Vintage Movie Resources

Jean Hersholt — How “Dutch” Became Mr. Hersholt (1927) | www.vintoz.com
December 18, 2023

Jean Hersholt — How “Dutch” Became Mr. Hersholt (1927) 🇺🇸

A cut-back to the day when the noted character actor, then an extra who could hardly speak English, first attracted attention to himself — and what followed.

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Conrad Veidt — A Welcome Invader from Germany (1927) | www.vintoz.com
December 18, 2023

Conrad Veidt — A Welcome Invader from Germany (1927) 🇺🇸

Hollywood not only makes possible the importation of one of Europe’s most accomplished actors, but unites a trio of famous friends.

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Clara Bow | If I Were a Man… | www.vintoz.com
December 17, 2023

If I Were a Man… (1927) 🇺🇸

Some of the girls of Hollywood tell what they would not do if they belonged to the opposite sex.

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George K. Arthur | If I Were a Woman… (1927) | www.vintoz.com
December 17, 2023

If I Were a Woman… (1927) 🇺🇸

And some of the men name the things that they would not do if they were women.

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William K. Howard — You Can't Keep a Good Man Down (1927) | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2023

William K. Howard — You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down (1927) 🇺🇸

When William K. Howard, commonly known as Bill, came back from the war and found his job gone, he saw red at first — then he decided to show ‘em! Which he has — with a megaphone. If you saw “Gigolo,” you know it.

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Carroll Nye — Unswept and Unsung (1929) 🇺🇸
December 15, 2023

Carroll Nye — Unswept and Unsung (1929) 🇺🇸

Carroll Nye is interviewed for the first time, although he has appeared in thirty-six pictures.

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Bodil Rosing — Ga-Ga Bodil (1929) | www.vintoz.com
December 13, 2023

Bodil Rosing — Ga-Ga Bodil (1929) 🇺🇸

Bodil Rosing’s granddaughter gave her a nickname that made Hollywood love the brilliant actress all the more.

 

 

Eternal Love

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Max Factor — A Wizard of Make-up (1929) | www.vintoz.com
December 12, 2023

Max Factor — A Wizard of Make-up (1929) 🇺🇸

Max Factor is consulted by all the stars, and has developed a new personality for some of them through expert make-up. In this article he discusses his work and tells how to enhance one’s best features.

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Ricardo Cortez — His Face Is His Misfortune (1929) | www.vintoz.com
December 11, 2023

Ricardo Cortez — His Face Is His Misfortune (1929) 🇺🇸

Doomed from the first to play sheiks, because he looked like the popular conception of one, Ricardo Cortez thinks that movies are another name for grief.

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Josephine Dunn — Dunn Days Are Rosy Now (1929) | www.vintoz.com
December 11, 2023

Josephine Dunn — Dunn Days Are Rosy Now (1929) 🇺🇸

Josephine Dunn’s bright beginning in the movies didn’t prevent her from going through a period of bad luck that would have broken a less valiant spirit than hers. But now — well, she’s rising and rising.

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Nicholas Soussanin (in the background) (with Gilbert Roland and Marion Shilling) | 1932 | www.vintoz.com
November 29, 2023

Butlers in Movies — “Very Well, Sir” (1929) 🇺🇸

More than fifty accomplished actors make a specialty of playing butlers in the movies.

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Thelma Todd — An Eye Full (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 27, 2023

Thelma Todd — An Eye Full (1929) 🇺🇸

Is the interviewer’s resume of beautiful Thelma Todd, erstwhile schoolmarm and now of Hollywood’s notables.

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Nils Asther — A Fish Out of Water (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 27, 2023

Nils Asther — A Fish Out of Water (1929) 🇺🇸

That describes Nils Asther, who doesn’t “belong” in the movie colony for reasons that cannot be disputed after you read what he says about it.

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Jack Mulhall — As He Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 25, 2023

Jack Mulhall — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸

If there is such a thing in this polyglot land as a hundred per cent American, Jack Mulhall is it.

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Ronald Colman — As He Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 25, 2023

Ronald Colman — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸

Careful consideration of Mr. Colman’s likes and dislikes reveals a character unique in Hollywood.

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George O’Brien — As He Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 23, 2023

George O’Brien — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸

Scrutiny of Mr. O’Brien’s qualities, personal and professional, reveals the exact ratio you would expect if you knew him only by his appearance on the screen.

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Barbara Kent — Six Steps to Success (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 23, 2023

Barbara Kent — Six Steps to Success (1929) 🇺🇸

One by one, they have led Barbara Kent from a prairie farm in Canada to the heroine of Harold Lloyd’s new picture.

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ZaSu Pitts — Loved at Last (1927) | www.vintoz.com
November 22, 2023

ZaSu Pitts — Loved at Last (1927) 🇺🇸

For nine years Zasu Pitts has been the neglected girl of the screen, the girl who has stood by and watched the more beautiful heroine walk off with the hero, but at last Zasu has got her man — in two successive pictures.

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William Collier Jr. — Up and Down with Buster (1927) | www.vintoz.com
November 22, 2023

William Collier Jr. — Up and Down with Buster (1927) 🇺🇸

Whether Buster Collier’s spirits are high on the wing, or touching the depths of depression, he is thoughtful, casual, and finds ideals where they are least expected.

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Phyllis Haver — A Credit to Kansas (1927) | www.vintoz.com
November 21, 2023

Phyllis Haver — A Credit to Kansas (1927) 🇺🇸

Phyllis Haver, once a bathing girl, now marches gayly in the front rank of comediennes, and there’s no telling where she’ll stop.

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Patsy Ruth Miller — Patsy Ruth Flares Up (1927) 🇺🇸
November 16, 2023

Patsy Ruth Miller — Patsy Ruth Flares Up (1927) 🇺🇸

Miss Miller launches a protest against the “blah” roles that have been her lot, and holds forth on the subject of hook rugs, her decision to become a director, and her eccentric cook.

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Marceline Day — Marceline Keeps Cool (1927) | www.vintoz.com
November 15, 2023

Marceline Day — Marceline Keeps Cool (1927) 🇺🇸

It takes more than success in the movies to thrill Marceline Day. Though she is rapidly mounting the stairs to fame, she takes it all quite coolly and looks upon her film career as merely a very pleasant job.

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Carole Lombard — Another Three Cheers! (1930) 🇺🇸
November 15, 2023

Carole Lombard — Another Three Cheers! (1930) 🇺🇸

Our Manhattan explorer discovers Carol Lombard, another beauty who is on her way up, equipped fully with all that it takes.

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Don Alvarado — Spanish — with English Reserve (1929) | www.vintoz.com
November 04, 2023

Don Alvarado — Spanish — with English Reserve (1929) 🇺🇸

Expecting to find a Latin youth determined to be romantic, the interviewer discovered Don Alvarado to be gently circumspect and disinclined to talk about himself.

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