Vintage Movie Resources
Stuart Erwin — Not the Handsome Hero Type (1931) 🇺🇸
Not the handsome hero type so Stuart plays he’s dumb
Charles Farrell — Charlie’s Impression of the Right Kind and Wrong Kind of Girl (1931) 🇺🇸
“What type of girl do I admire?” echoed the popular Charles Farrell in response to the question.
What Becomes of Baby Stars? (1931) 🇺🇸
This year the Wampas pick thirteen more girls for potential stardom. They’ve picked one hundred and four girls in the past. Here’s the story of what happened to them all
Paul Cavanagh — The Strangest Reason of All (1931) 🇺🇸
Why Paul Cavanagh went into the movies makes a great story
Conchita Montenegro — She Thought She Had Failed (1931) 🇺🇸
Occasionally children like Conchita Montenegro come to Hollywood. Their advents, however, are infrequent.
Irene Dunne — Dunne Luck (1931) 🇺🇸
But it isn’t all luck — talent plays a large part in Irene Dunne’s success
Helen Chandler — The Rainy Thursday Girl (1931) 🇺🇸
Helen Chandler gets the best breaks on bad days. Let it rain!
Brian Aherne — The Discovery of the Month (1931) 🇺🇸
Is Hollywood overlooking a bet in Brian Aherne, Broadway’s combination of Gary Cooper and Ronald Colman?
Walter Huston — He Rôles His Own! (1931) 🇺🇸
“I’m an actor,” says Walter Huston — but he doesn’t ‘act’
Claire Luce — Hollywood’s ‘Gone’ on the Luce! (1931) 🇺🇸
Claire Luce, New York’s dancing daughter, makes the film’s Gold Coast Wake Up and Dream
New Men Wanted in Hollywood (1931) 🇺🇸
Where are all the new men to keep up with the new girls? Will some of the boys assembled here supply the demand? The Editor wants to know!
Richard Cromwell — The Discovery of Dick (1931) 🇺🇸
Another one of those Hollywood romances! Richard Cromwell, an unknown hero, shoots from obscurity to fame in three months
Barbara Stanwyck — Not a Pattern Girl (1931) 🇺🇸
Barbara Stanwyck was fired from her first job selling patterns, so she's never been a pattern girl since!
Phillips Holmes — Bachelor of Hearts (1931) 🇺🇸
Phil Holmes, the most sought-after young man in the movies, explains why a screen contract is the only kind he's signing, thank you!
Paul Lukas Is A Love Expert — That's Why Women Love Him (1931) 🇺🇸
Ever since Paul Lukas was a youngster in Budapest the fair sex has played a prominent part in his life. He has developed into one of the screen's greatest love experts — since he s young enough to offer excitement and old enough to offer experience
Cecil Beaton — Taking Beauty For a Ride (1931) 🇺🇸
Cecil Beaton, English photographer, doesn’t mind telling what our sirens lack.
Adolphe Menjou — He Refuses to be a Star (1931) 🇺🇸
Adolphe Menjou prefers less honor and fewer worries.
Buster Keaton — Family Man (1931) 🇺🇸
How Buster Keaton got into pictures:
Joseph Schenck: “Ever play in a movie, Buster?”
Buster Keaton: “Nope.”
Joseph Schenck: “We’re making a comedy with Fatty Arbuckle. Go down to the studio and play a bit in it, just to see if you like it.”
Buster Keaton: “Nope.”
Joseph Schenck: “We’re making a comedy with Fatty Arbuckle. Go down to the studio and play a bit in it, just to see if you like it.”