen’s craftiest “bad man”.
Sparks, Horton, Armetta — The Picture-Savers (1935) 🇺🇸
Ned Sparks, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Armetta — Three merrymen of Hollywood who receive an ovation when they appear on the screen anywhere.
Mervyn LeRoy — “Let’s Make it a Good Scene” (1937) 🇺🇸
These words sum up the personal philosophy of Mervyn LeRoy, Warner Bros.’ premier director, who has to his credit such pictures as “Anthony Adverse,” “Five Star Final,” “Little Caesar,” and who just finished directing “Three Men on a Horse.”
Douglas Shearer — Ruling The Sound Waves (1937) 🇺🇸
Introduction of Douglas Shearer, Head of Sound Department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Tay Garnett — Far East Comes to Hollywood (1939) 🇺🇸
Director Tay Garnett traveled half way ‘round the world to film “Trade Winds”.
Sonja Henie — Skating To Stardom (1937) 🇺🇸
Sonja Henie, world champion ice-skater, makes her debut in Hollywood and tells her plans for the future.
A Practical Vision — As Expounded by George Cukor (1937) 🇺🇸
Director George Cukor suggests a training school for prospective actors that would early show whether the aspiring student really had talent and the persistence necessary for satisfactory development.
A Close Up of Michael Curtiz (1937) 🇺🇸
It would be difficult to catch the engaging Austrian accent of Michael Curtiz on paper. It would also be difficult to draw a word-picture of the man himself, but a few sentences will help to place his portrait in your mind.
Katharine Hepburn — A Little Bit Independent (1937) 🇺🇸
An independent Katharine Hepburn shows Hollywood how it's done.