Vintage Movie Resources
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.
Rouben Mamoulian — What Do You Think of Color? (1935) 🇺🇸
Movie director Rouben Mamoulian, director of “Becky Sharp,” the first major picture using Technicolor’s new color process, writes about the use of colours in movies.
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!
Irving Pichel — Rebel! (1932) 🇺🇸
Irving Pichel, actor, director and author, turns his back on success in one profession to win in another.
They’re Capra-Crazy (1941) 🇺🇸
To Hollywood, Frank Capra represents the ultimate in directorial achievement, and there isn’t a player out there who wouldn’t be happy to work under his guiding genius.
Ernst Lubitsch — First Wit of the Films! (1935) 🇺🇸
Ernst Lubitsch is more colorful than the stars he directs! Vintage ads by Genevieve Tobin and Cary Grant (“Cheramy — It's the perfume I never can forget.”)