Vintage Movie Resources

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.

An inquiry into one of the more or less overnight sensations of 1929. 

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.

by Margaret Reid

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, September 1930

by Margaret Reid

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, August 1930

by Margaret Reid

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, July 1930

by Margaret Reid

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, March 1930

A small group of young, foreign-born devotees of cinema art are keenly happy with their evenings of home cooking and lively talk of the finer things.

You won’t see Tom Mix in any new pictures for some time, for he has run away from Hollywood and joined the circus he trouped with twenty years ago.

That’s what Charles Morton believes in doing when he gets a knock in private or professional life.

One stops, looks, and listens when Carol Lombard comes on the scene, for her beauty enjoys the benefit of sound effects.

Louise Glaum offers ten commandments and other pointers.

The director of the Black and White Comedies talks about his troubles.

An analysis of Miss Adorée’s character reveals one of the unique personalities of Hollywood.

An exceptional and sympathetic analysis of the Garbo personality, which is no less remarkable and unusual outside the studio than before the camera.