Vintage Movie Resources

Leo McCarey and Charles Laughton | www.vintoz.com
December 20, 2021

Leo McCarey — He Directs for Laughs — and Gets ‘Em (1935) 🇺🇸

Leo McCarey, the rollicking, young Irishman who directed “Ruggles of Red Gap,” is described by Charles Laughton as “not only a great director, but the greatest comic mind now living.”

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Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Borzage, Cecil B. DeMille, Mervyn Le Roy | www.vintoz.com
December 20, 2021

Four Directors Tell What’s Wrong with the Movies (1933) 🇺🇸

Why aren’t there more movie hits ? That’s what Hollywood is asking. And Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Borzage, Cecil B. DeMille and Mervyn Le Roy — all makers of hits — are here to tell why. Listen in and hear some frank talk!

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Melvyn Douglas | www.vintoz.com
December 17, 2021

Melvyn Douglas — Famous Overnight (1932) 🇺🇸

Melvyn Douglas was a hit in his first appearance in pictures and he is steadily gaining in popularity.

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Irving Pichel | www.vintoz.com
December 17, 2021

Irving Pichel — Rebel! (1932) 🇺🇸

Irving Pichel, actor, director and author, turns his back on success in one profession to win in another.

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Frank Capra with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable | www.vintoz.com
December 17, 2021

They’re Capra-Crazy (1941) 🇺🇸

To Hollywood, Frank Capra represents the ultimate in directorial achievement, and there isn’t a player out there who wouldn’t be happy to work under his guiding genius.

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James Stewart | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

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.

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Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill and Boris Karloff — Three Live Ghosts (1935) 🇺🇸

What of Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, and Boris Karloff, prime portrayers of horrific characters? What are they like, what do they think of their abnormal rôles, and what have been their experiences? This joint interview tells you all you want to know.

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James Cagney, Marlene Dietrich, Paul Muni, Adolphe Menjou | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Pie-Face (1932) 🇺🇸

Hilarious “Scarface” spoof from 1932

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Ernst Lubitsch (1935) | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

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.”)

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Ernst Lubitsch — Portrait of a Director (1932) | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Ernst Lubitsch — Portrait of a Director (1932) 🇺🇸

On the Lubitsch set the most arresting and least important-looking person is a little man with a dark, merrily wicked face, a lank strand of black hair hanging over his right eye, a big cigar rolling restlessly from one side of his mouth to the other.

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Mitchell Leisen with Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Mitchell Leisen — Hollywood’s Most Colorful Director (1944) 🇺🇸

Meet Mitchell Leisen, who has bossed more famous women around than any other man in history and still retains a sense of humor.

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December 14, 2021

Warner Oland the Swede — A Chinaman Who Isn’t (1936) 🇬🇧

British author E. G. Cousins wrote this Warner Oland article in 1936. As always with texts from this period, persons with Asian ethnicity are referred to in rather a clichéd manner. We do believe that the text offers good insight and that it is worth to publish it.

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John Barrymore, Madge Evans, Lee Tracy | www.vintoz.com
December 14, 2021

If You Met Lee Tracy (1933) 🇺🇸

… It takes a darned good writer to do justice to Lee — to catch the change of mood, the swift pace of his deft mind, the many sides of his personality.

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Mischa Auer | www.vintoz.com
December 14, 2021

What Makes You So Funny, Mischa Auer? (1938) 🇺🇸

Here’s what happened when Mischa, who usually laughs off questions about himself, couldn’t duck some very personal queries.

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Spencer Tracy and Robert Barrat | www.vintoz.com
December 14, 2021

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.”

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William Powell and Myrna Loy | www.vintoz.com
December 14, 2021

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.

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December 13, 2021

Tribute to Ida Lupino (1940) 🇺🇸

Screenland Magazine pays tribute to upcoming actress and Luxables spokeswoman Ida Lupino.

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Charles Bickford | www.vintoz.com
December 13, 2021

Did You Know? (1932) 🇺🇸

Illustrator H. T. Elmo enlightens us about Hollywood star's capabilities and accomplishments.

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Charles Laughton and Carole Lombard | www.vintoz.com
December 13, 2021

Charles Laughton — Gentle Titan (1940) 🇺🇸

When Charles Laughton, mighty man of movie drama, talks out of turn, the result is a salty interview packed with dynamite, like this!

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Abbott and Costello | www.vintoz.com
December 13, 2021

Abbott and Costello — Nuts to You, Bud and Lou (1941) 🇺🇸

If you’re howling at Abbott and Costello — and who isn’t? — have another laugh with the boys right now, in the funniest interview ever given by these clowns in clover.

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Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn | www.vintoz.com
December 13, 2021

Errol Flynn Takes to Adventure (1936) 🇺🇸

One thrill after another, that’s Flynn’s story!

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Bette Davis and Leslie Howard | www.vintoz.com
December 10, 2021

Love Comes to Leslie and Bette in “The Petrified Forest” (1936) 🇺🇸

It’s a strange love story that brings together the stars of that widely discussed film, “Of Human Bondage.”

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James Gleason and Robert Armstrong | www.vintoz.com
December 09, 2021

Robert Armstrong — Yeah? Yeah! (1929) 🇺🇸

Robert Armstrong Speaks his Mind about Talking Pictures.

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Greta Peck and Gregory Peck | www.vintoz.com
December 09, 2021

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.

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