Vintage Movie Resources
One-Day Stars (1932) 🇺🇸
Generally speaking there are three classes of screen stars: those who last for years, those who last for months, and those who last but a day.
Helen Twelvetrees — A Lady in Luck (1932) 🇺🇸
Luck gave Helen Twelvetrees her chances, but she made good on her own.
Tallulah Bankhead — A Lady for Legends (1932) 🇺🇸
"Acting is quite natural with me. I have never even studied it, or taken a lesson in my life. I just act."
Una Merkel — Perky Merkel (1932) 🇺🇸
Una Merkel didn't think she was beautiful enough for pictures, but how she has helped the fifteen she's played in!
Regis Toomey — Nine-O'Clock Guy (1932) 🇺🇸
Though Regis Toomey seldom appears in the magazines, he never fails to come through with a competent and satisfying performance on the screen.
Hardie Albright — Luck and Pluck (1932) 🇺🇸
Our success story this month tells how Hardie Albright's ideas carried him through the dark days to bright prospects.
Genevieve Tobin — Oh, That Mitzi! (1932) 🇺🇸
"I have been making money for years, and have never been dependent upon any man."
Tom Brown — Nix on Dames (1932) 🇺🇸
After dating almost every comely lass in Hollywood except Marie Dressler, Tom Brown, at nineteen, says "Bah!" Here's the sad tale of what the gals dished out to him.
Eric Linden — Boy Wonder (1932) 🇺🇸
Eric Linden admits — no, announces — that he was always that, and you can't blame him after reading this article.
John Arledge - Up Pops Arledge (1932) 🇺🇸
Johnny Arledge, who strode into favor on "Daddy Long Legs," is the cause of all those ah's and oh's.
Al Jennings — The Man Who Came Back (1918) 🇺🇸
His name is Al Jennings, and the famous story of his struggles against society, as a train and bank robber, is now to be told on the screen.
Lady Tsen Mei — A Chinese Doll (1919) 🇺🇸
A largely fictionalized account of the early years and career of actress and vaudeville artist Lady Tsen Mei.
Justine Johnstone — In Spite of Her Beauty (1921) 🇺🇸
Success of a sort came to Justine Johnstone easily, but she insisted on working hard and being more than a famous beauty.
Erich Von Stroheim Plays Aladdin… (1926) 🇺🇸
… and picks the comparatively unknown Fay Wray for the leading feminine role in his new film, The Wedding March, thereby bringing a miracle into her hitherto unexciting life.
Victor Varconi — A Man Who Kept His Head (1926) 🇺🇸
Victor Varconi did not run away to go onto the stage, nor has he at any critical point in his career allowed himself to be carried away by emotion. He has won success by reasoning things out.
Jane Winton — Hardly The Same Girl! (1930) 🇺🇸
Jane Winton has grown up into a new person since Picture Play's first interview with a slip of a "Follies" girl just learning her way about the studio.
Warner Baxter — As He Is (1930) 🇺🇸
A friendly microscope is focused on the character and career of Mr. Baxter, with some little-known facts revealed for the first time.
What is Vitaphone? (1926) 🇺🇸
A calm analysis of the screen world's latest mechanical discovery.
Myrna Loy — Myrna, Are You Real? (1926) 🇺🇸
Is Myrna Loy's bizarre personality a pose, a mere figment of her highly developed imagination, or is she actually the strange, fantastic being that she appears to be?
Buck Jones — The Simple Life for Buck! (1926) 🇺🇸
Provided you think that cow-punching, bronco-busting, and taming belligerent Mexicans is simple! Not to mention dare-devil movie stunts. But it all seems simple to Buck Jones, and that's the life he loves.
Walter Pidgeon — Presenting Mr. Pidgeon (1926) 🇺🇸
Walter Pidgeon, one of the most attractive of the newer leading men, is known in Hollywood as a "comer."
Jack Mulhall — Discovered (1926) 🇺🇸
Though Jack has been a popular leading man for a long time, producers are only just beginning to realize his full value — and they mean to make good use of it.
Clive Brook — Clive Without an Angle (1926) 🇺🇸
Just a simple, everyday chat with Clive Brook.
Ford Sterling — A Contradictory Comedian (1926) 🇺🇸
The career of Ford Sterling, one-time "Keystone Kop," offers an interesting study in contrasts. Known to the world as a clown, he has devoted himself in private life to a variety of scientific and cultural pursuits.
