Vintage Movie Resources
Future Favorites — James Ellison (1937) 🇺🇸
James Ellison is one of the few western stars to leave those ranks for leads in top-rating feature productions.
Future Favorites — John King (1937) 🇺🇸
Ben Bernie and Zeppo Marx are responsible for this young man’s start in the theatrical world...
Future Favorites — Patric Knowles (1937) 🇺🇸
Being one of Hollywood’s young actors who is more than a 4-to-1 bet to reach the top rung of movieland’s ladder of fame isn’t enough for Patric Knowles...
Future Favorites — Barbara Roberts (1937) 🇺🇸
Resuming a career that was interrupted four years ago when she fell in love, blonde Barbara Roberts today is on her way to celluloid fame.
Future Favorites — Melville Cooper (1937) 🇺🇸
Melville Cooper faced obscurity when a studio gave him only eighteen lines to speak in two years.
Future Favorites — William Lundigan (1937) 🇺🇸
Instead of going to the movies he made them come to him. Instead of hammering at the gates of casting-offices he projected his voice and personality over the radio.
Future Favorites — Rose Stradner (1938) 🇺🇸
Rose Stradner, latest Hollywood importation from the European stage, is one of the few people from Austria who, without making the effort, has been able to retain the charm and gaiety of Vienna in her attitude and speech.
Future Favorites — Rita Johnson (1937) 🇺🇸
Rita Johnson’s high-school dramatic coach told her that she would never become an actress.
Future Favorites — Maurice Black (1938) 🇺🇸
Ten years ago Maurice (Blackie) Black was a red-nosed comic in Raymond Hitchcock’s Hitchy Koo revues and laying ‘em in the aisles according to the boys and girls who wrote rave pieces about this Broadway hit show...
Bob Hope — Where There’s Life There’s Hope (1935) 🇺🇸
Bob Hope is hailed as radio’s comedy discovery of 1936.
Clarence Muse — Singer of His People (1932) 🇺🇸
Clarence Muse, famed singer and actor, from the 1920s onwards.
In the 1930's, African Americans were not widely featured in the mainstream press, and we believe that this piece provides interesting insights.
Note: This text was published in 1932 and some readers might find some of the writing offensive.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy — The Seriousness of Being Funny in Four Languages (1930) 🇺🇸
Amusing piece in from the days before movies were dubbed into other languages. Comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy struggle to make French, Spanish and German versions of “Brats.”
Girls from the “Follies” Who’ve Made Good on the Screen (1932) 🇺🇸
Did you know that nearly a hundred of the Ziegfeld Follies' girls have made good on the screen?
Stories About the Notables of Films — Rise of Victor Schertzinger as Director Covers Ten Years Unmarred by Failure (1927) 🇺🇸
He has directed sixty-eight feature pictures without having ever been idle a month — started with Ince at $300 a week under contract.
Adventures in Interviewing (1930) 🇺🇸
Further stories about Hollywood and its Famous Folk — Mack Sennett, Monte Blue, von Sternberg and others.
Bit Players — You Know Their Faces But Not Their Names (1934) 🇬🇧
An overdue tribute to the unsung players who are the real backbone of the screen.
Nigel Bruce — The Actor’s Promised Land (1936) 🇬🇧
It’s fashionable to be superior about Hollywood, but here’s one screen player who likes the life in the film city and doesn’t care who knows it.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — George E. Stone — Out of Horror into Happiness (1934) 🇺🇸
You have seen him in half-a-hundred screen thrillers — but never in one which boasted a story more dramatic than that of his own life!
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Gilmor Brown — The Star-Maker of Hollywood (1934) 🇺🇸
Gilmor Brown — founder and directing head of the Pasadena Community Playhouse.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Elmer Dyer — Lens On Wings (1934) 🇺🇸
Elmer Dyer is a cameraman. He shot Hell’s Angels and Dawn Patrol. From the air.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — George Hurrell — He Acts While You Pose (1934) 🇺🇸
You have no doubt seen hundreds of Hurrell’s photographs in the rotogravures of magazines and Sunday supplements.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Billy Hill — He Wrote “The Last Roundup” (1934) 🇺🇸
You know him as composer of The Last Roundup, the song which has captivated continents.