Vintage Movie Resources
William Geery (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — When William Geery was a student, he swept and cleaned college buildings at night, to earn his way through school. He sang as he swept because he was afraid when working alone in the darkened halls.
Judy Garland (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Judy Garland was born with the theatre in her veins.
Reginald Gardiner (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The fact that his home is his wardrobe trunk couples neatly with the information that Reginald Gardiner delighted in boyhood in trying on old clothes that he unearthed in the attic.
Betty Furness (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Betty Furness has not only risen to screen fame, but is acknowledged as one of the pace-setters in women’s fashions.
Vivien Fay (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Vivien Fay has been dancing since she can remember, and at no time during a long, sometimes tedious and always exacting apprenticeship, can she recall a time when she would have been happy doing anything else.
Cliff Edwards (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Even in the days when he associated Hawaii only with canned pineapples, Cliff Edwards played the ukelele. His first really big song hit was “Japanese Sandman.”
Buddy Ebsen (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — When Buddy Ebsen was thirteen years old, he gave up dancing lessons because he thought they were “sissified.”
Louis Durst (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Following in the path that was broken by Robert Taylor, Louis Durst abandoned a medical career to star in motion pictures,.
Melvyn Douglas (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — His parents wanted him to study law. He wanted to be a poet. So he compromised by becoming an actor.
Henry Daniell (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — A veteran of the World War in the service of the British Army, a world-traveler and gay trouper, Henry Daniell gathered his experience for the stage from life and brought it to the screen.
Alan Curtis (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — When illustrators and commercial artists were seeking two-fisted masculine punch for advertisements, they called on Alan Curtis.
Boyd Crawford (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Boyd Crawford, handsome juvenile, is a product of a college stage.
Roger Converse (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Each summer he spent on extensive vacations, touring Europe after completing his freshman year at the university. He visited England, France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, by train and automobile.
June Clayworth (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — June Clayworth took the hard road to success.
Jean Chatburn (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Jean Chatburn was a delicate child and, as a result, had to spend much of her time outdoors.
Lynne Carver (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Lynne Carver can tell no Cinderella story. Hers has been a hard, up-hill fight.
Bruce Cabot (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Bruce Cabot has chased the rainbow of adventure over two continents, to find the pot of gold at its end as a Hollywood motion picture actor.
John Beal (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — John Beal made his debut for the screen in 1933 in “Another Language” at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Billie Burke (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Thorough knowledge of the oil of pantomime, learned from her father, who was a famous circus clown, was the foundation upon which Billie Burke built her outstanding dramatic reputation.
Virginia Bruce (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Music has been the dominant factor in life of lovely Virginia Bruce.
Fanny Brice (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — During the fishing season, she leaves Hollywood for camps in the mountains.
Ariane Borg (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Her favorite color is blue and her favorite dish is caviar.
Ray Bolger (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Ray Bolger started out to conquer the world with a clean-up campaign.
