Vintage Movie Resources

Cissy Fitzgerald (Mary Kate Kipping) (1873–1941) | www.vintoz.com
October 07, 2025

The Roll-Call of the Old Guard (1926) 🇺🇸

The heroes of other days are now character men. Great beauties are playing “bits.” And former boy prodigies are vainly seeking work in the studios

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Huntley Gordon (Huntley Ashworth Gordon) (1879–1956) | www.vintoz.com
May 31, 2025

Huntley Gordon — A Well-Dressed Man of Affairs (1924) 🇺🇸

Among Those Present — Brief sketches of some of the most interesting people in motion pictures

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May 27, 2025

Clara Horton — A Frank Admission (1925) 🇺🇸

Among Those Present — Brief sketches of some of the most interesting persons in pictures

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May 15, 2025

Claire McDowell — A Portrait of a Lady (1925) 🇺🇸

Among Those Present — Brief sketches of some of the most interesting people in pictures.

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The Confessions of an Interviewer (1924) | www.vintoz.com
December 01, 2024

The Confessions of an Interviewer (1924) 🇺🇸

If you would like to know the stars as the magazine and newspaper people come to know them, read these observations

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The Versatile Dorothy Devore (1925) | www.vintoz.com
October 17, 2024

The Versatile Dorothy Devore (1925) 🇺🇸

Audiences, so far, have caught only a glimpse of the range of emotion this player is capable of interpreting, thinks the interviewer.

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Jean Hersholt — An Artist of the Grotesque (1925) | www.vintoz.com
October 07, 2024

Jean Hersholt — An Artist of the Grotesque (1925) 🇺🇸

Among Those Present — Brief sketches of some of the most interesting people in pictures

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Creighton Hale— And How He Rose (1925) | www.vintoz.com
October 07, 2024

Creighton Hale — And How He Rose (1925) 🇺🇸

Among Those Present — Brief sketches of some of the most interesting people in pictures

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Georgia Hale | Stars at Auction (1928) | www.vintoz.com
August 27, 2024

Stars at Auction (1928) 🇺🇸

Believe it or not, actors in Hollywood are “sold” in a way to recall the old-time slave trade — but they don’t mind being bartered at all.

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Corinne Griffith — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 28, 2024

Corinne Griffith — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

In this, the second of a series of character studies of famous stars, Corinne Griffith is shown to possess certain unsuspected qualities, including a sense of humor.

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Vilma Banky — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 26, 2024

Vilma Banky — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

This analysis of Vilma Banky is both penetrating and sympathetic, while the character, as well as the pronounced individuality of the beautiful Hungarian, is carefully presented.

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Melbourne Spurr and Martha Barclay (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 14, 2024

Still Photographers — Magic in a Magic City (1925) 🇬🇧

Photographers play a large part in the lives of the movie stars. An artistic photograph is often responsible for the finding and making of a new film player.

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Alberta Vaughn — Mack Sennett Picks Another (1923) | www.vintoz.com
January 31, 2024

Alberta Vaughn — Mack Sennett Picks Another (1923) 🇺🇸

To be put under contract by the comedy king is as distinctive in its way as being featured by Griffith or De Mille. Therefore Alberta Vaughn merits your kind attention.

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Lois Weber— What Do Men Need? (1921) | www.vintoz.com
January 23, 2024

Lois Weber — What Do Men Need? (1921) 🇺🇸

Lois Weber has some very definite views on this subject, with some of which the producers do not agree.

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Pauline Frederick — Adventures in Emotion (1921) | www.vintoz.com
January 19, 2024

Pauline Frederick — Adventures in Emotion (1921) 🇺🇸

There is no more skillful emotional screen actress than Pauline Frederick: in this interview she tells how she feels when enacting the tense moments in her plays.

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Even the Athletes are Lured (1927) | www.vintoz.com
January 17, 2024

Even the Athletes are Lured (1927) 🇺🇸

In this day when absolutely every one is flocking into the movies — society belles, stage stars, royalty and circus performers — even the manly athletes, though much averse to powder puffs and grease paint, have succumbed to the lure of the screen. Witness Gene Tunney, Charley Paddock and “Red” Grange.

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Glorian Swanson — Gloria with Reservations (1921) | www.vintoz.com
January 14, 2024

Glorian Swanson — Gloria with Reservations (1921) 🇺🇸

Because she believes that the public should know only her screen personality.

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Priscilla Dean — Oh, Why Did They Name You Priscilla? (1924) | www.vintoz.com
September 05, 2023

Priscilla Dean — Oh, Why Did They Name You Priscilla? (1924) 🇺🇸

Patricia, or Carmelita, or Delphine would have fitted, but not that Puritanical cognomen

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Phyllis Haver — A Photoproof Pippin (1928) | www.vintoz.com
August 09, 2023

Phyllis Haver — A Photoproof Pippin (1928) 🇺🇸

Phyllis Haver sums herself up as “shanty Irish, born O’Hara, and hoping to get along,” but you will find there is more, much more, to be said of her, if you have not already said it yourself.

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Dorothy Revier — The Caviar of Poverty Row (1928) | www.vintoz.com
August 09, 2023

Dorothy Revier — The Caviar of Poverty Row (1928) 🇺🇸

She is Dorothy Revier, who is so easily the choicest possession of the independent companies that she is frequently borrowed by the big ones.

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What's Become of Them? (1929) | www.vintoz.com
June 08, 2023

What's Become of Them? (1929) 🇺🇸

Kenneth Harlan, Charles Ray, Bert Lytell, and Cullen Landis were once cream in the fans' coffee, but why do they enrich the screen no longer? The writer of this article sought them out for an answer and here you have his report of them as they are to-day.

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Alice Day | Lads and Lassies of Laughter (1926) | www.vintoz.com
February 20, 2023

Lads and Lassies of Laughter (1926) — Part I 🇺🇸

Part I: A full score of talented and optically pleasing young people smile and prance before your eyes on the screen, but you rarely read anything about them. Often you do not even know their names. Yet they are the players who make you laugh loudest, and you see them more often than your heroes and heroines of the drama, Meet your friends of the short comedies! | Move on to Part II

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February 11, 2023

Too Continental — Or What? (1930) 🇺🇸

Why is it that European charmers, beginning with Pola Negri and ending with Eva von Berne, have not endured with the fans? This article recalls many sad departures from these shores, with reasons advanced for this strange state of affairs.

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Alice White — Naughty Baby Quiets Down (1930) | www.vintoz.com
February 10, 2023

Alice White — Naughty Baby Quiets Down (1930) 🇺🇸

Alice White skipped gayly through life and films alike until she fell in love, and now she pauses to grasp a new realization of things.

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