Vintage Movie Resources
Walter Brennan — Up From the Bottom (1937) 🇺🇸
You can’t tell Walter Brennan how to become a star.
We Nominate for Stardom — Randolph Scott (1932) 🇺🇸
When Paramount signed up Randolph, there was a rumor that he was to take Gary Cooper’s place.
We Nominate for Stardom — Ann Dvorak (1932) 🇺🇸
Leslie Fenton knew what he was doing when he eloped with Ann. For she is the first brunette sensation in years.
Carole Lombard — Hardly a Woman of Stone (1932) 🇺🇸
A woman of stone? Well, hardly! Carole’s beauty may be the kind that sculptors dream about, but beyond those classical lines there’s a heart working overtime.
Bathing Beauties — What Has Become of the Famous Sennett Beauties? (1932) 🇺🇸
What the Follies girls are to Broadway, the Sennett bathing beauties once were to Hollywood. A few have risen to stardom. But most of them have vanished completely.
Future Favorites — Bill Brady (1937) 🇺🇸
It is quite usual for a boy’s voice to dive from choir soprano to basso profundo at a certain tender age... It is almost unheard of for a full-grown man’s voice to change from a lusty baritone to a lyric tenor.
Future Favorites — Armida (1937) 🇺🇸
A membership in that select Hollywood society of actors and actresses who have inherited their talents from their parents belongs to the diminutive Mexican pepper-pot, the vivacious Armida.
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...
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?
Marlene Dietrich — The Blonde Venus (1932) 🇺🇸
Marlene completely feminine — and completely mystifying to boot!
Betty Lawford — Used to Footlights (1932) 🇺🇸
Betty reveals why so many Hollywood girls — even Garbo — wear a lock of hair over one eye.
Joan Blondell — “I Won’t Say Yes — And I Won’t Say No” (1932) 🇺🇸
“I won’t say yes — and I won’t say no.”
Thelma Todd — She’d Rather Have Fun Than Fame (1932) 🇺🇸
When a girl has a Cupid’s-bow mouth, and eyes to go with it, she usually takes her beauty seriously. But not Thelma!
Rochelle Hudson — Getting Ahead Fast in Hollywood (1932) 🇺🇸
Rochelle is giving you one of those looks straight from the shoulder — the kind they give strangers in Oklahoma.
Cecil Beaton — Taking Beauty For a Ride (1931) 🇺🇸
Cecil Beaton, English photographer, doesn’t mind telling what our sirens lack.
Myrna Loy — Beautiful and Sinister (1932) 🇺🇸
Hollywood has coined a new word — “Loytering.” It means “looking beautiful and sinister at the same time.”