Vintage Movie Resources

Making Thrills — A man who makes them tells how they’re done

Stage and film favorite, short story writer, playwright. Brilliant Madame Petrova, who journeyed to Spain to collect material for her own play in which she appears on the stage this year, is going to write a page for Photoplay each month

The life tragedy of a Sennett beauty or how to cultivate sex attraction

As yet I am only a rookie and not a regular farmer or farmerlette, but after my summer of intensive training I will be better equipped to comply with Photo-Play Journal’s request for an article on wartime gardening.

Just what possessed Violet Mersereau’s to invite me to interview her at such an unreasonable hour was more than my fertile mind could fathom.

She wore shell-rim glasses that imparted a professional air. On her small, well-built head was a Dutch bonnet and her shoes had low heels and square toes. Her dark gray suit fitted well and was unobtrusive. Can this be Madge Kennedy?

There are very few people who have the privilege of really knowing Bessie Barriscale.

How Leslie Elton carries a comedy company to the studio in his vest pocket and turns out film farces with no other aid than a camera

My debut in motion pictures was the result of my seeking a way out of a dilemma.

I have just completed my seventeenth film production. Allowing three “takes” to each scene, this would make approximately 225,000 feet of celluloid, or nearly forty-five miles, in the two years in which I have been in the photoplay.

I have been asked by The Photo-Play Journal to write a short story on “How I Became a Photoplayer,” and accordingly will endeavor to present facts which, however, I am afraid will disclose nothing particularly startling.