Vintage Movie Resources

A calm analysis of the screen world's latest mechanical discovery.

Provided you think that cow-punching, bronco-busting, and taming belligerent Mexicans is simple! Not to mention dare-devil movie stunts. But it all seems simple to Buck Jones, and that's the life he loves.

"I think that love and marriage are here to stay, atomic bomb or not!"

As TV’s China Smith, Dan Duryea enjoys his vacation from villainy.

Cary Grant | Ethel Barrymore | Barry Fitzgerald | June Duprez | Jane Wyatt | George Coulouris | Dan Duryea | Roman Bohnen | Konstantin Shayne | Marie de Becker | Clifford Odets

It was a small picture house in Glendale. In the crowded lobby hung a huge lithograph announcing the evening’s comedy. Beside it stood the manager of the theatre in deep conversation with a boyish looking, blue-eyed chap. A ragged newsboy rounded the corner and emitted a shrill Whoopee! at sight of the lithograph. For a minute or two he studied it in ecstasy, then he tugged at the young fellows coat. “Hey, mister, who are you?” he demanded, curiously.

Part II: The second contingent of young people who appear in short film comedies, and about whom you have read little, are here brought to your attention. | Go back to Part I

Part I: A full score of talented and optically pleasing young people smile and prance before your eyes on the screen, but you rarely read anything about them. Often you do not even know their names. Yet they are the players who make you laugh loudest, and you see them more often than your heroes and heroines of the drama, Meet your friends of the short comedies! | Move on to Part II