Vintage Movie Resources
Love in a Hurricane (1937) 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Hollywood is accustomed to storms. They bob up at the slightest provocation, or with none at all, and range from tempests in teapots to knock-em-down and drag-em-out affairs involving fisticuffs and front-page publicity.
King Kong — “A Wonder in Celluloid” and “Miniature Effect Shots” (1933) 🇺🇸
How Hollywood Men Keep House (1934) 🇺🇸
Garbo’s Destiny (1934) 🇺🇸
George Raft Talks (1934) 🇺🇸
Maureen O’Sullivan — Forging Ahead (1935) 🇺🇸
Helen Mack — Pensive Mood (1935) 🇺🇸
Greta Garbo — Applause (1935) 🇺🇸
“Cleopatra Was No Different!” says Cecil B. DeMille (1934) 🇺🇸
For over 2,000 years Cleopatra has had a reputation she doesn’t deserve. Movie director Cecil B. DeMille sets the record straight for her.
Margaret Sullavan — Giving Life to the Little “Bunny” (1934) 🇺🇸
Joan Crawford — Chained between Otto and Clark (1934) 🇺🇸
Dolores del Río — No More Spanish Charmers (1934) 🇺🇸
Maurice Chevalier — Wooing the Merry Widow (1934) 🇺🇸
Rebellion against repeated roles won Maurice Chevalier a chance to portray Prince Danilo in The Merry Widow.
Constance Bennett — Three Diverse Personalities (1934) 🇺🇸
Gloria Swanson — Lending Radiance (1934) 🇺🇸
Ralph Bellamy — Too Nice to be a Villain (1934) 🇺🇸
Merle Oberon — Play Your Hunches (1936) 🇺🇸
Norma Shearer — Juliet's Screen Reincarnation (1936) 🇺🇸
Charlie Chaplin, The Serious Funny Man (1936) 🇺🇸
The Real Mae West — Part A (1934) 🇺🇸
Mae West's — blonde, bold, bad and buxom — first bit part in a movie set the theme for her future career:
The scene showed her checking in at a swanky night club. The check girl admired her jewels.
“Goodness,” she exclaimed, “what beautiful diamonds!”
“Goodness,” retorted Mae West, “had nothing to do with them, dearie.”
John Wayne — Oh, for a Hair Cut! (1930) 🇺🇸
Hugh Herbert — Hughie, the Stall Guy... (1936) 🇺🇸
Hugh Herbert was a stalwart of 1930s movies, providing comic relief in hundreds of movies. Here is one of the rare articles that focused on him.
Note: The Joe Lim episode towards the end of the article is quite representative on how stereotypically Asians were portrayed in the media in the 1930s.
