Vintage Movie Resources
Cliff Edwards (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Even in the days when he associated Hawaii only with canned pineapples, Cliff Edwards played the ukelele. His first really big song hit was “Japanese Sandman.”
Buddy Ebsen (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — When Buddy Ebsen was thirteen years old, he gave up dancing lessons because he thought they were “sissified.”
Louis Durst (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Following in the path that was broken by Robert Taylor, Louis Durst abandoned a medical career to star in motion pictures,.
Melvyn Douglas (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — His parents wanted him to study law. He wanted to be a poet. So he compromised by becoming an actor.
Henry Daniell (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — A veteran of the World War in the service of the British Army, a world-traveler and gay trouper, Henry Daniell gathered his experience for the stage from life and brought it to the screen.
Alan Curtis (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — When illustrators and commercial artists were seeking two-fisted masculine punch for advertisements, they called on Alan Curtis.
Boyd Crawford (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Boyd Crawford, handsome juvenile, is a product of a college stage.
Roger Converse (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Each summer he spent on extensive vacations, touring Europe after completing his freshman year at the university. He visited England, France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, by train and automobile.
June Clayworth (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — June Clayworth took the hard road to success.
Jean Chatburn (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Jean Chatburn was a delicate child and, as a result, had to spend much of her time outdoors.
Lynne Carver (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Lynne Carver can tell no Cinderella story. Hers has been a hard, up-hill fight.
Bruce Cabot (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Bruce Cabot has chased the rainbow of adventure over two continents, to find the pot of gold at its end as a Hollywood motion picture actor.
John Beal (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — John Beal made his debut for the screen in 1933 in “Another Language” at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Billie Burke (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Thorough knowledge of the oil of pantomime, learned from her father, who was a famous circus clown, was the foundation upon which Billie Burke built her outstanding dramatic reputation.
Virginia Bruce (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Music has been the dominant factor in life of lovely Virginia Bruce.
Fanny Brice (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — During the fishing season, she leaves Hollywood for camps in the mountains.
Ariane Borg (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Her favorite color is blue and her favorite dish is caviar.
Ray Bolger (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Ray Bolger started out to conquer the world with a clean-up campaign.
Marie Blake (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — When Marie Blake was eight years old, and making her first appearance in vaudeville, she saw a nice-looking little red-haired boy in the first row.
Robert Benchley (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Author, playwright, actor, columnist, critic and commentator, Robert Benchley is one of life’s little oddities.
Elizabeth Allan (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Probably it was the nearness of the ocean that instilled in her the desire to travel to foreign lands which has never been satiated.
Janet Beecher (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Janet Beecher, famous character actress of Broadway and Hollywood, bears the name of one of the most famous families in American history.
W. S. Van Dyke (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Although he has been a miner, lumberman and newspaper reporter, W. S. Van Dyke has been connected with the stage and screen almost since his birth.
William Thiele (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Possessing an uncanny talent for discovering and developing actors and actresses, William Thiele is both writer and director.