Vintage Movie Resources

The Art of John Barrymore (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 13, 2024

The Art of John Barrymore (1925) 🇬🇧

The Author of this series has chosen his subjects with great deliberation, taking only those stars whose work seems to him a permanent and essential contribution to the art of the screen.

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Lloyd Hughes — The Flapper’s Favourite (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 13, 2024

Lloyd Hughes — The Flapper’s Favourite (1925)

De Sola, the character expert, finds the face of this young screen actor makes its special appeal to the less mature element amongst movie audiences.

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Anna May Wong — A Chinese Puzzle (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 12, 2024

Anna May Wong — A Chinese Puzzle (1925) 🇬🇧

A Chinese Puzzle — The description suits Anna May Wong to a T.

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The Art of Adolphe Menjou (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 12, 2024

The Art of Adolphe Menjou (1925) 🇬🇧

The author of this series has chosen his subjects with great deliberation, taking only those stars whose work seems to him a permanent and essential contribution to the art of the screen.

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The Art of Alla Nazimova (1925) | www.vintoz.com
January 27, 2024

The Art of Alla Nazimova (1925) 🇬🇧

In the following series of studies the author has chosen his subjects with great deliberation, taking only those stars whose work seems to him a permanent and essential contribution to the art of the screen. He has tried to reduce effects to causes, and to discover in each of his subjects the characteristic quality that underlies success.

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Jaque Catelain — A Favourite from France (1924) | www.vintoz.com
October 05, 2023

Jaque Catelain — A Favourite from France (1924) 🇬🇧

Jaque Catelain is a favourite everywhere.

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J. Gordon Edwards — Directors I Have Met (1923) | www.vintoz.com
September 15, 2023

J. Gordon Edwards — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧

When William Fox decided to become a film producer, he looked around for efficient helpers and in the manager, or producing director of his stock company, found the man who was to play a most important role in the history of Fox Films.

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September 15, 2023

John Robertson — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧

John Robertson, who has directed some of the best of American pictures, is a great enthusiast where England is concerned.

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Herbert Brenon — Directors I Have Met (1923) | www.vintoz.com
September 12, 2023

Herbert Brenon — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧

Herbert Brenon holds the record for being the first director of American pictures of leading rank, who came from across the sea.

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Elmer Clifton — Directors I Have Met (1923) | www.vintoz.com
September 08, 2023

Elmer Clifton — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧

Elmer Clifton has been in the picture game for nearly nine years, and has always been known as a clever director, but his association with D. W. Griffith made a great many people think that his cleverness was due largely to the latter fact.

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James Cruze | www.vintoz.com
September 08, 2023

James Cruze — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧

From the hero of “The Million Dollar Mystery” to the director of a million-dollar movie is quite an accomplishment. And James Cruze, who put on “The Covered Wagon” for Paramount, made the step in a little less than ten years.

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Frederick Sullivan (Frederic Richard Sullivan) (1872–1937) | www.vintoz.com
September 07, 2023

Frederic Sullivan-Londoner — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧

This is the story of one of the many Englishmen who have made good in pictures and on the stage.

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Rex Ingram — Directors I Have Met (1923) | www.vintoz.com
September 07, 2023

Rex Ingram — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧

Rex Ingram was born in Dublin, educated at the University, and destined for the Bar. Unfortunately for his family’s happiness, he decided that his career was art, and so ran away and came to America.

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Allan Dwan (1920) | www.vintoz.com
September 07, 2023

Allan Dwan — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧

Most of us would be content with one perfectly good vocation; Allan Dwan has at least three at his fingertips, not to mention five or six more at which he could probably make a living, if he had to do so.

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Frank Lloyd (1925) | www.vintoz.com
September 07, 2023

Frank Lloyd — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧

The first of a new series dealing with the personalities of the men behind the megaphone.

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Millard Webb — Directors I Have Met (1924) 🇬🇧
September 07, 2023

Millard Webb — Directors I Have Met (1924) 🇬🇧

Hollywood’s Baby Director” is the unofficial title bestowed upon Millard Webb, whose years of experience of this world number only twenty-nine.

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Al Christie (1920) | www.vintoz.com
September 04, 2023

Al Christie — Directors I Have Met (1924) 🇬🇧

Al Christie is the globe trotter of producers but when he is in the States, he prefers Hollywood.

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Harold M. Shaw (Harold Marvin Shaw) (1877–1926) | www.vintoz.com
September 04, 2023

Harold Shaw — Directors I Have Met (1924) 🇬🇧

I had always thought that Harold Shaw was an Englishman, even though he was a member of the Old Edison Company some fifteen years ago.

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Linden Travers — Lovely Linden (1937) | www.vintoz.com
June 03, 2023

Linden Travers — Lovely Linden (1937) 🇬🇧

Lovely Linden — Who is on the road to stardom.

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Gertrude Michael — Star Who Breaks the Rules (1937) | www.vintoz.com
June 03, 2023

Gertrude Michael — Star Who Breaks the Rules (1937) 🇬🇧

That's Gertrude Michael, who has achieved success in defiance of all the Hollywood traditions. Gertrude is in England to star for Associated British pictures.

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Gregory Ratoff — Quadruple-Threat Man of the Movies (1937) | www.vintoz.com
June 03, 2023

Gregory Ratoff — Quadruple-Threat Man of the Movies (1937) 🇬🇧

Gregory Ratoff, who does such a magnificent job of distorting the English language, shows a mastery of many things.

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Gail Patrick — Small Town Girl Makes Good (1937) | www.vintoz.com
June 03, 2023

Gail Patrick — Small Town Girl Makes Good (1937) 🇬🇧

Patrick has been turning in good performances, mostly as the "other woman" or something similarly unsympathetic, in a number of pictures in the last year or two without getting a real break. Her luck is changing now, however, and, well, anyway, here's her story.

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Andrea Leeds — The Star with a Film-Story Life (1937) | www.vintoz.com
June 03, 2023

Andrea Leeds — The Star with a Film-Story Life (1937) 🇬🇧

Andrea Leeds who is playing the lead in Samuel Goldwyn's £400,000 production, The Goldwyn Follies, has had a meteoric career. Her life story, of which a film may shortly be made, reads like fiction in its colourful adventurousness.

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Gladys George — The Screen's Shady Lady (1937) | www.vintoz.com
June 03, 2023

Gladys George — The Screen's Shady Lady (1937) 🇬🇧

"Be good, sweet maid," they used to say, but Gladys George is scaling the screen heights by being bad.

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