Vintage Movie Resources

“Me,” said Spencer Tracy, “I pay for what I get. I also get what I pay for. Every sorrow in my life has had its corresponding joy. Every loss has had its profit. My life, like everybody else’s, I guess, is a matter of debit and credit.”

If you want to know why Thin Man Bill is a hero even to his movie wives, read this outrageously amusing interview. The interview also answers the question where James Bond got his martini recipe from.

Illustrator H. T. Elmo enlightens us about Hollywood star's capabilities and accomplishments.

As 1947 drew to a close, Gregory Peck grew a black beard, donned the frock coat Clark Gable wore in “Gone With The Wind”, and set about driving Laraine Day crazy in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Seattle, and Los Angeles. Greg was good at it, and Laraine went out of her mind prettily, to the applause of packed houses.

For a gent who has been in Hollywood only a short time, Gregory Peck is doing all right.

The article is spiced with vintage ads of Lana Turner, Ann Sheridan and Joan Blondell.

Hollywood is accustomed to storms. They bob up at the slightest provocation, or with none at all, and range from tempests in teapots to knock-em-down and drag-em-out affairs involving fisticuffs and front-page publicity.

Why did Joseph Cotten play one of the leads in Citizen Kane, although he had other good offers? “You just don’t say ‘no’ to Orson,” Cotten explained simply. “He’d be beating tom-toms under your window if you did.”