Vintage Movie Resources
Walter Connolly — Average, But Wonderful (1935) 🇺🇸
Walter Connolly, the man who makes bad pictures good and good ones better.
Will Rogers Talks About Pigs, Politics and Movies (1933) 🇺🇸
Nowadays, writers simply don’t interview Will Rogers. It’s so much better to catch him unawares.
Joan Crawford — Answers Twenty Pointed Questions (1933) 🇺🇸
Joan Crawford is the third star to cooperate with Movie Classic to give you a “cross-examination” interview.
Myrna Loy — Beautiful and Sinister (1932) 🇺🇸
Hollywood has coined a new word — “Loytering.” It means “looking beautiful and sinister at the same time.”
Anna Sten — Learning English (1932) 🇺🇸
Anna gave up her career as Soviet Russia’s most famous screen actress to start her screen life anew.
Sylvia Sidney — Busy Denying Rumors (1932) 🇺🇸
Sylvia can’t understand how people misunderstand her so — or how they have the heart to keep her so busy denying rumors.
Constance Bennett — Always Knitting (1932) 🇺🇸
Connie, the tease, is all but asking, “What do you THINK I’m going to do next?”
Genevieve Tobin — Vamping Maurice (1932) 🇺🇸
It’s funny how Genevieve Tobin fooled Hollywood. The folks always thought she was just a bit cool — and then she vamped Maurice Chevalier in One Hour with You.
Joan Marsh — Temporarily Idle (1932) 🇺🇸
Maybe to give the good old executives a scare, Joan is announcing that she’s on the fence between marriage and career.
Madge Evans — (Not) Dangerous, Sombre and Sirenish (1932) 🇺🇸
If she really did have the love-life that the gossip writers claim she does, says Madge, she would look like this — dangerous and sombre and sirenish.
Karen Morley — Aloof and Dreamy-Eyed (1932) 🇺🇸
Karen Morley’s poise isn’t a pose; she has always had it.
Cecelia Parker — The New Serial Queen (1932) 🇺🇸
Cecelia Parker took the hurdles for stardom so neatly in “The Jungle Mystery,” that the next serial on her active program, was just as easy as eating a piece of apple pie
Tala Birell — Hollywood’s Latest Viennese Sensation (1932) 🇺🇸
Tala Birell has poise and bearing and an exotic appeal — qualities which have placed her right in the front-line trenches of stardom.
Claudette Colbert — The Phantom President's Opposite (1932) 🇺🇸
Claudette isn’t a bit downcast by the fact that she was the girl chosen to play opposite the one and only Mr. Cohan in “The Phantom President.”
Ann Dvorak — Three (Films) on a Match (1932) 🇺🇸
Pert? And then some! Ann’s the kind of girl who can not only keep her chin up, but can tilt it at an angle.
Basil Rathbone — Once A Villain (1937) 🇺🇸
Basil has made people hate him so thoroughly they like him tremendously on the screen.
Wendy Barrie — Hongkong’s Contribution (1935) 🇺🇸
Hong Kong-born Wendy Barrie is a glorious madcap, and a welcome newcomer to pictures.
The Stars and Their Pet Superstitions — Knock on Hollywood (1936) 🇺🇸
Miriam Hopkins trusts in just a special kind of rabbit foot. It must be the left hind foot of a rabbit shot in a church-yard on a moonlit night.
The Star Creators of Hollywood — W. S. Van Dyke (1936) 🇺🇸
The third in a series of brilliant articles about the men responsible for the success or failure of a picture.
The Star Creators of Hollywood — John Ford (1936) 🇺🇸
The first of a series of brilliant articles about the men whose genius lifts pictures and personalities to fame — the directors.
The Star Creators of Hollywood — Frank Lloyd (1936) 🇺🇸
The second in a series of revealing articles on the masterminds behind pictures and personalities— the directors.
Men Behind the Stars — Mervyn LeRoy (1937) 🇺🇸
The variety of past contributions to the screen marks him with unequalled versatility of genius. He has coupled such hard-hitting drama as “Little Caesar” with the frivolities of a “Gold Diggers” extravaganza.
D. W. Griffith — The Star Maker Whose Dreams Turned to Dust (1934) 🇺🇸
He produced over four hundred films. Only a small part of profits these movies made ever found their way back to Griffith. When they did, he usually tossed the money, with reckless courage, into another picture.