Vintage Movie Resources

Ted Healy had just finished a scene with Robert Montgomery in a picture when I cornered him. I had been hanging around some time, waiting to get the answer to “What is a stooge?”

Vintage ad with Spencer Tracy and Constance Cummings towards the end of this article.

Movie director Rouben Mamoulian, director of Becky Sharp, the first major picture using Technicolor’s new color process, writes about the use of colours in movies.

James Stewart is one of Hollywood’s big new bets. In the comparatively short time he has been on the screen, he has rattled off some first-rate performances which have sent him shooting up the popularity poll at a tremendous rate.

Ernst Lubitsch is more colorful than the stars he directs! Vintage ads by Genevieve Tobin and Cary Grant (“Cheramy — It's the perfume I never can forget.”)

“Me,” said Spencer Tracy, “I pay for what I get. I also get what I pay for. Every sorrow in my life has had its corresponding joy. Every loss has had its profit. My life, like everybody else’s, I guess, is a matter of debit and credit.”

If you want to know why Thin Man Bill is a hero even to his movie wives, read this outrageously amusing interview. The interview also answers the question where James Bond got his martini recipe from.

Illustrator H. T. Elmo enlightens us about Hollywood star's capabilities and accomplishments.