Vintage Movie Resources
William Duncan — The Business of Making Thrills (1922) 🇺🇸
Making Thrills — A man who makes them tells how they’re done
Olga Petrova’s Page (1922) 🇺🇸
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
Robert G. Vignola — Photoplay Stars I Have Directed (1917) 🇺🇸
M. Charles DeRoche (1923) 🇺🇸
Ben Turpin — The Life Tragedy of a Sennett Beauty (1923) 🇺🇸
The life tragedy of a Sennett beauty or how to cultivate sex attraction
Norma Talmadge — My Ammunition Plants (1917) 🇺🇸
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.
John Emerson in Pictures (1916) 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸
An Interview with Charlotte Greenwood (1916) 🇺🇸
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) 🇺🇸
Earle Williams — How I Became a Photoplayer (1916) 🇺🇸
Ora Carew — Smiles that Travel Miles (1917) 🇺🇸
Vivian Martin — How I Became a Photoplayer (1916) 🇺🇸
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.
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.
