Vintage Movie Resources
J. Walter Ruben (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — He started modestly by writing fiction for magazines and enjoyed an exceptional degree of success from the first.
Edward Ludwig (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Probably Hollywood’s most-traveled director is Edward Ludwig
Reinhold Schünzel (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — On a walk in a park in a European city, a little boy used to stand and watch the Punch and Judy show presented daily for the children.
Edwin L. Marin (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — By adopting a method peculiarly his own, Edwin L. Marin became a successful director without serving an apprenticeship.
Gustav Machatý (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Fifteen years ago, on his first Hollywood adventure, Gustav Machatý trained and attended a studio comedy lion known as Humpy.
Robert Z. Leonard (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — A graduate of the musical comedy stage, Robert Z. Leonard has an enviable record of directorial hits, both silent and talking.
Sidney Franklin (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — A sun tan was the reason for Sidney Franklin becoming a director.
Victor Fleming (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Victor Fleming has the amazing record of being associated with the picture business more than twenty-five years, and more than half of that time as an “ace” director.
Charles Dorian (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The How-I-Made-Good-In-Hollywood-Club has never been successful in enlisting Charley Dorian as a member.
Clarence Brown (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Two degrees in engineering and a successful automobile business lacked the power to keep Clarence Brown out of the theater as one of its major craftsmen.
Edward Buzzell (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Eddie Buzzell, as a boy in high school, discovered that he had mannerisms that made people laugh. So he gave up the idea of becoming an engineer and set about becoming a comedian.
Frank Borzage (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Watching Frank Borzage direct a picture, the novice is likely to believe that it is easy work.
George Fitzmaurice (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — George Fitzmaurice received his education in private schools and academies in Paris, where he was born on February 13.
George Cukor (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Although he knew absolutely nothing about theatrical technique, George Cukor answered a newspaper ad for an assistant stage manager for the Chicago company of The Better ‘Ole, and sold himself.
Jack Conway (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — As an actor on the stage and screen, Jack Conway served a profitable apprenticeship to become one of Hollywood’s highly successful directors.
Dorothy Arzner (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The only woman director in motion pictures, Dorothy Arzner, under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, first aspired to a medical career.
C. Aubrey Smith — Three Score Years and Ten (1935) 🇺🇸
C. Aubrey Smith looks back on a full and dramatic life.
Anna May Wong (黃柳霜) — East Meets West (1938) 🇺🇸
Anna May Wong, back on the screen after an absence of several years, discusses her native land.
Myrna Loy — Working Girl (1934) 🇺🇸
Exotic Myrna Loy keeps a sane head on those pretty shoulders.
Fernand Gravet — Parisian Playboy (1938) 🇺🇸
Something about a young man who takes his play as well as his work seriously.
Allen Jenkins — Dead-Pan Wow (1934) 🇺🇸
Allen Jenkins is the rising master of comedy who doesn’t hesitate to steal a scene from the best of them. And he doesn’t hand out dignified interviews.
Nat Pendleton — He Was Smart to Play Dumb (1936) 🇺🇸
I’d expected a hard-boiled mug you wouldn’t want to meet on a dark night; a “deeze, dem, and dose” conversationalist, and a guy who couldn’t count to twelve except on a pair of dice.
Hugh Herbert — Picture Stealer No. 1 (1936) 🇺🇸
So he took the somewhat less than 50,000 dollars and the three lines of dialogue — and this is what he did with them.