Vintage Movie Resources
Madge Bellamy — Beautiful, But — Herself (1928) 🇺🇸
And being herself is only one of Madge Bellamy’s claims to keen individuality.
Irene Rich — Just What You’d Expect (1923) 🇺🇸
Irene Rich is one of the players whose personality may be said to match her roles.
Stars at Auction (1928) 🇺🇸
Believe it or not, actors in Hollywood are “sold” in a way to recall the old-time slave trade — but they don’t mind being bartered at all.
William Bakewell — An Interview Enters His Life (1928) 🇺🇸
Paddy O’Flynn — A Stepson of the Movies (1928) 🇺🇸
Pearl White — How to Act (1918) 🇺🇸
Ralph Ince — Shopping for Human Beings (1921) 🇺🇸
After diligently searching for exact types for his production, Ralph Ince has decided that a bit of faded silk is not half as hard to match as human characteristics, or mental outlook.
Those Cowless Cowboys (1921) 🇺🇸
Oh, those cowless cowboys of the motion pictures! Those guys that go ‘round all dolled up like a merry-go-round in the cowboy scenery, but who never seem to have any work to do!
Films in the Flowery Land (1918) 🇺🇸
Richard Talmadge — Could a Broken Neck Stop Him? Not Much! (1927) 🇺🇸
Frank Hopper — One Chance in Thousands (1927) 🇺🇸
Frank Hopper had been hearing for years that he looked like Theodore Roosevelt, but it took a stranger to see in that resemblance a chance for him to play the great American in “The Rough Riders.”
Allan Dwan — Scenario Writing from the Director’s Viewpoint (1918) 🇺🇸
Practical information based on the actual experience in the studios of one who produces successes, written by Allan Dwan
June Collyer — When They Love Out Loud (1929) 🇺🇸
June Collyer has her own ideas of the voltage power of spoken love scenes versus silent ones and lets us in on some secrets.
Lila Lee — Dogging Lila’s Footsteps (1929) 🇺🇸
George K. Arthur — He’s a Canny Scot (1928) 🇺🇸
Winifred Westover — Her Prayer Was Answered (1929) 🇺🇸
Henry B. Walthall — Once of Alabama (1918) 🇺🇸
His father wanted him to become a farmer, and his mother hoped he would follow the law. But he became an actor because that was the one career that interested him.
Lupe Velez — Just a Little Madcap (1929) 🇺🇸
An inquiry into one of the more or less overnight sensations of 1929.
Dorothy Janis — Minnehaha Diminuendo (1930) 🇺🇸
The only Indian flapper in the movies is one of the tiniest of actresses — Dorothy Janis — but she makes up for her lack of inches in pep and determination.
Billie Dove — As She Is (1930) 🇺🇸
Laura La Plante — As She Is (1930) 🇺🇸
by Margaret Reid
Collection: Picture Play Magazine, September 1930
Joan Crawford — As She Is (1930) 🇺🇸
by Margaret Reid
Collection: Picture Play Magazine, August 1930
Janet Gaynor — As She Is (1930) 🇺🇸
by Margaret Reid
Collection: Picture Play Magazine, July 1930