Vintage Movie Resources
Leo McCarey — He Directs for Laughs — and Gets ‘Em (1935) 🇺🇸
Four Directors Tell What’s Wrong with the Movies (1933) 🇺🇸
Melvyn Douglas — Famous Overnight (1932) 🇺🇸
Irving Pichel — Rebel! (1932) 🇺🇸
They’re Capra-Crazy (1941) 🇺🇸
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.
Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill and Boris Karloff — Three Live Ghosts (1935) 🇺🇸
Ernst Lubitsch — First Wit of the Films! (1935) 🇺🇸
Ernst Lubitsch is more colorful than the stars he directs! Vintage ads by Genevieve Tobin and Cary Grant (“Cheramy — It's the perfume I never can forget.”)
Ernst Lubitsch — Portrait of a Director (1932) 🇺🇸
Mitchell Leisen — Hollywood’s Most Colorful Director (1944) 🇺🇸
Warner Oland the Swede — A Chinaman Who Isn’t (1936) 🇬🇧
If You Met Lee Tracy (1933) 🇺🇸
What Makes You So Funny, Mischa Auer? (1938) 🇺🇸
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.”
The Great William Powell (1936) 🇺🇸
If you want to know why Thin Man Bill is a hero even to his movie wives, read this outrageously amusing interview. The interview also answers the question where James Bond got his martini recipe from.
Tribute to Ida Lupino (1940) 🇺🇸
Did You Know? (1932) 🇺🇸
Illustrator H. T. Elmo enlightens us about Hollywood star's capabilities and accomplishments.
Charles Laughton — Gentle Titan (1940) 🇺🇸
Abbott and Costello — Nuts to You, Bud and Lou (1941) 🇺🇸
Love Comes to Leslie and Bette in “The Petrified Forest” (1936) 🇺🇸
Robert Armstrong — Yeah? Yeah! (1929) 🇺🇸
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.
