Vintage Movie Resources
Keystone Cops — Back On The Beat Again (1931) 🇺🇸
The Keystone Cops had a re-union in Hollywood the other day, making the two-reeler “Stout Hearts and Willing Hands.”
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.
Charlie Ruggles — He was “Ruggles of Red-Eye” (1931) 🇺🇸
Does the screen public want its favorites to be versatile? Charlie Ruggles is going to find out. For the past two years he has played nothing but “drunk” roles. Now, in his first starring picture, “Girl Habit,” he doesn’t take a single drink.
Joan Crawford — “Get Hot, Joan, Get Hot” (1931) 🇺🇸
M-G-M has decided that Joan must be sexed up, and this is the first movement in the campaign.
Sessue Hayakawa and Anna May Wong Return to the Screen (1931) 🇺🇸
Sessue Hayakawa and Anna May Wong have been away from American movies for several years — winning stage triumphs in New York and European capitals. They’ve now returned to Hollywood to win back screen honors.
Note: This text was published in 1931 and some readers might find some of the Asian stereotyping offensive.
Barbara Stanwyck — She has Hollywood’s Number (1931) 🇺🇸
Here's a moody piece on Barbara Stanwyck from around the time she made the pre-code classics “Baby Face” and “The Bitter Tea of General Yen”
William Powell Weds Carole Lombard (1931) 🇺🇸
Famous Man of The World Tires of Bachelor’s Freedom — Bill and Bride Plan Quiet Life — Happy Couple Honeymooning In Hawaii by Joan Standish So Bill Powell’s married...!”
Edward G. Robinson — His Middle Name is not “Gangster” (1931) 🇺🇸
By superb acting — by seeming to be each character he plays — he has made it difficult for most people to visualize the real Edward G. Robinson.
James Cagney — Mild-Mannered Public Enemy (1931) 🇺🇸
Tough? James Cagney looked it in The Public Enemy
What They Are Really Like — The Marx Brothers (1931) 🇺🇸
At some point in late 1930/early 1931, the guys from Modern Screen Magazine drove out to Great Neck, Long Island, to find out who The Marx Brothers really were.