Vintage Movie Resources

Frank Morgan insists he wouldn’t be where he is today if it weren’t for his wife, Alma. And I insist Alma Morgan wouldn’t be where she is today if it weren’t for Frank. Actually we’re both right. And that’s my story.

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.

“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.”

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.

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.

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.