Vintage Movie Resources
Future Favorites — Evalyn Knapp (1936) 🇺🇸
Evalyn Knapp has become a favorite because she has personality, appeal and talent.
Future Favorites — Jane Wyatt (1936) 🇺🇸
Jane Wyatt has become a favorite because she represents a type that is fast becoming popular in Hollywood.
Nigel Bruce — The Actor’s Promised Land (1936) 🇬🇧
It’s fashionable to be superior about Hollywood, but here’s one screen player who likes the life in the film city and doesn’t care who knows it.
Scissor Craft — How Lotte Reiniger Makes Silhouette Films (1936) 🇺🇸
For Lotte Reiniger’s silhouette film, Prince Achmet, a quarter of a million separate photographs were taken.
The Stars and Their Pet Superstitions — Knock on Hollywood (1936) 🇺🇸
Miriam Hopkins trusts in just a special kind of rabbit foot. It must be the left hind foot of a rabbit shot in a church-yard on a moonlit night.
The Star Creators of Hollywood — W. S. Van Dyke (1936) 🇺🇸
The third in a series of brilliant articles about the men responsible for the success or failure of a picture.
The Star Creators of Hollywood — John Ford (1936) 🇺🇸
The first of a series of brilliant articles about the men whose genius lifts pictures and personalities to fame — the directors.
The Star Creators of Hollywood — Frank Lloyd (1936) 🇺🇸
The second in a series of revealing articles on the masterminds behind pictures and personalities— the directors.
Men Behind the Stars — Clarence Brown (1936) 🇺🇸
Clarence Brown’s career is unique. Educated at the University of Tennessee, from which he was graduated with degrees as an electrical and a mechanical engineer, he did not immediately interest himself in motion pictures.
Men Behind the Stars — Mark Sandrich (1936) 🇺🇸
“Go West, Young Man, Go West!” Mark Sandrich was going to school, Columbia University in New York, when he heard it — he heeded — and that’s a success story. | Mona Barrie and Binnie Barnes are peddling Tuna Salad Barrie and Admiration Costume Hosiery next to this interview.
Men Behind the Stars — John Ford (1936) 🇺🇸
A galloping horse hurled John Ford out of the acting end of the motion picture business and landed him in a director’s chair, where he came up from directing lowly westerns to winning International fame for his marvelous directorial talents and the Academy Award with “The Informer.”
Men Behind the Stars — Mervyn LeRoy (1936) 🇺🇸
Mervyn LeRoy, director of Warners’ coming big film, “Anthony Adverse,” started his motion picture career as an assistant cameraman at the FBO studios, which have since been absorbed by RKO.
Men Behind the Stars — King Vidor (1936) 🇺🇸
A second-hand Ford landed King Vidor and his wife, Florence, in San Francisco with twenty cents in their pockets.
Men Behind the Stars — Frank Capra (1936) 🇺🇸
The spectacular and award-winning production of 1934, “It Happened One Night,” was directed by a Hollywood genius — Frank Capra.
Men Behind the Stars — George Cukor (1936) 🇺🇸
A young man, filled with tremendous force and vitality, but still ranked as one of the most patient and considerate of Hollywood’s cinema-makers, this director makes no secret of his preference for the screen over the so-called “legitimate” stage.
Men Behind the Stars — W. S. Van Dyke (1936) 🇺🇸
W. S. Van Dyke has made a great name for himself as the creator of adventure romances.
Edward Arnold’s 10 Rules for Romance (1936) 🇺🇸
The amazing difference between Edward Arnold’s marriage and most Hollywood marriages was shown to us by a little thing that happened the last time we visited Eddie’s white hilltop home in Beverly Hills.
Sir Guy Standing — “I’m Sixty — But What of It?” (1936) 🇺🇸
Sixty? If at sixty I can have half the joy and savour out of life that Sir Guy Standing culls each day I shall count myself the luckiest man he knows.
Nat Pendleton — He Was Smart to Play Dumb (1936) 🇺🇸
I’d expected a hard-boiled mug you wouldn’t want to meet on a dark night; a “deeze, dem, and dose” conversationalist, and a guy who couldn’t count to twelve except on a pair of dice.
Hugh Herbert — Picture Stealer No. 1 (1936) 🇺🇸
So he took the somewhat less than 50,000 dollars and the three lines of dialogue — and this is what he did with them.
Blore, Simpson, Treacher — Butlers Are Only Skin Deep (1936) 🇺🇸
Three famous screen gentlemen’s “gentlemen” Eric Blore, Ivan Simpson and Arthur Treacher, reveal their real selves.
Joel McCrea — Joel and the Glamor Girls (1936) 🇺🇸
The producers first took an active interest in the Joel McCrea case when they discovered that he was a pretty kisser.
Victor McLaglen — From Bagdad to Beverly Hills (1936) 🇺🇸
The exciting real-life adventures of Victor McLaglen, told at last.
Peter Lorre — Monarch of Menace (1936) 🇺🇸
Peter Lorre tells how a mere accident made him famous as the screen’s craftiest “bad man”.