Vintage Movie Resources

Paulette Goddard | www.vintoz.com
February 14, 2022

Paulette Goddard — How Hollywood Came to the University (1934) 🇺🇸

Pretty? Yes! Young? Of course! But Charlie Chaplin’s leading lady, Paulette Goddard, is much more than merely pretty and young. Read this remarkable story, revealing a new side of the screen world.

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Walter Connolly (1934) | www.vintoz.com
January 25, 2022

Walter Connolly — Home’s Where His Art Is! (1934) 🇺🇸

Hollywood or Broadway, it’s all the same to Walter Connolly if his roles are good.

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Basil Rathbone | www.vintoz.com
January 22, 2022

Basil Rathbone — Once A Villain (1937) 🇺🇸

Basil has made people hate him so thoroughly they like him tremendously on the screen.

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January 22, 2022

Wendy Barrie — Hongkong’s Contribution (1935) 🇺🇸

Hong Kong-born Wendy Barrie is a glorious madcap, and a welcome newcomer to pictures.

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Jean Arthur | www.vintoz.com
January 21, 2022

Jean Arthur — Growing Up (1930) 🇺🇸

Jean Arthur is on the High Road to Stardom.

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January 11, 2022

W. S. Van Dyke — Hollywood’s Most Versatile Director (1935) 🇺🇸

“Let Van Dyke do it!” is now more or less accepted as a slogan at the studio where he is under contract.

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January 11, 2022

Eskimo — The Story of “Igloo” (1932) 🇺🇸

The actual account of the filming of a grim drama in the Far North.

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Edward Arnold | www.vintoz.com
January 11, 2022

Edward Arnold’s 10 Rules for Romance (1936) 🇺🇸

The amazing difference between Edward Arnold’s marriage and most Hollywood marriages was shown to us by a little thing that happened the last time we visited Eddie’s white hilltop home in Beverly Hills.

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Guy Standing | www.vintoz.com
January 11, 2022

Sir Guy Standing — “I’m Sixty — But What of It?” (1936) 🇺🇸

Sixty? If at sixty I can have half the joy and savour out of life that Sir Guy Standing culls each day I shall count myself the luckiest man he knows.

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January 11, 2022

Carole Lombard — Lombard Unlimited! (1929) 🇺🇸

“How old are you?” Cecil B. DeMille asked. “Fourteen,” replied Carol. “Go home and grow up. Then come back and see me,” said C.B. “Yes, Mr. DeMille,” said Carol, unconscious of the fact that her answer was to go down in history as one of the by-words of the great motion picture industry.

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Nat Pendleton | www.vintoz.com
January 04, 2022

Nat Pendleton — He Was Smart to Play Dumb (1936) 🇺🇸

I’d expected a hard-boiled mug you wouldn’t want to meet on a dark night; a “deeze, dem, and dose” conversationalist, and a guy who couldn’t count to twelve except on a pair of dice.

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Hugh Herbert — Picture Stealer No. 1 (1936) | www.vintoz.com
January 04, 2022

Hugh Herbert — Picture Stealer No. 1 (1936) 🇺🇸

So he took the somewhat less than 50,000 dollars and the three lines of dialogue — and this is what he did with them.

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January 04, 2022

Joel McCrea — Joel and the Glamor Girls (1936) 🇺🇸

The producers first took an active interest in the Joel McCrea case when they discovered that he was a pretty kisser.

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January 04, 2022

Victor McLaglen — From Bagdad to Beverly Hills (1936) 🇺🇸

The exciting real-life adventures of Victor McLaglen, told at last.

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Fred Astaire — Ten Lives — All Secret! (1936) 🇺🇸
January 04, 2022

Fred Astaire — Ten Lives — All Secret! (1936) 🇺🇸

Fred Astaire has been reading others’ views of his ‘”secret” life and decides to set forth a few ideas of his own on the subject.

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Peter Lorre (László Löwenstein) (1904–1964) | www.vintoz.com
January 04, 2022

Peter Lorre — Monarch of Menace (1936) 🇺🇸

Peter Lorre tells how a mere accident made him famous as the screen’s craftiest “bad man”.

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Norman Taurog — He Was a Kid Himself! (1932) | www.vintoz.com
December 28, 2021

Norman Taurog — He Was a Kid Himself! (1932) 🇺🇸

And he hasn’t forgotten it. That’s why Norman Taurog has achieved such wonders in directing child actors.

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Charlie Ruggles | www.vintoz.com
December 28, 2021

Charlie Ruggles — He was “Ruggles of Red-Eye” (1931) 🇺🇸

Does the screen public want its favorites to be versatile? Charlie Ruggles is going to find out. For the past two years he has played nothing but “drunk” roles. Now, in his first starring picture, “Girl Habit,” he doesn’t take a single drink.

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Ernst Lubitsch (1935) | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Ernst Lubitsch — First Wit of the Films! (1935) 🇺🇸

Ernst Lubitsch is more colorful than the stars he directs! Vintage ads by Genevieve Tobin and Cary Grant (“Cheramy — It's the perfume I never can forget.”)

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Ernst Lubitsch — Portrait of a Director (1932) | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Ernst Lubitsch — Portrait of a Director (1932) 🇺🇸

On the Lubitsch set the most arresting and least important-looking person is a little man with a dark, merrily wicked face, a lank strand of black hair hanging over his right eye, a big cigar rolling restlessly from one side of his mouth to the other.

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Mitchell Leisen with Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray | www.vintoz.com
December 16, 2021

Mitchell Leisen — Hollywood’s Most Colorful Director (1944) 🇺🇸

Meet Mitchell Leisen, who has bossed more famous women around than any other man in history and still retains a sense of humor.

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Mischa Auer | www.vintoz.com
December 14, 2021

What Makes You So Funny, Mischa Auer? (1938) 🇺🇸

Here’s what happened when Mischa, who usually laughs off questions about himself, couldn’t duck some very personal queries.

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William Powell and Myrna Loy | www.vintoz.com
December 14, 2021

The Great William Powell (1936) 🇺🇸

If you want to know why Thin Man Bill is a hero even to his movie wives, read this outrageously amusing interview. The interview also answers the question where James Bond got his martini recipe from.

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December 13, 2021

Tribute to Ida Lupino (1940) 🇺🇸

Screenland Magazine pays tribute to upcoming actress and Luxables spokeswoman Ida Lupino.

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