Vintage Movie Resources
Dorothy Revier — The Caviar of Poverty Row (1928) 🇺🇸
She is Dorothy Revier, who is so easily the choicest possession of the independent companies that she is frequently borrowed by the big ones.
Gilbert Roland — After Success — What? (1928) 🇺🇸
Following his success in “Camille,” Gilbert Roland faced many problems he had never known before. This story explains how he has kept his balance in a situation where others have failed.
Ramon Novarro — What Is His Mystic Power? (1930) 🇺🇸
Little-known facts about Ramon Novarro are brought to light in a brilliantly informative discussion of his influence over fans.
Marilyn Miller — Her Strange Handicap (1930) 🇺🇸
Though Marilyn Miller is queen of musical comedy by virtue of being its highest-priced star. she can't read a note. This surprising story tells how she triumphs in spite of it.
Yola d’Avril — In The Springtime (1930) 🇺🇸
A young man's fancy can easily turn to Yola d’Avril, in April or in August, and besides, her budding career is well worth considering.
Estelle Taylor — The Delaware Delilah (1930) 🇺🇸
She is Estelle Taylor, whose seductiveness sends the interviewer's senses reeling back to biblical history.
Why Don't They Star? (1929) 🇺🇸
Beautiful, alluring, with pronounced ability to wear gorgeous costumes — why is it that certain popular players never attain stardom?
Jean Arthur — Nasal — But Nice (1930) 🇺🇸
Jean Arthur is found to be just naïve enough to be interesting, and free of those plagues of Hollywood, yearning for big things in literature and cultivating a complex, and she is not at all nasal off the screen.
John Stambaugh — From the Dust of Defeat (1930) 🇺🇸
John Stambaugh, one of ten college boys chosen for pictures, refused to admit failure when he and his fellows were released after a try-out. Now, after two years, he is coming into his own.
Ann Harding — Blond — But Not Light (1930) 🇺🇸
One has only to consider Ann Harding's life to know that her pastel beauty masks the righting spirit of a general's daughter.
Bill Powell — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸
A brilliant resume of the character and career of one of the most adroit and sure-fire stars.
David Rollins — Oh, Davie, Behave! (1929) 🇺🇸
David Rollins, at twenty, hasn't quite found himself and is undecided whether to be whimsical, or aloof and mysterious, but until he does decide he succeeds in being thoroughly engaging and rather touchingly adolescent.
Alice Joyce — She Acts When She Chooses (1929) 🇺🇸
Alice Joyce is the only player who retires for long periods, and finds the public waiting for her when she comes back for an occasional picture.
What's Become of Them? (1929) 🇺🇸
Kenneth Harlan, Charles Ray, Bert Lytell, and Cullen Landis were once cream in the fans' coffee, but why do they enrich the screen no longer? The writer of this article sought them out for an answer and here you have his report of them as they are to-day.
Johnny Mack Brown — Johnny the Kid (1931)
The nice boy from Alabama walks away with one of the prize roles of the season — "Billy the Kid"
May McAvoy — What the "Mc" in McAvoy Means (1927) 🇺🇸
May, of the McAvoy clan, has a strong whiff of Scotch in her ancestry and proves it by driving shrewd bargains for her professional services, to the amazement of those who believe her to be just a sweet little thing.
Dorothy Mackaill — Following the Blue Print (1927) 🇺🇸
Dorothy Mackaill planned her career with care, and she is following it according to specifications, even though her sudden marriage surprised her almost as much as it did the world at large. | Irene Rich uses Maybelline
Tim McCoy — Born to the West — and East, Too (1927) 🇺🇸
Though he is a new cowboy star of the films, Colonel Tim McCoy is a product of Eastern education, army training, and Western breeding — and on his ranch he dresses for dinner.
Lloyd Hughes — Just an Average American (1927) 🇺🇸
You could meet Lloyd Hughes anywhere, for there are a million like him in this U. S. A. of ours. Perhaps that is why the fans like him so well.
James Hall — You Never Can Tell (1927) 🇺🇸
James Hall's quick rise on the screen should be a lesson to those who told him he didn't register, and that he wasn't a typical American.
Stars That Never Were (1932) 🇺🇸
Why do players who shine from the first, like Barry Norton, fail to go on?
Marian Nixon — Rich Wife (1932) 🇺🇸
Marian Nixon's wealthy marriage couldn't satisfy a girl who had known the joys and sorrows of a career.