Vintage Movie Resources

‘Canned’ laughter — yes or no?

Gertrude Hoffman (1871–1968) had a pretty miserable first year in Hollywood in 1933

One of the favorite occupational pastimes of the inveterate theater-goer is turning to the person in the next seat and remarking of two performers on stage: “Actually, you know, they hate each other like poison.”

James Daly (1918–1978) has bowed off a filmed-abroad adventure series for juicier acting plums nearer home

When Nicholas Ray came to Hollywood in 1947, he brought with him years of experience in radio, television

Irving Rapper finds himself quite at ease directing the real greats of both stage and screen

You Bet Your Life has all the spontaneity of a Swiss watch, it represents the finest manufactured spontaneity television has yet known.

For me, Alan Mowbray will always be Tommy Gray, the friend of Old Bostonian Godfrey Park (aka Godfrey, The Forgotten Man) in Gregory La Cava's timeless comedy “My Man Godfrey”. Mowbray did, however, star in several hundred more movies and TV shows.

Dick Powell takes time out of his busy schedule to bring Philip Marlowe, Private Eye, back to life