Vintage Movie Resources
Blore, Simpson, Treacher — Butlers Are Only Skin Deep (1936) 🇺🇸
Three famous screen gentlemen’s “gentlemen” Eric Blore, Ivan Simpson and Arthur Treacher, reveal their real selves.
Joel McCrea — Joel and the Glamor Girls (1936) 🇺🇸
The producers first took an active interest in the Joel McCrea case when they discovered that he was a pretty kisser.
Victor McLaglen — From Bagdad to Beverly Hills (1936) 🇺🇸
The exciting real-life adventures of Victor McLaglen, told at last.
Fred Astaire — Ten Lives — All Secret! (1936) 🇺🇸
Fred Astaire has been reading others’ views of his ‘”secret” life and decides to set forth a few ideas of his own on the subject.
El Brendel — Yust a Fearless Feller (1930) 🇺🇸
Meet El Brendel, the comedian with the riotous Swedish dialect which did not come to him by inheritance. For his father was born in Bavaria and his mother is Irish.
Peter Lorre — Monarch of Menace (1936) 🇺🇸
Peter Lorre tells how a mere accident made him famous as the screen’s craftiest “bad man”.
Sparks, Horton, Armetta — The Picture-Savers (1935) 🇺🇸
Ned Sparks, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Armetta — Three merrymen of Hollywood who receive an ovation when they appear on the screen anywhere.
Michael Curtiz Spent Ten Years Directing Super-Specials (1927) 🇺🇸
Early American interview with Michael Curtiz.
Mervyn LeRoy — “Let’s Make it a Good Scene” (1937) 🇺🇸
These words sum up the personal philosophy of Mervyn LeRoy, Warner Bros.’ premier director, who has to his credit such pictures as “Anthony Adverse,” “Five Star Final,” “Little Caesar,” and who just finished directing “Three Men on a Horse.”
Douglas Shearer — Ruling The Sound Waves (1937) 🇺🇸
Introduction of Douglas Shearer, Head of Sound Department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Tay Garnett — Far East Comes to Hollywood (1939) 🇺🇸
Director Tay Garnett traveled half way ‘round the world to film “Trade Winds”.
Sonja Henie — Skating To Stardom (1937) 🇺🇸
Sonja Henie, world champion ice-skater, makes her debut in Hollywood and tells her plans for the future.
A Practical Vision — As Expounded by George Cukor (1937) 🇺🇸
Director George Cukor suggests a training school for prospective actors that would early show whether the aspiring student really had talent and the persistence necessary for satisfactory development.
A Close Up of Michael Curtiz (1937) 🇺🇸
It would be difficult to catch the engaging Austrian accent of Michael Curtiz on paper. It would also be difficult to draw a word-picture of the man himself, but a few sentences will help to place his portrait in your mind.
Katharine Hepburn — A Little Bit Independent (1937) 🇺🇸
An independent Katharine Hepburn shows Hollywood how it's done.
Jack Pierce — Speeding Father Time (1937) 🇺🇸
Jack Pierce, make-up artist for Universal Studios, can age a character twenty years in three hours by the use of expertly-applied make-up.
Paul Widlicska — The Studio Magician (1937) 🇺🇸
Paul Widlicska creates rain, snow, hail and fog at a moment’s notice.
Keye Luke — Son of China (1942) 🇺🇸
Keye Luke may be the screen’s foremost Chinese actor, but he considers himself 100% American. A commercial artist before he ever saw a movie set, he entered pictures via the art department.
An Interview with Paul Muni and Luise Rainer (1937) 🇺🇸
On the set of The Good Earth with Paul Muni and Luise Rainer and director Sidney Franklin.
Richard Boleslawski — The Way of a Lancer in Pictures (1937) 🇺🇸
Director Richard Boleslawski on the set of the Technicolor production “The Garden of Allah”.
Norman Taurog — He Was a Kid Himself! (1932) 🇺🇸
And he hasn’t forgotten it. That’s why Norman Taurog has achieved such wonders in directing child actors.
The Headline Career of Jean Harlow 1927-1932 (1932) 🇺🇸
Read the life story of Jean Harlow, as told in the headlines and see if you are not amazed that so much could have happened to one girl in such a short span of years.
Charlie Ruggles — He was “Ruggles of Red-Eye” (1931) 🇺🇸
Does the screen public want its favorites to be versatile? Charlie Ruggles is going to find out. For the past two years he has played nothing but “drunk” roles. Now, in his first starring picture, “Girl Habit,” he doesn’t take a single drink.