Vintage Movie Resources
Suzanne Larson (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Suzanne Larson made her debut at the Palace Theatre at the age of 11, without having had any voice training.
Miliza Korjus (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Miliza Korjus is one of the many distinguished singers under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Guy Kibbee (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Guy Kibbee has been connected with the theatre for more than thirty years.
Allan Jones (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — In The Firefly, M-G-M’s adaptation of the famous operetta, he stands on the threshold of screen stardom, with probably the most spectacular role that ever fell to a film singer.
Rita Johnson (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — After making good on the New York stage, Rita decided to fill in time between plays by radio appearances. Soon she was playing in radio serials, on comedy broadcasts, and had roles in “The March of Time.”
Betty Jaynes (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Betty Jaynes, the child singer who astounded the musical world when she appeared with Martinelli in “La Boheme” at the Chicago City Opera, easily captured the hearts of Hollywood’s screen folk
Josephine Hutchinson (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — One of Josephine Hutchinson’s earliest memories is seeing her mother in a long black gown with an ostrich feather fan, dancing with a tall dark man in evening clothes.
William Henry (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — In 1927 he made his first trip to the Hawaiian Islands, where he attended Punaho College at Honolulu for a term. His foster-brother, Duke Kahanamoku, taught him the Hawaiian language, as well as how to ride out-rigger canoes and surf boards.
Ted Healy (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Healy was the originator of “stooges” in the theatre.
Sir Cedric Hardwicke (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Sir Cedric Hardwicke's first stage appearance was at the Lyceum Theatre in 1912 when he played the role of Brother John through the run of “The Man and the Woman.”
Virginia Grey (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Virginia Grey is a Hollywood girl, second generation of picture makers, for her father was Ray Grey, comedy director.
Charley Grapewin (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Circus acrobat, actor, novelist, playwright and now character actor of the screen, Charley Grapewin’s career has been an active one. After thirty-seven years of vaudeville and the dramatic stage, he has found added fame in a new field.
Charles Igor Gorin (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Charles Igor Gorin has sung in the operas of Bucharest, Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, Milan and New York.
William Geery (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — When William Geery was a student, he swept and cleaned college buildings at night, to earn his way through school. He sang as he swept because he was afraid when working alone in the darkened halls.
Judy Garland (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Judy Garland was born with the theatre in her veins.
Reginald Gardiner (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The fact that his home is his wardrobe trunk couples neatly with the information that Reginald Gardiner delighted in boyhood in trying on old clothes that he unearthed in the attic.
Betty Furness (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Betty Furness has not only risen to screen fame, but is acknowledged as one of the pace-setters in women’s fashions.
Vivien Fay (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Vivien Fay has been dancing since she can remember, and at no time during a long, sometimes tedious and always exacting apprenticeship, can she recall a time when she would have been happy doing anything else.
Cliff Edwards (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Even in the days when he associated Hawaii only with canned pineapples, Cliff Edwards played the ukelele. His first really big song hit was “Japanese Sandman.”
Buddy Ebsen (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — When Buddy Ebsen was thirteen years old, he gave up dancing lessons because he thought they were “sissified.”
Louis Durst (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Following in the path that was broken by Robert Taylor, Louis Durst abandoned a medical career to star in motion pictures,.
Melvyn Douglas (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — His parents wanted him to study law. He wanted to be a poet. So he compromised by becoming an actor.
Henry Daniell (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — A veteran of the World War in the service of the British Army, a world-traveler and gay trouper, Henry Daniell gathered his experience for the stage from life and brought it to the screen.