Vintage Movie Resources

Wallace Beery | www.vintoz.com
December 23, 2021

Wallace Beery — My Life Until Now — Part 2 (1934) 🇺🇸

The first authorized true life story from the man who has been the hero of one of the most remarkable careers in the films.

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Barbara Stanwyck | www.vintoz.com
December 23, 2021

Barbara Stanwyck in “The Bitter Tea of General Yen” (1932) 🇺🇸

Barbara Stanwyck has a will of her own and believes that marriage and career can be made to mix.

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Nils Asther | www.vintoz.com
December 23, 2021

Nils Asther in “The Bitter Tea of General Yen” (1932) 🇺🇸

Nils Asther was laid low by a Swedish accent when talkies came in

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Art of Photoengraving | www.vintoz.com
December 23, 2021

The Art of Photoengraving (1943) 🇺🇸

How illustrations are rendered into metal for printing. | Photoengraving may be described as a method of transforming pictures into metal for printing.

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Paul Muni | www.vintoz.com
December 22, 2021

Paul Muni — Great Actor — Great Hermit (1936) 🇺🇸

There’s a reason why Paul Muni takes you out of yourself with his acting. He lives as no other actor in Hollywood lives. This great story tells you how — and why.

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Katharine Hepburn | www.vintoz.com
December 22, 2021

This is Katharine Hepburn (1936) 🇺🇸

Here is a new and unusual slant on an unusual person — Katharine Hepburn. This is an interview with Muriel King, her latest designer.

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December 22, 2021

Charles Boyer — Master of Charm (1936) 🇺🇸

Women succumb to his charm, his powerful personality without being able to help themselves.

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Greta Garbo | www.vintoz.com
December 21, 2021

Will Garbo Marry Her Director, Rouben Mamoulian? (1934) 🇺🇸

Is Rouben Mamoulian the man she has been waiting for all these years? Has she found love at last? His father, who ought to know, thinks and the evidence bears him out!

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The Three Stooges | www.vintoz.com
December 21, 2021

What’s a Stooge? Ted Healy Tells You! (1934) 🇺🇸

Ted Healy had just finished a scene with Robert Montgomery in a picture when I cornered him. I had been hanging around some time, waiting to get the answer to “What is a stooge?”

Vintage ad with Spencer Tracy and Constance Cummings towards the end of this article.

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Boris Karloff | www.vintoz.com
December 21, 2021

Boris Karloff — Through Horror Came Happiness (1936) 🇺🇸

Boris Karloff, on the screen, lives in a world of horror — but his friends know him, off-screen as the most contented man in Hollywood.

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Lionel  Stander | www.vintoz.com
December 21, 2021

Lionel Stander — Meet The Stander-Outer (1936) 🇺🇸

A throw of the dice made Lionel Stander a stage personality — and ability has kept him at the top.

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John Huston, Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston | www.vintoz.com
December 21, 2021

On the Set with John Huston, Directing “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1947) 🇺🇸

John Huston walked slowly out of the Acapulca bar and pulled a cigarette tobacco pouch from the breast pocket of his wrinkled tweed jacket. Tall and lanky, dressed in unpressed slacks and a crushed felt hat, he looked like a youthful, gangling cowboy. His somewhat battered ex-fighter’s face wore a quietly serious expression.

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Rouben Mamoulian — What Do You Think of Color? (1935) | www.vintoz.com
December 21, 2021

Rouben Mamoulian — What Do You Think of Color? (1935) 🇺🇸

Movie director Rouben Mamoulian, director of Becky Sharp, the first major picture using Technicolor’s new color process, writes about the use of colours in movies.

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Leo McCarey and Charles Laughton | www.vintoz.com
December 20, 2021

Leo McCarey — He Directs for Laughs — and Gets ‘Em (1935) 🇺🇸

Leo McCarey, the rollicking, young Irishman who directed “Ruggles of Red Gap,” is described by Charles Laughton as “not only a great director, but the greatest comic mind now living.”

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Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Borzage, Cecil B. DeMille, Mervyn Le Roy | www.vintoz.com
December 20, 2021

Four Directors Tell What’s Wrong with the Movies (1933) 🇺🇸

Why aren’t there more movie hits ? That’s what Hollywood is asking. And Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Borzage, Cecil B. DeMille and Mervyn Le Roy — all makers of hits — are here to tell why. Listen in and hear some frank talk!

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Melvyn Douglas | www.vintoz.com
December 17, 2021

Melvyn Douglas — Famous Overnight (1932) 🇺🇸

Melvyn Douglas was a hit in his first appearance in pictures and he is steadily gaining in popularity.

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Irving Pichel | www.vintoz.com
December 17, 2021

Irving Pichel — Rebel! (1932) 🇺🇸

Irving Pichel, actor, director and author, turns his back on success in one profession to win in another.

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Frank Capra with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable | www.vintoz.com
December 17, 2021

They’re Capra-Crazy (1941) 🇺🇸

To Hollywood, Frank Capra represents the ultimate in directorial achievement, and there isn’t a player out there who wouldn’t be happy to work under his guiding genius.

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James Stewart | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

James Stewart — The Inside Story (1936) 🇬🇧

James Stewart is one of Hollywood’s big new bets. In the comparatively short time he has been on the screen, he has rattled off some first-rate performances which have sent him shooting up the popularity poll at a tremendous rate.

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Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill and Boris Karloff — Three Live Ghosts (1935) 🇺🇸

What of Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, and Boris Karloff, prime portrayers of horrific characters? What are they like, what do they think of their abnormal rôles, and what have been their experiences? This joint interview tells you all you want to know.

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James Cagney, Marlene Dietrich, Paul Muni, Adolphe Menjou | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Pie-Face (1932) 🇺🇸

Hilarious “Scarface” spoof from 1932

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Ernst Lubitsch (1935) | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Ernst Lubitsch — First Wit of the Films! (1935) 🇺🇸

Ernst Lubitsch is more colorful than the stars he directs! Vintage ads by Genevieve Tobin and Cary Grant (“Cheramy — It's the perfume I never can forget.”)

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Ernst Lubitsch — Portrait of a Director (1932) | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Ernst Lubitsch — Portrait of a Director (1932) 🇺🇸

On the Lubitsch set the most arresting and least important-looking person is a little man with a dark, merrily wicked face, a lank strand of black hair hanging over his right eye, a big cigar rolling restlessly from one side of his mouth to the other.

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Mitchell Leisen with Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Mitchell Leisen — Hollywood’s Most Colorful Director (1944) 🇺🇸

Meet Mitchell Leisen, who has bossed more famous women around than any other man in history and still retains a sense of humor.

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