Vintage Movie Resources
The Star Creators of Hollywood — W. S. Van Dyke (1936) 🇺🇸
The Star Creators of Hollywood — John Ford (1936) 🇺🇸
The Star Creators of Hollywood — Frank Lloyd (1936) 🇺🇸
D. W. Griffith — The Star Maker Whose Dreams Turned to Dust (1934) 🇺🇸
He produced over four hundred films. Only a small part of profits these movies made ever found their way back to Griffith. When they did, he usually tossed the money, with reckless courage, into another picture.
Hollywood Teaches Hugh Walpole How to Write (1934) 🇺🇸
James Cagney and Allen Jenkins — Two “Toughs” from the Chorus (1934) 🇺🇸
Una Merkel (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Una Merkel made her debut in a picture in which she played the sister of Lillian Gish and, at the same time, doubled for her, but the picture was never finished.
Dorothy Arzner (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Myrna Loy — Working Girl (1934) 🇺🇸
Gilbert Adrian — Gowns by Adrian (1935) 🇺🇸
Wesley Ruggles — His Third Time On Top (1934) 🇺🇸
Barbara Stanwyck in “The Bitter Tea of General Yen” (1932) 🇺🇸
Nils Asther in “The Bitter Tea of General Yen” (1932) 🇺🇸
What Makes You So Funny, Mischa Auer? (1938) 🇺🇸
Tribute to Ida Lupino (1940) 🇺🇸
John Wayne — Oh, for a Hair Cut! (1930) 🇺🇸
Rosalind Russell — Rahs for Roz (1939) 🇺🇸
Ever since I left Rosalind Russell I have been poring over the fancy nourishes beneath the Declaration of Independence — through John Hancock, the Adams boys and Button Gwinnett.
So far I haven’t uncovered a Russell. Only a very unusual inspiration, I’m sure, could drive me to such extensive historical research and abstract speculation. But then Miss Rosalind Russell is indeed unusual. She is a Declaration of Independence walking.
Louise Brooks — Manhattan Technique (1926) 🇺🇸
Exquisitely hard-boiled 19 years old Louise Brooks is interviewed by a awed journalist, and this is how the interview starts:
“I live only for my art,” Louise said. “I read nothing but instructive books.” She looked up from beneath her long lashes to see how it was going.
The Story of Greta Garbo — Part III (1928) 🇺🇸
In the two previous installments (April 1928 | May 1928) of her fascinating story, Miss Garbo told of her lonely childhood in Sweden and of her first ambitions to become an actress. As a young girl she entered the Royal Dramatic School in Stockholm and while she was still a student, Mauritz Stiller discovered her screen possibilities. Her first European picture was a great success but, because of bad financial conditions in Europe, her career seemed at a standstill when Stiller met Louis B. Mayer in Berlin. Mayer signed a contract with both Stiller and Miss Garbo. At the end of the summer, Miss Garbo sailed for America. She was shy, strange and she knew no English. But she had high hopes and expected to find New York carpeted with flowers. Now read the final chapter of this engrossing life story.