Vintage Movie Resources

Grace Washburn in “World Film” (1915) 🇺🇸
January 03, 2026

Grace Washburn in “World Film” (1915) 🇺🇸

Grace Washburn is a beautiful girl of American Indian extraction

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Aces of the Camera — Rudolph Maté (1942) 🇺🇸
January 03, 2026

Aces of the Camera — Rudolph Maté (1942) 🇺🇸

Mild-mannered Rudolph Maté is as different as possible from the dashing extroverts fiction writers like to characterize as cameramen

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Lorena Layson (Lorena Mayer Jones) (1907–1985) | www.vintoz.com
January 03, 2026

Lorena Layson — The Booty of Beauty (1933) 🇺🇸

There is nothing illegitimate or frivolously vain in trying to be beautiful

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January 03, 2026

Douglas Gerrard (1915) 🇺🇸

Douglas Gerrard’s successes on the screen are many

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Sally Crute (Sally C. Kirby | Sallie Crute) (1886–1971) | www.vintoz.com
January 02, 2026

Sallie Crute (1915) 🇺🇸

Sallie Crute is “the Edison adventuress”

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Fannie Bourke (Fan Bourke | Fannie Burke) (1886–1959) | www.vintoz.com
January 02, 2026

Fan Bourke, Thanhouser Favorite (1915) 🇺🇸

Fan Bourke is that ideal rarity in the theatrical and motion picture circles, a good comedienne who can play heavy emotional parts as well

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Edith Ritchie (18??–1916) | www.vintoz.com
December 31, 2025

Edith Ritchie (1915) 🇺🇸

Edith Ritchie is a tall, very good looking woman with a charm of manner that is irresistible

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Stanley Cortez (Stanislaus Samuel Kranz/Krantz) (1908–1997) | www.vintoz.com
December 30, 2025

Aces of the Camera — Stanley Cortez (1942) 🇺🇸

Stanley Cortez fooled them all

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Ruth Hall — Florida’s Fairest (1933) 🇺🇸
December 30, 2025

Ruth Hall — Florida’s Fairest (1933) 🇺🇸

Ruth Hall’s favorite vocal exercise is a good football game. She usually comes away without her voice

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Margaret Prussing (1890-1944) | www.vintoz.com
December 28, 2025

Margaret Prussing (1915) 🇺🇸

Enthused still with all the direct and engaging spirit of the college girl, there is good reason to believe that Margaret Prussing will register well

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Irene Fenwick (Irene Frizell) (1887–1936) | www.vintoz.com
December 28, 2025

Irene Fenwick (1915) 🇺🇸

Irene Fenwick has appeared under five of the best-known managements on Broadway and has starred in several international productions

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Émile Chautard (1864–1934) | www.vintoz.com
December 28, 2025

Émile Chautard (1915) 🇺🇸

Émile Chautard is one of the best known French directors

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Norman Z. McLeod (Norman Zenos McLeod) (1898–1964) | www.vintoz.com
December 28, 2025

Norman Z. McLeod — This Business of Directing (1934) 🇺🇸

7th of a series of articles by and of the well known directors in the Hollywood studios

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Charles Hill Mailes (1870–1937) | www.vintoz.com
December 26, 2025

Charles Hill Mailes (1915) 🇺🇸

Charles Hill Mailes is recognized as one of the best all-around actors on the screen

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Farciot Edouart (Alexander Farciot Edouart) (1884–1980) | www.vintoz.com
December 26, 2025

Aces of the Camera — Farciot Edouart (1942) 🇺🇸

Special-process photographers, such as Farciot Edouart, seldom bask in the limelight of publicity

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Violet MacMillan (1887–1953) | www.vintoz.com
December 26, 2025

Violet MacMillan — Who’s Who (1914) 🇺🇸

Violet MacMillan (1887–1953)

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Fred J. Balshofer (1877–1969) | www.vintoz.com
December 26, 2025

Fred J. Balshofer — Who’s Who (1914) 🇺🇸

Fred J. Balshofer (1877–1969)

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Arthur C. Miller (Arthur Charles Miller) (1895–1970) | www.vintoz.com
December 25, 2025

Aces of the Camera — Arthur C. Miller (1942) 🇺🇸

Arthur C. Miller’s two absorbing interests are fine horseflesh and making pictures photographically

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George J. Folsey (George Joseph Folsey) (1898–1988) | www.vintoz.com
December 25, 2025

Aces of the Camera — George J. Folsey (1942) 🇺🇸

George J. Folsey is the perfect embodiment of the old axiom that “cinematographers are born, not made”

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Gloria Swanson (Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson) (1899–1983) | www.vintoz.com
December 25, 2025

Gloria Swanson — How I Choose My Costumes (1921) 🇺🇸

Meet two variants of Gloria Swanson — the tall, queenly person of the screen, and the petite, vivacious girl of real life

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Marion Davies (Marion Cecilia Douras) (1897–1961) | www.vintoz.com
December 25, 2025

Marion Davies — Beating the Cost of Clothes (1921) 🇺🇸

My mouth, usually, is stuffed with pins

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Betty Compson (Eleanor Luicime Compson) (1897–1974) | www.vintoz.com
December 25, 2025

Betty Compson — Emotion to Order (1921) 🇺🇸

Screen actors have a much harder job to be natural than their stage brothers

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Agnes Ayres (Agnes Henkel) (1892–1940) | www.vintoz.com
December 25, 2025

Agnes Ayres — Advice to Would-Be Stars (1921) 🇺🇸

Flashy clothes never got any girl into the movies

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Whitman Bennett (1883–1968) | www.vintoz.com
December 25, 2025

Whitman Bennett — Advice to Would-Be Stars (1921) 🇺🇸

A would-be director should not be afraid to unfurl his sail and visit the various ports of human experience

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