Vintage Movie Resources
Behind the Scenes of “Alice in Wonderland” (1934) 🇺🇸
Come backstage into fairyland! Get the surprise of your life when you see “big names” delighted with bits!
Buster Keaton — Family Man (1931) 🇺🇸
How Buster Keaton got into pictures:
Joseph Schenck: “Ever play in a movie, Buster?”
Buster Keaton: “Nope.”
Joseph Schenck: “We’re making a comedy with Fatty Arbuckle. Go down to the studio and play a bit in it, just to see if you like it.”
Buster Keaton: “Nope.”
Joseph Schenck: “We’re making a comedy with Fatty Arbuckle. Go down to the studio and play a bit in it, just to see if you like it.”
Lewis Milestone — That Boy from Odessa (1932) 🇺🇸
Lewis Milestone was born in Russia and he has worked his way up from raincoat maker at $4 a week to the forefront of motion picture direction.
Behind the Scenes with Woody, Joan, Clark and Bob (1935) 🇺🇸
Three famous stars and an equally famous director worked together in “Forsaking All Others!” How did they get along, or did they?
Hollywood Teaches Hugh Walpole How to Write (1934) 🇺🇸
A great writer has come to Hollywood. For the screen, of course! The famous British novelist is shattering all studio precedents.
Ned Sparks — How to Act Without Moving a Muscle (1938) 🇺🇸
Emotional Ned Sparks gives aspiring actors some hints on how to be a successful actor and still save wear and tear. Today: The emotions Rage, Passion, Joy, Gratification, Defiance.
Ned Sparks — The Man from Dead Pan Alley (1935) 🇺🇸
Ned Sparks, professional grouch, tells on himself.
Franklin Pangborn — Singing Lesson (1939) 🇺🇸
Franklin Pangborn is a man of many talents. Besides being featured in “Topper Takes a Trip” he finds time for cultural pursuits.
Ray Milland — The Lost Weekend (1945) 🇺🇸
Ray Milland didn’t enjoy making “The Lost Weekend.” No one would have; no one with any sensitivity, that is.
Keystone Cops — Back On The Beat Again (1931) 🇺🇸
The Keystone Cops had a re-union in Hollywood the other day, making the two-reeler “Stout Hearts and Willing Hands.”
W. S. Van Dyke — Hollywood’s Most Versatile Director (1935) 🇺🇸
“Let Van Dyke do it!” is now more or less accepted as a slogan at the studio where he is under contract.
James Cagney and Allen Jenkins — Two “Toughs” from the Chorus (1934) 🇺🇸
They began — together — as chorus boys!
Eskimo — The Story of “Igloo” (1932) 🇺🇸
The actual account of the filming of a grim drama in the Far North.
Leon Errol — The Fatal Errol (1938) 🇺🇸
Even though he is the star of a series of RKO-Radio short comedies, Leon Errol has human weaknesses like the rest of us.
Lana Turner — She Won In A Walk (1938) 🇺🇸
All that pretty, seventeen-year-old Lana Turner had to do to convince Producer Mervyn LeRoy out at Warner Brothers Studios that she was top-notch movie star material was to “walk right in, turn around, and walk right out again.”
“Spankings Soothe The Soul” Says Bette Davis (1938) 🇺🇸
“Oh, go jump in the lake!’ shrieked Bette, “I probably had a childhood far more happy than the average, but I wouldn’t go through that again for anything on earth!”
How to Behave On Christmas (1938) 🇺🇸
Here are some helpful hints which, if carefully observed, will carry you safely through the social emergencies of the holiday season.
Edward Arnold’s 10 Rules for Romance (1936) 🇺🇸
The amazing difference between Edward Arnold’s marriage and most Hollywood marriages was shown to us by a little thing that happened the last time we visited Eddie’s white hilltop home in Beverly Hills.
Sir Guy Standing — “I’m Sixty — But What of It?” (1936) 🇺🇸
Sixty? If at sixty I can have half the joy and savour out of life that Sir Guy Standing culls each day I shall count myself the luckiest man he knows.
Carole Lombard — Lombard Unlimited! (1929) 🇺🇸
“How old are you?” Cecil B. DeMille asked. “Fourteen,” replied Carol. “Go home and grow up. Then come back and see me,” said C.B. “Yes, Mr. DeMille,” said Carol, unconscious of the fact that her answer was to go down in history as one of the by-words of the great motion picture industry.
John Wayne, Richard Cromwell, Lewis Ayres — 3 Boys Who Won (1932) 🇺🇸
John Wayne, Richard Cromwell and Lewis Ayres all had a tough time getting their first screen opportunities.
Kay Francis — Working Girl (1932) 🇺🇸
Broadway knew Kay Francis as a girl who lived for a laugh but Hollywood has transformed her.
The Mystery of William Powell — Part II (1932) 🇺🇸
How the popular actor gained his dramatic training, how he won the help of Leo Dietrichstein and how he came to motion pictures.