Vintage Movie Resources
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
Men Behind the Stars — Wesley Ruggles (1938) 🇺🇸
Today, chieftains of the motion picture industry look upon Ruggles as a “super-showman.” He is one of the very few Hollywoodians rating the dual title of producer-director!
Men Behind the Stars — E. H. Griffith (1936) 🇺🇸
Director of “high comedy” such as “Holiday,” “Rebound,” “Another Language,” “Biography of a Bachelor Girl,” “No More Ladies,” “Next Time We Love,” and “Ladies in Love.”
Men Behind the Stars — Hal Mohr (1937) 🇺🇸
From amateur photographer to ace studio cameraman. That’s the record of Hal Mohr, winner of the Academy award last year for his cinematography of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Men Behind the Stars — John Ford (1936) 🇺🇸
A galloping horse hurled John Ford out of the acting end of the motion picture business and landed him in a director’s chair, where he came up from directing lowly westerns to winning International fame for his marvelous directorial talents and the Academy Award with “The Informer.”
Men Behind the Stars — Mervyn LeRoy (1936) 🇺🇸
Mervyn LeRoy, director of Warners’ coming big film, “Anthony Adverse,” started his motion picture career as an assistant cameraman at the FBO studios, which have since been absorbed by RKO.
Men Behind the Stars — King Vidor (1936) 🇺🇸
A second-hand Ford landed King Vidor and his wife, Florence, in San Francisco with twenty cents in their pockets.
Men Behind the Stars — Frank Capra (1936) 🇺🇸
The spectacular and award-winning production of 1934, “It Happened One Night,” was directed by a Hollywood genius — Frank Capra.
Men Behind the Stars — George Cukor (1936) 🇺🇸
A young man, filled with tremendous force and vitality, but still ranked as one of the most patient and considerate of Hollywood’s cinema-makers, this director makes no secret of his preference for the screen over the so-called “legitimate” stage.
Men Behind the Stars — W. S. Van Dyke (1936) 🇺🇸
W. S. Van Dyke has made a great name for himself as the creator of adventure romances.
The Headline Career of Jean Harlow 1927-1932 (1932) 🇺🇸
Read the life story of Jean Harlow, as told in the headlines and see if you are not amazed that so much could have happened to one girl in such a short span of years.
Leo McCarey — He Directs for Laughs — and Gets ‘Em (1935) 🇺🇸
Leo McCarey, the rollicking, young Irishman who directed “Ruggles of Red Gap,” is described by Charles Laughton as “not only a great director, but the greatest comic mind now living.”
Four Directors Tell What’s Wrong with the Movies (1933) 🇺🇸
Why aren’t there more movie hits ? That’s what Hollywood is asking. And Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Borzage, Cecil B. DeMille and Mervyn Le Roy — all makers of hits — are here to tell why. Listen in and hear some frank talk!
Love Comes to Leslie and Bette in “The Petrified Forest” (1936) 🇺🇸
It’s a strange love story that brings together the stars of that widely discussed film, “Of Human Bondage.”
With Shirley In Kipling’s India (1937) 🇺🇸
Little La Temple had the most fun of her full career while making “Wee Willie Winkie”.
Rosalind Russell — It’s Smart to Be Screwy (1941) 🇺🇸
She’s the sort of girl who was the school tomboy, who at school shouted the loudest. She was the black-stockinged youngster, who, good or bad at them, played all the games with more vigor and energy than the rest of the team. She was the one who never bothered about dental braces or spinach.