Vintage Movie Resources
Agnes Christine Johnston — Good-Bye, Hollywood! (1930) 🇺🇸
Why one of Hollywood's most successful writers and most popular girls left motion pictures, told by herself
Barbara Stanwyck — Not a Pattern Girl (1931) 🇺🇸
Barbara Stanwyck was fired from her first job selling patterns, so she's never been a pattern girl since!
Claudia Dell — Ex-Follies Girl! (1930) 🇺🇸
Claudia Dell graduates from Ziegfeld glorification to screen stardom
Phillips Holmes — Bachelor of Hearts (1931) 🇺🇸
Phil Holmes, the most sought-after young man in the movies, explains why a screen contract is the only kind he's signing, thank you!
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"
Lloyd Hamilton — A Flyer in Art (1923) 🇺🇸
What happened to Lloyd Hamilton, he of the sad expression and the huge feet, in the presence of Art in the awfully refined Studio of Mr. Griffith.
The Tragedy of Mary Miles Minter (1923) 🇺🇸
The story of the screen child who wasn't allowed to grow up — until a murder lifted her from stunted youth to dazed womanhood.
Edward Everett Horton — Not the Perfect Male, But — (1924) 🇺🇸
Edward Everett Horton took up acting because he thought it would be fun.
William Selig — Col. Seligs Stories of Movie Life (1923) 🇺🇸
Reminiscence, Grave and Gay, of Twenty-Five Years on a Studio Lot.
Dorothea Wieck — Girl with "Uniform" Appeal! (1933) 🇺🇸
Dorothea graduates from Europe to Hollywood, and she's our Wieck-ness now!
Claudette Colbert — Why Claudette Went Gay! (1933) 🇺🇸
La Colbert chooses between types of screen "naughtiness".
ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville — Is it Sad to be Funny? (1933) 🇺🇸
Merrily mournful, gaily grim, the most hilarious comedians seem to wear the longest faces!
Tyrone Power — This Is What I Believe (1946) 🇺🇸
"I think that love and marriage are here to stay, atomic bomb or not!"
Eddie Bracken’s 5-Year Plan (1946) 🇺🇸
There's a lot of difference between a dreamer and a planner. Here's an example, by Bracken, of what planning a life can do for all of you.
Harry Lewis — New Man for Fans (1946) 🇺🇸
The handsome man you see here, lived all of his life right under the noses of producers.
Yvonne DeCarlo — The Beautiful and Blessed (1946) 🇺🇸
Pretty girls are a drug on the market in Hollywood? Don't you believe it! Even a bored reporter sits up at the sight of fresh young beauty, such as Yvonne DeCarlo's.
Dan Duryea — Dan, the Deadly (1945) 🇺🇸
Desperate character, eh? Well, it's disillusioning — in a nice way — to meet up with the real Dan Duryea.
Don DeFore — Stooging for Stardom (1945) 🇺🇸
Sometimes it seems the more regular a guy is, the harder he has to work and the longer he has to wait for success. That's the story of Don DeFore — but now that he has finally arrived, everybody says it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Michael Chekhov — The Man of 1,000 Personalities (1946) 🇺🇸
Meet Michael Chekhov, character actor extraordinary.
Geraldine Fitzgerald — Just Who Is Geraldine? (1946) 🇺🇸
Pixie or prima donna? This unpredictable Fitzgerald gal, far from being the type, is combination of all types.