Vintage Movie Resources
Elissa Landi — How I met Charles Farrell (1932) 🇺🇸
Elissa Landi — Film Star, Composer and Author reminisces — on how she met her co-starring partner Charles Farrell
Charles Chaplin — The Girl I Wanted (1932) 🇺🇸
At last the beloved clown tells of his first love.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy — The Seriousness of Being Funny in Four Languages (1930) 🇺🇸
Amusing piece in from the days before movies were dubbed into other languages. Comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy struggle to make French, Spanish and German versions of “Brats.”
Adventures in Interviewing (1930) 🇺🇸
Further stories about Hollywood and its Famous Folk — Mack Sennett, Monte Blue, von Sternberg and others.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — George E. Stone — Out of Horror into Happiness (1934) 🇺🇸
You have seen him in half-a-hundred screen thrillers — but never in one which boasted a story more dramatic than that of his own life!
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Gilmor Brown — The Star-Maker of Hollywood (1934) 🇺🇸
Gilmor Brown — founder and directing head of the Pasadena Community Playhouse.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Elmer Dyer — Lens On Wings (1934) 🇺🇸
Elmer Dyer is a cameraman. He shot Hell’s Angels and Dawn Patrol. From the air.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — George Hurrell — He Acts While You Pose (1934) 🇺🇸
You have no doubt seen hundreds of Hurrell’s photographs in the rotogravures of magazines and Sunday supplements.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Billy Hill — He Wrote “The Last Roundup” (1934) 🇺🇸
You know him as composer of The Last Roundup, the song which has captivated continents.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Sally Rand — A Fan Made Her Famous (1934) 🇺🇸
Sally Rand, beauteous blond exponent of the fan dance whose nude terpsichory, save for a protective pair of feather fans, recently got her into plenty of legal difficulties in Chicago, New York and other key cities.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Murray Spivack — The Noisiest Man Alive (1934) 🇺🇸
Making a noise like a canary is a comparatively simple procedure; but when you tackle thirty-ton monsters of seven million years ago you can take it from me you’re delving into the realm of difficult bedlam!
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Bebe Daniels and Pauline Gallagher — They Run a Red, White and Blue Shop (1934) 🇺🇸
Careers for women? Not one, but two or three — with a home and children on the side — is the latest Hollywood custom.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Natalie Bucknell — From Secret Service to Studios (1934) 🇺🇸
Natalie Bucknell bosses the best research department in Hollywood — that of M-G-M. If they need to photograph a Swedish fire-plug, a mule cart in Barcelona, or the third left eyelash of the Venus de Milo, Natalie is the girl who tells them how to do it and supplies a photo and description of the actual object.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Howard Dietz — He Wanted a Two Weeks’ Job (1934) 🇺🇸
Howard Dietz — Supervisor of the advertising and publicity departments at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Louise Brooks — Returning as Russian Charmer (1931) 🇺🇸
Louise Brooks is returning to the screen as the Russian charmer in the Fox production, “God’s Gift to Women.”
Adolphe Menjou — He Refuses to be a Star (1931) 🇺🇸
Adolphe Menjou prefers less honor and fewer worries.