Vintage Movie Resources
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
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 — William Wyler (1938) 🇺🇸
A vacation was responsible for William Wyler entering the movies, and eventually becoming one of the top rank directors.
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 — 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.
Behind the Scenes with Woody, Joan, Clark and Bob (1935) 🇺🇸
Three famous stars and an equally famous director worked together in “Forsaking All Others!” How did they get along, or did they?
W. S. Van Dyke — Hollywood’s Most Versatile Director (1935) 🇺🇸
“Let Van Dyke do it!” is now more or less accepted as a slogan at the studio where he is under contract.
Eskimo — The Story of “Igloo” (1932) 🇺🇸
The actual account of the filming of a grim drama in the Far North.
W. S. Van Dyke (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Although he has been a miner, lumberman and newspaper reporter, W. S. Van Dyke has been connected with the stage and screen almost since his birth.
William Thiele (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Possessing an uncanny talent for discovering and developing actors and actresses, William Thiele is both writer and director.
Errol Taggart (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Even before he ran away from home at fourteen Errol Taggart was an earnest advocate of preparedness.
Sam Wood (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Sam Wood bought a “gold-brick” and surprised even himself when it proved to be made of money.