Vintage Movie Resources
Packing a Trunk with Violet Mersereau (1916) 🇺🇸
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.
Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne — All in the Day’s Work (1917) 🇺🇸
Madge Kennedy’s Bow to the Movie Fans (1917) 🇺🇸
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?
Julian Eltinge, Famous Feminine Impersonator (1917) 🇺🇸
Bubbling Bessie Barriscale (1917) 🇺🇸
There are very few people who have the privilege of really knowing Bessie Barriscale.
Oscar Apfel — From Standard Oil to Stutz (1917) 🇺🇸
Leslie Elton — How Cartoon Comedies Are Made (1916) 🇺🇸
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
Agnes Vernon — The Life of a Photoplayer — Three Parts Smile, Two Parts Work, and One Part Rest (1917) | www.vintoz.com 🇺🇸
Lillian Walker — How I Became a Photoplayer (1916) 🇺🇸
My debut in motion pictures was the result of my seeking a way out of a dilemma.
William Farnum — How I Became a Photoplayer (1916) 🇺🇸
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.
Pauline Frederick — How I Became a Photoplayer (1916) 🇺🇸
It is not hard to understand that there are many kind friends who are astounded by my decision to permanently eschew the stage for the screen.
Earle Williams — How I Became a Photoplayer (1916) 🇺🇸
Ora Carew — Smiles that Travel Miles (1917) 🇺🇸
Vivian Martin — How I Became a Photoplayer (1916) 🇺🇸
Henry B. Walthall — How I Became a Photoplayer (1916) 🇺🇸
In my early days I was literally hampered by dramatic instinct, human sympathy and emotional feeling. At first I overacted, rather, over-felt.
Helen Holmes — Intrepid Queen of the Rail (1917) 🇺🇸
Helen Holmes — intrepid Queen of the Rail — cites some curious superstitions of railroad men
George Periolat — A Master of Make-Up (1917) 🇺🇸
J. Warren Kerrigan — A Son O’ the Stars (1917) 🇺🇸
“I refuse to work after six o’clock or on Sundays. I want some time to myself!”
Judith Allen — Repenting at Leisure (1934) 🇺🇸
Revealing Judith Allen’s marriage, the reason, for its concealment — and the reasons for her repentance
Georgia Hale — The Girl with the Broken Ankle (1925) 🇺🇸
The story of Georgia Hale who was willing to work for nothing
Monta Bell — He Got What He Wanted (1925) 🇺🇸
Carol Dempster — The Mystery Girl of Pictures (1925) 🇺🇸
They call her the mystery girl of pictures, the soft-spoken, shy young actress who plays the leading roles in D. W. Griffith’s pictures. For, in the rush for recognition and prominence, Carol Dempster stands aloof — and a quiet onlooker in the hectic, mow world.