Vintage Movie Resources
The Old-Time Actor in Moving Picturedom (1915) 🇺🇸
While not a few men and women have acquired fame in picturedom without stage experience, the majority of them are time-tried players
Poverty Row (1926) 🇺🇸
There is a street of humble studios in Hollywood. In them movies are made on the proverbial shoe-string…
The Roll-Call of the Old Guard (1926) 🇺🇸
The heroes of other days are now character men. Great beauties are playing “bits.” And former boy prodigies are vainly seeking work in the studios
William Holland — An Assistant Director Forgets Himself (1926) 🇺🇸
William Holland forgets himself and tells what happened on the set
William Holland — A Big Guy in the Movies (1926) 🇺🇸
William Holland: “I never worked for a director who didn’t expect me to do all the work.”
Kathleen Kirkham — The Divine Spark of Kathleen (1920) 🇺🇸
Kathleen Kirkham will discard the vampy décolleté gowns and fishtail creations in her new starring venture and play real American girl parts
Gladden James — Flivving With Gladden (1920) 🇺🇸
Gladden James is just a big boy today and except in those rare minutes when he grows serious he makes you think of your high school hero
Leaders in the Funny Business (1926) 🇺🇸
No film studio is complete without its “comedy constructor”
Marin Sais and Ollie Kirkby — Jealous? Not a Bit of It! (1916) 🇺🇸
An interview with Marin Sais and Ollie Kirkby on the subject of jealousy
Willard Louis — Handing ‘Em a Big Laugh (1926) 🇺🇸
Willard Louis tells how and when to put a few giggles in an otherwise serious story
Chats with the Players — King Baggot, of the Imp Company (1914) 🇺🇸
I was so absorbed in the drama that King Baggot was conveying that I forgot to concentrate on the things one who has not seen him in the flesh would want to know
Chats with the Players — Myrtle Gonzalez, of the Vitagraph Company (1914) 🇺🇸
“Please remember to spell my last name with a ‘z’ twice,” said Myrtle Gonzalez
Chats with the Players — Rosemary Theby, of the Lubin Company (1914) 🇺🇸
Rosemary Theby will always “plug on,” just because that is the kind of girl she is
Chats with the Players — Carlyle Blackwell, of the Kalem Company (1914) 🇺🇸
Carlyle Blackwell was a busy bee when I caught him at his new studios at East Hollywood
Gail Kane Prescribes for the Children (1914) 🇺🇸
Gail Kane and her greatest ambition in life
Anne Schaefer — The Girl with a Hundred Personalities (1916) 🇺🇸
Anne Schaefer, the Character Woman of the Vitagraph Co.
Constance Binney — The Binney Blues Cure (1920) 🇺🇸
Only recently has the silversheet reflected the delightful image of the petite Constance Binney, a recruit from the legitimate stage
Helen Gibson — The Girl with Nine Lives (1916) 🇺🇸
“As long as the fans want railroad pictures I’ll keep on taking risks playing in them.”
June Keith — The Flower Girl (1916) 🇺🇸
June the Flower Girl and how she became a Photoplayer
Chats with the Players — Raymond Gallagher, of the Universal Company (1915) 🇺🇸
Everybody loves Ray Gallagher!
Chats with the Players — Harry Beaumont, of the Edison Company (1915) 🇺🇸
“I’ve got to kill a fellow — that bald-headed chap over yonder — at ten-thirty”
Chats with the Players — Nicholas Dunaew, of the Vitagraph Company (1915) 🇺🇸
Nicholas Dunaew has taken up scenario writing in addition to his posing
Chats with the Players — William Garwood, of the Imp Company (1915) 🇺🇸
“It’s awful — scarcely a decent thing to wear. I must certainly strengthen my wardrobe”