Vintage Movie Resources
Margaret Sullavan — Peg runs away! (1934) 🇺🇸
The lowdown on Margaret Sullavan's strange disappearance.
Chester Morris Defies Fame's Jinx (1934) 🇺🇸
Age and other bugaboos of the stars will never terrify Chester Morris if his unique plan works out!
Victor Jory — I'll Be Suing You! (1934) 🇺🇸
Victor Jory is introduced to that quaint Hollywood custom, suing stars.
Going to the Movies in Tahiti (1934) 🇺🇸
For real fun come with us on this visit to the movies in the romantic South Seas where all the entertainment for the movie-goer is not on the screen.
Life Can't Bluff Heather Angel! (1934) 🇺🇸
The fascinating story of Heather Angel who is soaring to fame in a career more exciting than a movie!
Muriel Kirkland — Without Beauty (1934) 🇺🇸
Muriel Kirkland was not blessed with beauty and she had an inferiority complex, but that did not stop her from climbing the golden stairs to screen fame.
Boris Karloff — Please Scare Us, Mr. Karloff! (1934) 🇺🇸
But Boris Karloff, screen monster, is not at all like Boris Karloff, private citizen!
Douglass Montgomery — I’m Sure He’s Nuts... and I Envy Him (1934) 🇺🇸
Douglass Montgomery may prove that all actors are crazy... but you'll agree it's a most appealing "divine insanity of genius".
Bit Players — You Know Their Faces But Not Their Names (1934) 🇬🇧
An overdue tribute to the unsung players who are the real backbone of the screen.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — George E. Stone — Out of Horror into Happiness (1934) 🇺🇸
You have seen him in half-a-hundred screen thrillers — but never in one which boasted a story more dramatic than that of his own life!
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Gilmor Brown — The Star-Maker of Hollywood (1934) 🇺🇸
Gilmor Brown — founder and directing head of the Pasadena Community Playhouse.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Elmer Dyer — Lens On Wings (1934) 🇺🇸
Elmer Dyer is a cameraman. He shot “Hell’s Angels” and “Dawn Patrol,” from the air.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — George Hurrell — He Acts While You Pose (1934) 🇺🇸
You have no doubt seen hundreds of Hurrell’s photographs in the rotogravures of magazines and Sunday supplements.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Billy Hill — He Wrote “The Last Roundup” (1934) 🇺🇸
You know him as composer of The Last Roundup, the song which has captivated continents.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Sally Rand — A Fan Made Her Famous (1934) 🇺🇸
Sally Rand, beauteous blond exponent of the fan dance whose nude terpsichory, save for a protective pair of feather fans, recently got her into plenty of legal difficulties in Chicago, New York and other key cities.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Murray Spivack — The Noisiest Man Alive (1934) 🇺🇸
Making a noise like a canary is a comparatively simple procedure; but when you tackle thirty-ton monsters of seven million years ago you can take it from me you’re delving into the realm of difficult bedlam!
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Bebe Daniels and Pauline Gallagher — They Run a Red, White and Blue Shop (1934) 🇺🇸
Careers for women? Not one, but two or three — with a home and children on the side — is the latest Hollywood custom.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Natalie Bucknell — From Secret Service to Studios (1934) 🇺🇸
Natalie Bucknell bosses the best research department in Hollywood — that of M-G-M. If they need to photograph a Swedish fire-plug, a mule cart in Barcelona, or the third left eyelash of the Venus de Milo, Natalie is the girl who tells them how to do it and supplies a photo and description of the actual object.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Howard Dietz — He Wanted a Two Weeks’ Job (1934) 🇺🇸
Howard Dietz — Supervisor of the advertising and publicity departments at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Walter Connolly — Home’s Where His Art Is! (1934) 🇺🇸
Hollywood or Broadway, it’s all the same to Walter Connolly if his roles are good.
D. W. Griffith — The Star Maker Whose Dreams Turned to Dust (1934) 🇺🇸
He produced over four hundred films. Only a small part of profits these movies made ever found their way back to Griffith. When they did, he usually tossed the money, with reckless courage, into another picture.
Behind the Scenes of “Alice in Wonderland” (1934) 🇺🇸
Come backstage into fairyland! Get the surprise of your life when you see “big names” delighted with bits!
Hollywood Teaches Hugh Walpole How to Write (1934) 🇺🇸
A great writer has come to Hollywood. For the screen, of course! The famous British novelist is shattering all studio precedents.
James Cagney and Allen Jenkins — Two “Toughs” from the Chorus (1934) 🇺🇸
They began — together — as chorus boys!