Vintage Movie Resources
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
Richard Wallace — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
There is at least a grave difference between an undertaker and a motion picture director
Harry Pollard — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Harry Pollard was once one of the most popular actor stars in motion pictures
William A. Seiter — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
William A. Seiter is recognized as one of the leading progressive picture directors
John M. Stahl — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
John M. Stahl, supervising production of the Tiffany-Stahl Production, stepped into the role of motion picture director as, what would be termed in baseball, a pinch hitter.
John S. Robertson — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
John S. Robertson, one of the leading directors of the screen industry, refused to be a screen villain, so he became a director.
Fred Niblo — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Motion picture stars are not the only ones to claim interesting backgrounds.
Carey Wilson — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Rarely in the history of the motion picture industry has a sales manager of one of the larger companies switched to scenario writer and producer and made a success of it.
Paul Leni — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Paul Leni was literally forced into becoming a director.
Robert F. Hill — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Twenty years ago, Robert F. Hill, now noted motion picture director, started on his professional career in the somewhat lowly capacity of dresser.
Frank Capra — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Frank Capra, motion picture director, got a good break when he returned from service in the army following the war.
Bruce Mitchell — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Bruce Mitchell, one of the foremost of the Universal directors, seems to have had a varied career before finally alighting in the midst of the Hollywood film industry
Doris Kenyon — A Woman Apart (1925) 🇬🇧
A baffling, intriguing creature, with those flying eyes that do so much heart damage. Doris Kenyon is a princess in a fairy tale, a proud princess with a frozen heart.
Georgia Hale — The Girl with the Broken Ankle (1925) 🇺🇸
The story of Georgia Hale who was willing to work for nothing
Monta Bell — He Got What He Wanted (1925) 🇺🇸
Monta Bell has directed only four pictures — but they’re fighting for his services
Carol Dempster — The Mystery Girl of Pictures (1925) 🇺🇸
They call Carol Dempster the mystery girl of pictures
Florence Reed — The Allure of the East (1921) 🇺🇸
Wherein a famous actress declares her belief that her career began thousands of years ago — “Somewhere East of Suez”
Helen Jerome Eddy — We’d Hate to Eat Her Biscuits! (1921) 🇺🇸
Helen Jerome Eddy, Ireland’s Mona Lisa, doesn’t like to cook. Bang goes another tradition!
Florence Vidor — Old Lives for New (1921) 🇺🇸
Florence Vidor demonstrates that the New Woman may do justice to both a home and a career.
Grace Cunard — Became a Photoplayer on a Dare (1916) 🇺🇸
It was in a spirit of fun that Grace Cunard joined the pictures.
Irene Dunne — Dunne Luck (1931) 🇺🇸
But it isn’t all luck — talent plays a large part in Irene Dunne’s success
