Vintage Movie Resources
Robert Wiene — Obituary (1938) 🇬🇧
An exclusive account of the life of the man who made “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”
Edgar Kennedy — “Who’s Got Fundamentals Any More?” (1938) 🇬🇧
“Who’s got fundamentals any more?” asks ‘Slow-burn’ Edgar Kennedy
Don Terry — Actor by Accident (1938) 🇺🇸
He wanted to be a heavy-weight fighter, bat chance took a hand.
Glenda Farrell — How to Win Enemies (1938) 🇺🇸
Glenda Farrell, hard at work on the problem of how to influence practically no one, relates her struggles with some of the social hazards of Hollywood.
Fay Bainter — Home to Hollywood (1938) 🇺🇸
After a brilliant career on the stage, a native daughter once more calls Hollywood "home" for a while.
Future Favorites — Lynne Carver (1938) 🇺🇸
A soft Southern accent, beautiful auburn hair, and a singing voice that leaves her auditors amazed, are the weapons with which pretty Lynne Carver, daughter of a Kentucky mining engineer, crashed the citadel of Hollywood...
Luise Rainer — I Haven't Even Started Yet! (1938) 🇺🇸
Luise (“doesn’t give a dime”) Rainer believes she’ll be starting soon the things she wants to do— show ‘em she can act
George Burns and Gracie Allen — The Private Life of Burns and Allen (1938) 🇺🇸
Here's the serious side of George and Gracie — without benefit of gags. Since they married 12 years ago, theirs has been one of the love stories of show business
Ritz Brothers — Love a la Ritz (1938) 🇺🇸
The Ritz Brothers — Jimmy, Harry and Al — may gag their way through life, but take marriage straight
Future Favorites — Ernest Truex (1938) 🇺🇸
Ernest Truex, pint-sized comedian who has starred in scores of New York and London stage productions, during the past 20 years, has quit the theatre
Ann Miller — Ballet Skirt and Slippers (1938) 🇺🇸
Ann Miller got her break with taps as Ginger Rogers' dancing partner...
Ray Bolger — Rubber Legs (1938) 🇺🇸
They call Ray Bolger “Rubber Legs” because he goes bouncing all over the place when the music starts. Some dancer!
Harpo Marx — How To Take Bad News (1938) 🇺🇸
Harpo Marx took time out from his work in "Room Service" to show how to behave at the Races.
Great Movie Villains — Hisssss (1938) 🇺🇸
If you want to make history, there are two routes open to you: become a great hero or a great villain.
Future Favorites — Rose Stradner (1938) 🇺🇸
Rose Stradner, latest Hollywood importation from the European stage, is one of the few people from Austria who, without making the effort, has been able to retain the charm and gaiety of Vienna in her attitude and speech.
Future Favorites — Maurice Black (1938) 🇺🇸
Ten years ago Maurice (Blackie) Black was a red-nosed comic in Raymond Hitchcock’s Hitchy Koo revues and laying ‘em in the aisles according to the boys and girls who wrote rave pieces about this Broadway hit show...
Men Behind the Stars — Roy Del Ruth (1938) 🇺🇸
Despite the fact that he is only 42 years old, Del Ruth has been identified with the picture business for more than two decades, having made his start as a scenarist for Mack Sennett in 1915, graduating to directorship three years later.
Men Behind the Stars — Frank Lloyd (1938) 🇺🇸
Long identified in Hollywood for the scope and sweep of his pictures, Lloyd won the directorial award for “Divine Lady” and again for “Cavalcade.”
Men Behind the Stars — Gregory La Cava (1938) 🇺🇸
La Cava was a pioneer in animated cartoons and drew some of the first Mutt and Jeffs. He wrote and directed some early Johnny Hines comedies so successfully that he became a Paramount director in 1920, first directing W. C. Fields.
Men Behind the Stars — Wesley Ruggles (1938) 🇺🇸
Today, chieftains of the motion picture industry look upon Ruggles as a “super-showman.” He is one of the very few Hollywoodians rating the dual title of producer-director!
Men Behind the Stars — William Wyler (1938) 🇺🇸
A vacation was responsible for William Wyler entering the movies, and eventually becoming one of the top rank directors.
Lana Turner — She Won In A Walk (1938) 🇺🇸
All that pretty, seventeen-year-old Lana Turner had to do to convince Producer Mervyn LeRoy out at Warner Brothers Studios that she was top-notch movie star material was to “walk right in, turn around, and walk right out again.”
How to Behave On Christmas (1938) 🇺🇸
Here are some helpful hints which, if carefully observed, will carry you safely through the social emergencies of the holiday season.
Anna May Wong (黃柳霜) — East Meets West (1938) 🇺🇸
Anna May Wong, back on the screen after an absence of several years, discusses her native land.