Vintage Movie Resources
Harold Lloyd — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Harold Lloyd became associated with Hal Roach, and started making several hundred of the now famous Lonesome Luke comedies
Douglas MacLean — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Douglas MacLean tried a little bit of several things before he decided eventually on the acting profession as a career.
Tom Tyler — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Tom Tyler had more than his share of hardships before winning success as a motion picture actor
The Duncan Sisters — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
It was at Tait’s Restaurant in San Francisco that Rosetta and Vivian Duncan got their start professionally
Glenn Tryon — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
After plodding along for three years making two-reelers for Hal Roach, Glenn Tryon became an over night sensation
Hoot Gibson — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Hoot Gibson, Universal’s celebrated portrayer of Western rôles
Allene Ray — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Without ever having had a day’s experience, either in pictures or on the stage, Allene Ray sprang overnight into a leading lady on the screen.
Buddy Roosevelt — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Despite his ability in the saddle, Buddy Roosevelt found it hard to get work in Hollywood
María Corda — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
María Corda will be as well known to motion picture fans of the United States as that of any of the leading stars
Lucien Prival — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Lucien Prival was born in New York City, but he started his film career in Germany
Jean Hersholt — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
The Panama Pacific International Exposition was indirectly responsible for the advent in America of Jean Hersholt, now generally recognized as one of the few character actors in the motion picture industry
Evelyn Brent — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Evelyn Brent became discouraged with and left motion pictures three times before she attained a great success
Harrison Ford — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Kansas City lost a good shoe clerk and the stage and screen gained a better leading man when Ford was discovered in a Kansas City shoe store
Lya De Putti — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Though both stage and screen have provided many exciting incidents in the lives of actresses, it is doubtful if any one of them has had a career so full of varied thrilling incidents as Lya de Putti
Betty Bronson — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Betty Bronson’s advent to motion pictures was not just the pure streak of luck to which some people have attributed it
Barbara Worth — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Barbara Worth broke into the movies as a leading lady, and rarely has played anything but a leading rôle since
Frank Tuttle — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Frank Tuttle, Paramount director, laid the foundation for his picture work while a student at Yale University
Sam Wood — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Sam Wood has had much more success prospecting for motion picture stars than he had with the opening of the Reno gold rush around 1900.
Monta Bell — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Monta Bell’s first experience with pictures came in 1922, when Charles Chaplin made him assistant director at the Chaplin Studios
Edwin Carewe — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
There is little about the motion picture industry’s production end Edwin Carewe is not familiar with
Ernst Lubitsch — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Ernst Lubitsch might now be a good clothing salesman in Berlin if his father had had his way
Raoul Walsh — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Raoul Walsh is probably proud to recount the days when he sailed the seven seas as an able seaman or when he rode the range as a Texas cowboy
Albert Rogell — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Albert Rogell is a go-getter and his indomitable will to succeed has brought him success
Herman C. Raymaker — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Herman C. Raymaker was born and raised in sunny California and has spent practically all of his life there