Vintage Movie Resources
Leah Baird — She’s a Regular Trooper, Leah Baird is (1924) 🇺🇸
And when one actor says that about another it constitutes the perfect tribute
Priscilla Dean — Oh, Why Did They Name You Priscilla? (1924) 🇺🇸
Patricia, or Carmelita, or Delphine would have fitted, but not that Puritanical cognomen
Pearl White — Good-by Boys, I’m Through (1924) 🇺🇸
Star who never knew fear says that “Terror” is her last picture
Our Gang (1924) 🇺🇸
“Hi, you, get off’r that football. How kin we play if you lay on it all the time, anyway?”
Edna Purviance — Interviewing Edna (1916) 🇺🇸
A movie chat in the current manner — not to be taken too seriously
Edna Purviance — Hollywood’s Mystery Woman (1924) 🇺🇸
She is in pictures, but not of them. But she is both in and of the very best in California society
William Haines — The Wisecracker Reveals Himself (1929) 🇺🇸
William Haines tells of his life in Hollywood and a career which at first promised little. And of his romances, philosophy and friends
Nancy Carroll — The Littlest Rebel in Hollywood (1929) 🇺🇸
The story of Irish Nancy Carroll, who battled her way to film glory
Lila Lee — Cuddles Grows Up (1929) 🇺🇸
And Lila Lee swears that she’ll never play a sweet ga-ga role again
Dorothy Sebastian — Little Alabam (1929) 🇺🇸
Hollywood tested the mettle of Dorothy Sebastian
Mary Duncan — Hollywood’s New Slayer (1929) 🇺🇸
Mary Duncan has been criticized for obvious vamping. Her exuberance has bedeviled directors into letting her do her stuff. But she is too clever to continue long in error
Geraldine Dvorak — The Girl Who Played Greta Garbo (1929) 🇺🇸
Hired to double, she literally became the Swedish star
Dennis King — Another Fairbanks (1929) 🇺🇸
Dennis King makes you think of Fairbanks. King is not tall, yet he is so active that you never notice his height. His carriage is erect, and he has Doug’s slim grace.
William S. Hart — After Four Years (1929) 🇺🇸
Bill Hart, the lonely star, wants to return to the screen after his long absence. And fans want him back
Leslie Fenton — He Threw Away a Million (1929) 🇺🇸
A remarkable and true story of a man whom Hollywood couldn’t buy
Raymond Hackett — The Lawyer for the Defense (1929) 🇺🇸
Raymond Hackett pleads himself into a talkie hit
Nina May — A Jungle Lorelei (1929) 🇺🇸
Nina Mae McKinney is the greatest acting discovery of the age, and I’ll say she certainly acts with every fiber.
Note: This text was published in 1929 and some readers might find some of the African American stereotyping offensive.
Madge Evans — Pauvre Enfant ? Merci — Non ! (1918) 🇺🇸
Or, in plain, everyday U. S., Madge Evans is not a pallid chee-ild of the drama.
Lila Lee — Do You Believe in Fairies? (1918) 🇺🇸
The happy romance of Lila Lee indicates their presence around us
Roy Stewart — A Blue-Ribbon Baby (1918) 🇺🇸
Referring, of course, to the Roy Stewart of some years back
May Allison Is Back! (1918) 🇺🇸
She cherished primadonna aspirations but the war caused their postponement — and her return to the screen
Marguerite Snow — She Never Worked for Griffith (1918) 🇺🇸
Marguerite Snow never even entered the Biograph Studio
David Warfield — He Refused Five Thousand a Day (1918) 🇺🇸
David Warfield has just refused the greatest salary ever offered to any human being, under any circumstances.
Anita Stewart — Anita's War Garden (1918) 🇺🇸
Not for the lowly potato or string-bean does she labor, but for a bumper crop of fearless soldiers.