Vintage Movie Resources
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!
Allen Jenkins — Dead-Pan Wow (1934) 🇺🇸
Allen Jenkins is the rising master of comedy who doesn’t hesitate to steal a scene from the best of them. And he doesn’t hand out dignified interviews.
Wesley Ruggles — His Third Time On Top (1934) 🇺🇸
Director, Keystone Cop, Comedian — Wesley Ruggles explains survival in Hollywood.
Wallace Beery — My Life Until Now — Part 2 (1934) 🇺🇸
The first authorized true life story from the man who has been the hero of one of the most remarkable careers in the films.
Will Garbo Marry Her Director, Rouben Mamoulian? (1934) 🇺🇸
Is Rouben Mamoulian the man she has been waiting for all these years? Has she found love at last? His father, who ought to know, thinks and the evidence bears him out!
What’s a Stooge? Ted Healy Tells You! (1934) 🇺🇸
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.
How Hollywood Men Keep House (1934) 🇺🇸
Charlie Chaplin’s house is run almost like clockwork. But there was a time, I hear, when Charlie lived in one room and did his own housework when you might have called the place Racketty-Racketty House and got no argument even from Charlie.
Garbo’s Destiny (1934) 🇺🇸
What is to be the future of the glamorous Greta? Will she become immortalized as another Bernhardt, or another Duse? Here are some answers from stars who have worked in pictures with her. Do you agree?
George Raft Talks (1934) 🇺🇸
And here you have the answers to the questions all Hollywood wanted to ask about George Raft (in 1934, that is).