Vintage Movie Resources
Lewis Milestone — That Boy from Odessa (1932) 🇺🇸
Lewis Milestone was born in Russia and he has worked his way up from raincoat maker at $4 a week to the forefront of motion picture direction.
John Wayne, Richard Cromwell, Lewis Ayres — 3 Boys Who Won (1932) 🇺🇸
John Wayne, Richard Cromwell and Lewis Ayres all had a tough time getting their first screen opportunities.
Kay Francis — Working Girl (1932) 🇺🇸
Broadway knew Kay Francis as a girl who lived for a laugh but Hollywood has transformed her.
The Mystery of William Powell — Part II (1932) 🇺🇸
How the popular actor gained his dramatic training, how he won the help of Leo Dietrichstein and how he came to motion pictures.
Wallace Beery — My Life Until Now — Part 3 (1934) 🇺🇸
This is the final instalment of the first authorized true life story from the man who has been the hero of a remarkable career in motion picture.
Wallace Beery — My Life Until Now — Part 1 (1934) 🇺🇸
“I’ve been so poor that I couldn’t buy half-soles for my worn-out shoes — and I’ve had nearly a million dollars salted away.” In this unusual life story Wallace Beery tells you the intimate facts of the ups and downs that he has known.
Wallace Beery — My Life Until Now — Part 2 (1934) 🇺🇸
The first authorized true life story from the man who has been the hero of one of the most remarkable careers in the films.
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.
Melvyn Douglas — Famous Overnight (1932) 🇺🇸
Melvyn Douglas was a hit in his first appearance in pictures and he is steadily gaining in popularity.
How Hollywood Men Keep House (1934) 🇺🇸
Charlie Chaplin’s house is run almost like clockwork. But there was a time, I hear, when Charlie lived in one room and did his own housework when you might have called the place Racketty-Racketty House and got no argument even from Charlie.
Garbo’s Destiny (1934) 🇺🇸
What is to be the future of the glamorous Greta? Will she become immortalized as another Bernhardt, or another Duse? Here are some answers from stars who have worked in pictures with her. Do you agree?
George Raft Talks (1934) 🇺🇸
And here you have the answers to the questions all Hollywood wanted to ask about George Raft (in 1934, that is).
“Cleopatra Was No Different!” says Cecil B. DeMille (1934) 🇺🇸
For over 2,000 years Cleopatra has had a reputation she doesn’t deserve. Movie director Cecil B. DeMille sets the record straight for her.
Margaret Sullavan — Giving Life to the Little “Bunny” (1934) 🇺🇸
“Only Yesterday” introduced her. Only today, she is a nation-wide sensation. Only tomorrow, to what heights may she attain? Her followers harbor no doubts as to the answer.
Joan Crawford — Chained between Otto and Clark (1934) 🇺🇸
In “Chained”, Joan Crawford takes a long sea voyage to forget a married man.
Dolores del Río — No More Spanish Charmers (1934) 🇺🇸
Have you considered Dolores a type, doomed forever to play Spanish charmers with the aid of fan and mantilla? Wrong again — and the producers knew it.
Maurice Chevalier — Wooing the Merry Widow (1934) 🇺🇸
Rebellion against repeated roles won Maurice Chevalier a chance to portray Prince Danilo in The Merry Widow.
Constance Bennett — Three Diverse Personalities (1934) 🇺🇸
Costumed thus for her part in 20th Century’s “The Affairs of Cellini,” Constance Bennett causes one to wonder why Cellini’s loves were plural.
Gloria Swanson — Lending Radiance (1934) 🇺🇸
Gloria Swanson is a permanent personality in the fluctuating turmoil of Hollywood, where ingénues are seen today and gone tomorrow
Ralph Bellamy — Too Nice to be a Villain (1934) 🇺🇸
Ralph Bellamy has played heroes and villains and believable combinations of both. But they gave him no more villainous roles because he gained too much sympathy and that would never do in this circumspect world of ours.
The Real Mae West — Part A (1934) 🇺🇸
Mae West's — blonde, bold, bad and buxom — first bit part in a movie set the theme for her future career:
The scene showed her checking in at a swanky night club. The check girl admired her jewels.
“Goodness,” she exclaimed, “what beautiful diamonds!”
“Goodness,” retorted Mae West, “had nothing to do with them, dearie.”