Vintage Movie Resources

Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell | www.vintoz.com
December 09, 2021

No Way Out (1950) 🇺🇸

Here is a film so brave, and uncompromising, and emotionally racking, they’ll say it isn’t “entertainment.”

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Gregory Peck | www.vintoz.com
December 09, 2021

Introducing Gregory Peck (1944) 🇺🇸

For a gent who has been in Hollywood only a short time, Gregory Peck is doing all right.

The article is spiced with vintage ads of Lana Turner, Ann Sheridan and Joan Blondell.

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Shirley Temple and Cesar Romero | www.vintoz.com
December 09, 2021

With Shirley In Kipling’s India (1937) 🇺🇸

Little La Temple had the most fun of her full career while making Wee Willie Winkie.

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Hurricane | www.vintoz.com
December 08, 2021

Love in a Hurricane (1937) 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Hollywood is accustomed to storms. They bob up at the slightest provocation, or with none at all, and range from tempests in teapots to knock-em-down and drag-em-out affairs involving fisticuffs and front-page publicity.

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King Kong | www.vintoz.com
December 08, 2021

King Kong — “A Wonder in Celluloid” and “Miniature Effect Shots” (1933) 🇺🇸

That overworked word “colossal” for a movie is entirely applicable in this case. The story is fantastic, including prehistoric animals and strange tribes. The central figure is King Kong, a tremendous ape; so large that when Fay Wray is held in one of his huge paws she looks like a very tiny doll.

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George Sanders — Blood and Sanders (1943) | www.vintoz.com
December 08, 2021

George Sanders — Blood and Sanders (1943) 🇺🇸

George Sanders may be the only actor extant who can be called good, “bad,” and completely indifferent.

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King Kong | www.vintoz.com
December 08, 2021

“King Kong” — How Did They Make It? 🇺🇸

A look behind the filming of “King Kong”.

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Joseph Cotten | www.vintoz.com
December 08, 2021

Joseph Cotten — Cotten is Just a Guy Called Joe (1943) 🇺🇸

Why did Joseph Cotten play one of the leads in Citizen Kane, although he had other good offers? “You just don’t say ‘no’ to Orson,” Cotten explained simply. “He’d be beating tom-toms under your window if you did.”

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Douglass Montgomery | www.vintoz.com
December 08, 2021

How Hollywood Men Keep House (1934) 🇺🇸

Charlie Chaplin’s house is run almost like clockwork. But there was a time, I hear, when Charlie lived in one room and did his own housework when you might have called the place Racketty-Racketty House and got no argument even from Charlie.

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Greta Garbo | www.vintoz.com
December 08, 2021

Garbo’s Destiny (1934) 🇺🇸

What is to be the future of the glamorous Greta? Will she become immortalized as another Bernhardt, or another Duse? Here are some answers from stars who have worked in pictures with her. Do you agree?

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Jimmy Durante | www.vintoz.com
December 07, 2021

Jimmy Durante goes Loopy (1934) 🇺🇸

Jimmy Durante entertains us with his world views.

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George Raft | www.vintoz.com
December 07, 2021

George Raft Talks (1934) 🇺🇸

And here you have the answers to the questions all Hollywood wanted to ask about George Raft (in 1934, that is).

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Maureen O’Sullivan | www.vintoz.com
December 07, 2021

Maureen O’Sullivan — Forging Ahead (1935) 🇺🇸

With so many recent outstanding performances to her credit, no one can deny that Maureen O’Sullivan isn’t forging ahead as a popular player.

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Helen Mack | www.vintoz.com
December 07, 2021

Helen Mack — Pensive Mood (1935) 🇺🇸

Even in a pensive mood is Helen Mack appealing. Though only twenty-one, she is considered one of the screen’s most talented dramatic actresses.

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Greta Garbo | www.vintoz.com
December 07, 2021

Greta Garbo — Applause (1935) 🇺🇸

While all the world continues to discuss the possibility of Garbo returning to her native country, whether or not she is a great actress, just how interested she is in George Brent — we pause to reflect on her past performances and to applaud a successful career.

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Claudette Colbert | www.vintoz.com
December 07, 2021

“Cleopatra Was No Different!” says Cecil B. DeMille (1934) 🇺🇸

For over 2,000 years Cleopatra has had a reputation she doesn’t deserve. Movie director Cecil B. DeMille sets the record straight for her.

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Margaret Sullavan | www.vintoz.com
December 06, 2021

Margaret Sullavan — Giving Life to the Little “Bunny” (1934) 🇺🇸

“Only Yesterday” introduced her. Only today, she is a nation-wide sensation. Only tomorrow, to what heights may she attain? Her followers harbor no doubts as to the answer.

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Joan Crawford | www.vintoz.com
December 06, 2021

Joan Crawford — Chained between Otto and Clark (1934) 🇺🇸

In “Chained”, Joan Crawford takes a long sea voyage to forget a married man.

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Dolores del Río | www.vintoz.com
December 06, 2021

Dolores del Río — No More Spanish Charmers (1934) 🇺🇸

Have you considered Dolores a type, doomed forever to play Spanish charmers with the aid of fan and mantilla? Wrong again — and the producers knew it.

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Maurice Chevalier | www.vintoz.com
December 06, 2021

Maurice Chevalier — Wooing the Merry Widow (1934) 🇺🇸

Rebellion against repeated roles won Maurice Chevalier a chance to portray Prince Danilo in The Merry Widow.

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Ronald Colman | www.vintoz.com
December 06, 2021

Ronald Colman — Bulldog Drummond (1934) 🇺🇸

Ronald Colman will present a new series of adventures playing the part of his most famous screen character, Captain Hugh Drummond.

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Constance Bennett | www.vintoz.com
December 06, 2021

Constance Bennett — Three Diverse Personalities (1934) 🇺🇸

Costumed thus for her part in 20th Century’s “The Affairs of Cellini,” Constance Bennett causes one to wonder why Cellini’s loves were plural.

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Gloria Swanson (Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson) (1899–1983) | www.vintoz.com
December 06, 2021

Gloria Swanson — Lending Radiance (1934) 🇺🇸

Gloria Swanson is a permanent personality in the fluctuating turmoil of Hollywood, where ingénues are seen today and gone tomorrow

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Ralph Bellamy | www.vintoz.com
December 06, 2021

Ralph Bellamy — Too Nice to be a Villain (1934) 🇺🇸

Ralph Bellamy has played heroes and villains and believable combinations of both. But they gave him no more villainous roles because he gained too much sympathy and that would never do in this circumspect world of ours.

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