Vintage Movie Resources
Cecilia Parker (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — She started her motion picture career as an “extra”. She was soon noticed by a casting director and offered a screen test. This test started her on a screen career as the heroine in several Western pictures with George O’Brien, Buck Jones, Ken Maynard and Rex Bell.
Barnett Parker (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — When he was 21, Parker came to the United States, but the World War interrupted his plans to carve a niche for himself in the theater hall of fame.
Reginald Owen (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The theater originally was more an adventure than a profession to Reginald Owen, but now it is both.
Maureen O’Sullivan (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Luck and fate stepped in while she was still in her ‘teens. Director Frank Borzage was in Dublin making exterior scenes for “Song of My Heart” and also was quietly conducting a search for a beautiful Irish girl for an important role in the picture. Maureen, invited to a party which also was attended by Borzage, attracted the attention of the director. He volunteered to give her a screen test.
Edna May Oliver (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — David Copperfield definitely established Edna May as one of the screen’s foremost character actresses.
Dennis O’Keefe (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — O’Keefe is one of the most widely traveled actors in Hollywood.
Edward Norris (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — A scout saw his performance in the play “Doomsday Circus” and reported to Rouben Mamoulian, who was casting “Queen Christina,” and gave him a role.
George Murphy (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — He is the first person to be Eleanor Powell’s dancing partner. They appeared together in the “Melody of 1938,” doing ballroom and comedy dancing.
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Stanley Morner [Dennis Morgan] (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Stanley Morner stepped from a Milwaukee lumber yard to motion pictures. But not all in one stride; from worker in the yard he rose to be a lumber buyer, then stepped before a radio microphone, next into opera and thence into pictures.
Frank Morgan (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Born in New York City, a member of the Wupperman family of Angostura Bitters fame, Frank Morgan changed his name to Morgan when he made his debut in a vaudeville skit.
Joan Mitchell (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Since coming to Hollywood, Miss Mitchell has been more determined to make a success of her career than ever.
Una Merkel (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Una Merkel made her debut in a picture in which she played the sister of Lillian Gish and, at the same time, doubled for her, but the picture was never finished.
Ruby Mercer (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Ruby Mercer realized a childhood ambition when she stepped out on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York
Douglas McPhail (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — When casting was being done for “May-Time,” he was given a bit part. This led to his big “break,” for, while working in the picture, he attracted the attention of Jeanette MacDonald.
Ilona Massey (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Hollywood is the end of the rainbow for Ilona Massey.
Anthony Marlow (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Former longshoreman on the Philadelphia waterfront, welterweight pugilist and newsboy, Anthony Marlow today is under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a singing actor.
Saundra Maazel (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios have brilliant plans for this tiny artist.
Eleanor Lynn (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Winsome Eleanor Lynn always dreamed of becoming a great actress.
Tilly Losch (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography —She was tested for the part of Lotus in “The Good Earth” and was cast. Her work in this picture won her a long-term contract at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Della Lind (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Della Lind, blonde Viennese singer, has the reputation of being truly cosmopolitan. She knows the Continental capitals as the average American girl knows the neighborhood in which she lives.
Mitchell Lewis (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — One of Lewis’ proudest boasts is that he appeared in “Burning Daylight” and other stories of Jack London. In silent days he and Hobart Bosworth were the screen’s principal exponents of London adventure stories.
Priscilla Lawson (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography —Her first screen appearance at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was in “Double Wedding.”