Vintage Movie Resources
Texas Guinan — Guinan of the Guns (1919) 🇺🇸
Texas Guinan, having cut her teeth on a six-shooter, has quite naturally reverted to type.
J. Boyce Smith Jr. — Selecting for Better Pictures (1926) 🇺🇸
The problem which is fraught with the greatest difficulty and responsibility for the motion picture producer is that of selecting the material to be screened
Edward Sedgwick — Who is Responsible? (1926) 🇺🇸
Upon whom is to develop the responsibility for “better pictures”? Are better pictures a real issue? What is it all about anyway?
William Beaudine — Directorial Versatility (1926) 🇺🇸
Not all tears and not all smiles, but a sequence of joys and sorrows — that is life.
Richard Wallace — Who is Responsible? (1926) 🇺🇸
Five years from now, the pictures of today will seem as primitive as the pictures of 1921 appear to us today
Estelle Taylor — On the Set with John Barrymore (1926) 🇺🇸
John Barrymore, like many another man, drinks what he wants when he wants to
Adolph Zukor — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Adolph Zukor is referred to as the giant of the motion-picture business
Erich von Stroheim — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Erich von Stroheim goes against all directorial tradition in not wearing horn-rimmed glasses or using a megaphone
Maurice Tourneur — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Maurice Tourneur’s pictures are as distinctive as the man himself
Mack Sennett — Blue Book of the Scree (1923) 🇺🇸
Mack Sennett is king of burlesque and artisan of a high form of theatrics, equaled in his skill for nonsense by none
Victor Seastrom — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Coming to pictures as an actor and director in 1912, Victor Sjöström was given full leeway and entire responsibility for all the pictures he made
Arthur H. Sawyer — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Among the pioneers in the motion-picture industry is included the name of Arthur H. Sawyer
Fred Niblo — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
It is little wonder that Fred Niblo turned to the direction of motion pictures
Allen Holubar — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Allen Holubar is one of the screen’s foremost producers
Marshall Neilan — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Marshall Neilan now is director-in-chief for Samuel Goldwyn
Cecil B. De Mille — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Cecil B. DeMille can credit his success in part in the motion picture world to both heredity and environment
George Melford — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Among the “Who’s who” of film pioneer days, George Melford was emphatically one of the same
Carl Laemmle Sr. — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Carl Laemmle did not have fortune thrust upon him in a brief space of time
Jesse L. Lasky — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Jesse L. Lasky is undoubtedly one of the best informed motion picture executives in the world
Thomas H. Ince — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
One of the film folk who looked far into the future and foresaw great things for motion pictures, was Thomas H. Ince
Rex Ingram — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
A number of stars and directors have come into instant recognition with a single production after struggling along the film roadway for years. Rex Ingram was one of these
Rupert Hughes — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Rupert Hughes is the only eminent author who “began life all over again” in order to become a motion picture director
George Fitzmaurice — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Paris has supplied American film production with one of its best known directors, George Fitzmaurice