Vintage Movie Resources
Richard Thorpe (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Richard Thorpe has had practically every kind of a job in the picture business from extra player to studio manager.
George B. Seitz (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — George B. Seitz directs his pictures with an artist’s eye, for, next to directing, Seitz likes best to paint.
J. Walter Ruben (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — He started modestly by writing fiction for magazines and enjoyed an exceptional degree of success from the first.
Edward Ludwig (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Probably Hollywood’s most-traveled director is Edward Ludwig
Reinhold Schünzel (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — On a walk in a park in a European city, a little boy used to stand and watch the Punch and Judy show presented daily for the children.
Edwin L. Marin (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — By adopting a method peculiarly his own, Edwin L. Marin became a successful director without serving an apprenticeship.
Gustav Machatý (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Fifteen years ago, on his first Hollywood adventure, Gustav Machatý trained and attended a studio comedy lion known as Humpy.
Robert Z. Leonard (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — A graduate of the musical comedy stage, Robert Z. Leonard has an enviable record of directorial hits, both silent and talking.
Sidney Franklin (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — A sun tan was the reason for Sidney Franklin becoming a director.
Victor Fleming (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Victor Fleming has the amazing record of being associated with the picture business more than twenty-five years, and more than half of that time as an “ace” director.
Charles Dorian (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The How-I-Made-Good-In-Hollywood-Club has never been successful in enlisting Charley Dorian as a member.
Clarence Brown (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Two degrees in engineering and a successful automobile business lacked the power to keep Clarence Brown out of the theater as one of its major craftsmen.
Edward Buzzell (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Eddie Buzzell, as a boy in high school, discovered that he had mannerisms that made people laugh. So he gave up the idea of becoming an engineer and set about becoming a comedian.
Frank Borzage (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Watching Frank Borzage direct a picture, the novice is likely to believe that it is easy work.
George Fitzmaurice (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — George Fitzmaurice received his education in private schools and academies in Paris, where he was born on February 13.
George Cukor (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Although he knew absolutely nothing about theatrical technique, George Cukor answered a newspaper ad for an assistant stage manager for the Chicago company of The Better ‘Ole, and sold himself.
Jack Conway (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — As an actor on the stage and screen, Jack Conway served a profitable apprenticeship to become one of Hollywood’s highly successful directors.
Dorothy Arzner (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The only woman director in motion pictures, Dorothy Arzner, under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, first aspired to a medical career.
Mervyn LeRoy — “Let’s Make it a Good Scene” (1937) 🇺🇸
These words sum up the personal philosophy of Mervyn LeRoy, Warner Bros.’ premier director, who has to his credit such pictures as “Anthony Adverse,” “Five Star Final,” “Little Caesar,” and who just finished directing “Three Men on a Horse.”
Tay Garnett — Far East Comes to Hollywood (1939) 🇺🇸
Director Tay Garnett traveled half way ‘round the world to film “Trade Winds”.
Richard Boleslawski — The Way of a Lancer in Pictures (1937) 🇺🇸
Director Richard Boleslawski on the set of the Technicolor production “The Garden of Allah”.
Norman Taurog — He Was a Kid Himself! (1932) 🇺🇸
And he hasn’t forgotten it. That’s why Norman Taurog has achieved such wonders in directing child actors.
Wesley Ruggles — His Third Time On Top (1934) 🇺🇸
Director, Keystone Cop, Comedian — Wesley Ruggles explains survival in Hollywood.
On the Set with John Huston, Directing “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1947) 🇺🇸
John Huston walked slowly out of the Acapulca bar and pulled a cigarette tobacco pouch from the breast pocket of his wrinkled tweed jacket. Tall and lanky, dressed in unpressed slacks and a crushed felt hat, he looked like a youthful, gangling cowboy. His somewhat battered ex-fighter’s face wore a quietly serious expression.