Vintage Movie Resources
Behind the Scenes of “Alice in Wonderland” (1934) 🇺🇸
Buster Keaton — Family Man (1931) 🇺🇸
Buster Keaton: “Nope.”
Joseph Schenck: “We’re making a comedy with Fatty Arbuckle. Go down to the studio and play a bit in it, just to see if you like it.”
Behind the Scenes with Woody, Joan, Clark and Bob (1935) 🇺🇸
Ned Sparks — The Man from Dead Pan Alley (1935) 🇺🇸
Life Begins at 50 (1935) 🇺🇸
Is it too late to attempt a career at 50? Of course not. These troupers prove it isn't: Mrs Patrick Campbell, Henrietta Crosman, W. C. Fields, Guy Kibbee, May Robson, Alison Skipworth, Sir Guy Standing, Helen Westley.
C. Aubrey Smith — Three Score Years and Ten (1935) 🇺🇸
Blore, Simpson, Treacher — Butlers Are Only Skin Deep (1936) 🇺🇸
Frank Morgan — House of Morgan (1936) 🇺🇸
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.
Spencer Tracy Speaks His Mind (1935) 🇺🇸
“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.”
Gregory Peck — North to Frisco (1948) 🇺🇸
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.
No Way Out (1950) 🇺🇸
Merle Oberon — Play Your Hunches (1936) 🇺🇸
Norma Shearer — Juliet's Screen Reincarnation (1936) 🇺🇸
Charlie Chaplin, The Serious Funny Man (1936) 🇺🇸
Hugh Herbert — Hughie, the Stall Guy... (1936) 🇺🇸
Hugh Herbert was a stalwart of 1930s movies, providing comic relief in hundreds of movies. Here is one of the rare articles that focused on him.
Note: The Joe Lim episode towards the end of the article is quite representative on how stereotypically Asians were portrayed in the media in the 1930s.
Veronica Lake — Nothing To Hide (1941) 🇺🇸
Audrey Hepburn — Most Exciting Star of 1953 🇺🇸
When Hollywood got its first look at Audrey Hepburn on the screen, in Roman Holiday, the press was left without suitable adjectives. She is truly great, but the critics who saw the press preview agreed it was going to be difficult to convince the public that Miss Hepburn is that magnificent.
Don’t Marry a Marx Brother! (1935) 🇺🇸
Jean Harlow — Toiling Tilly (1935) 🇺🇸
Johnny Weissmuller — Tarzan Escapes (1935) 🇺🇸
Katharine Hepburn — Tops Again (1935) 🇺🇸
After Katharine Hepburn’s tender, sympathetic portrayal of poor silly, pathetic Alice Adams, she can snatch back that seat on the top of the Hollywood heap.