Vintage Movie Resources
Constance Bennett — Always Knitting (1932) 🇺🇸
Connie, the tease, is all but asking, “What do you THINK I’m going to do next?”
Genevieve Tobin — Vamping Maurice (1932) 🇺🇸
It’s funny how Genevieve Tobin fooled Hollywood. The folks always thought she was just a bit cool — and then she vamped Maurice Chevalier in One Hour with You.
Joan Marsh — Temporarily Idle (1932) 🇺🇸
Maybe to give the good old executives a scare, Joan is announcing that she’s on the fence between marriage and career.
Madge Evans — (Not) Dangerous, Sombre and Sirenish (1932) 🇺🇸
If she really did have the love-life that the gossip writers claim she does, says Madge, she would look like this — dangerous and sombre and sirenish.
Karen Morley — Aloof and Dreamy-Eyed (1932) 🇺🇸
Karen Morley’s poise isn’t a pose; she has always had it.
Cecelia Parker — The New Serial Queen (1932) 🇺🇸
Cecelia Parker took the hurdles for stardom so neatly in “The Jungle Mystery,” that the next serial on her active program, was just as easy as eating a piece of apple pie
Tala Birell — Hollywood’s Latest Viennese Sensation (1932) 🇺🇸
Tala Birell has poise and bearing and an exotic appeal — qualities which have placed her right in the front-line trenches of stardom.
Claudette Colbert — The Phantom President's Opposite (1932) 🇺🇸
Claudette isn’t a bit downcast by the fact that she was the girl chosen to play opposite the one and only Mr. Cohan in “The Phantom President.”
Ann Dvorak — Three (Films) on a Match (1932) 🇺🇸
Pert? And then some! Ann’s the kind of girl who can not only keep her chin up, but can tilt it at an angle.
Men Behind the Stars — Mervyn LeRoy (1937) 🇺🇸
The variety of past contributions to the screen marks him with unequalled versatility of genius. He has coupled such hard-hitting drama as “Little Caesar” with the frivolities of a “Gold Diggers” extravaganza.
Men Behind the Stars — Tay Garnett (1937) 🇺🇸
Before Tay Garnett found film fame, Garnett was an actor, an artist, an author and an aviator. Not to mention his stint as a thorough-going newspaperman and a sailor of the bounding main.
Men Behind the Stars — Clarence Brown (1936) 🇺🇸
Clarence Brown’s career is unique. Educated at the University of Tennessee, from which he was graduated with degrees as an electrical and a mechanical engineer, he did not immediately interest himself in motion pictures.
Men Behind the Stars — John M. Stahl (1937) 🇺🇸
By the time John M. Stahl had reached his sixteenth birthday, he was sure that he did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father.
Men Behind the Stars — William Dieterle (1937) 🇺🇸
When three pictures are listed in the select circle of the ten best box-office pictures of last year — and these are directed by one man, it is an achievement seldom, if ever, recorded in motion picture history.
Men Behind the Stars — Roy Del Ruth (1938) 🇺🇸
Despite the fact that he is only 42 years old, Del Ruth has been identified with the picture business for more than two decades, having made his start as a scenarist for Mack Sennett in 1915, graduating to directorship three years later.
Men Behind the Stars — Richard Thorpe (1937) 🇺🇸
Richard Thorpe is one of Hollywood’s youngest and one of its most versatile directors. If an interviewer were to ask him “What have you done in the movies?” he could truthfully answer “Everything.”
Men Behind the Stars — Robert Z. Leonard (1937) 🇺🇸
No list of the real pioneers of motion pictures is complete without the name of Robert Z. Leonard. In 1910, he made his cinema debut in “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” in the role of John Alden.
Men Behind the Stars — Sidney Franklin (1937) 🇺🇸
Sidney Franklin is a man who would find no place in Hollywood — if Hollywood were the sort of place its critics paint it!
Men Behind the Stars — Richard Boleslawski (1937) 🇺🇸
He went to Hollywood when the screen was frantically searching for dialogue directors; was given three jobs and fired from them in rapid succession.
Men Behind the Stars — Archie Mayo (1937) 🇺🇸
Archie Mayo has never made a picture in schedule time — and he has never made a mediocre film.
Men Behind the Stars — Mark Sandrich (1936) 🇺🇸
“Go West, Young Man, Go West!” Mark Sandrich was going to school, Columbia University in New York, when he heard it — he heeded — and that’s a success story. | Mona Barrie and Binnie Barnes are peddling Tuna Salad Barrie and Admiration Costume Hosiery next to this interview.
Men Behind the Stars — Frank Lloyd (1938) 🇺🇸
Long identified in Hollywood for the scope and sweep of his pictures, Lloyd won the directorial award for “Divine Lady” and again for Cavalcade.
Men Behind the Stars — Gregory La Cava (1938) 🇺🇸
La Cava was a pioneer in animated cartoons and drew some of the first Mutt and Jeffs. He wrote and directed some early Johnny Hines comedies so successfully that he became a Paramount director in 1920, first directing W. C. Fields