Vintage Movie Resources
What Kind of a Fellow Is — Zukor? (1917) 🇺🇸
“Adolph Zukor, when will the stars’ salaries be reduced?”
What Kind of a Fellow Is — Rowland? (1917) 🇺🇸
“More bull,” said Richard A. Rowland tersely. “If you took down my exact words you couldn’t print them. You know that.”
What Kind of a Fellow Is — Abrams? (1917) 🇺🇸
“The film business? Well, that’s a big subject — too big to talk about. Let’s go to lunch and talk Portland”
Creators of Lasky Photography (1916) 🇺🇸
Movie pioneers behind the camera: 3 cinematographers and 1 lab technician
John McDermott, Director, Universal (1916) 🇺🇸
Tired of business life, John McDermott entered the dramatic field, using motion pictures as his medium
Alfred A. Cohn — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Alfred A. Cohn got his first touch of motion picture work as associate editor of Photoplay Magazine in 1915
George H. Plympton — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
George H. Plympton is what might be termed a writing veteran of the film industry
Edward J. Montagne — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Edward J. Montagne probably has a record that has rarely if ever been equaled, and he has never taken the trouble to claim it
Joseph Franklin Poland — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Joseph Franklin Poland sold his first story to a moving picture company when he was still a freshman at Columbia University
Leon d’Usseau — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Perseverance and the keenest desire to learn every phase of his business is what landed Leon d’Usseau near the top of his profession
Elizabeth Pickett — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Elizabeth Pickett took a peculiar course to the screen as a profession
Bess Meredyth — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Bess Meredyth is credited with a large number of leading screen successes.
Al Boasberg — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Becoming a successful author is difficult for any one, and is usually attained only after a lot of hard knocks. Al Boasberg took the knocks and plodded on.
Howard J. Green — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
One of the most meteoric rises in the screen-writing ranks is that of Howard J. Green
Josephine Lovett — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Josephine Lovett, scenarist, has a long string of successes to her credit
Finis Fox — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
There are few screen writers qualified to handle as wide a range of screen subjects as is Finis Fox
Winifred Dunn — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Winifred Dunn was seized with the urge to reform the world via the screen
C. Graham Baker — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
C. Graham Baker was told that the film industry was in need of stories. Baker wrote five comedies, sent them in and collected his check.
Richard Dix — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Richard Dix, one of the most virile actors on the screen, did not become a doctor only because he couldn’t stand the sight of blood.
Sally Rand — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Plunging head first into a swimming pool, Sally Rand made her screen debut
Colleen Moore — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Colleen Moore made her first assault on the film citadel at the old Essanay studio in Chicago
Harry Langdon — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Harry Langdon came honestly by that wistful look he employs so successfully on the screen