Vintage Movie Resources
We Nominate for Stardom — Lyle Talbot (1932) 🇺🇸
His parents died when he was in his teens and Lyle was adopted by his grandmother; his legal name became Lyle Hollywood. But Lyle knew that no one would believe it, so he changed it to “Talbot.”
We Nominate for Stardom — Katharine Hepburn (1932) 🇺🇸
She came to the screen from New York society and the stage — and made the biggest overnight sensation of anyone since Dietrich.
We Nominate for Stardom — John Warburton (1933) 🇺🇸
He has been in America so long (eight years) that he talks like an American and wants to be one.
We Nominate for Stardom — Miriam Jordan (1933) 🇺🇸
Miriam Jordan got her start in theatrical life by the familiar route of a beauty contest.
We Nominate for Stardom — Tom Brown (1933) 🇺🇸
Tom has been on the stage since he was eighteen months old. When he was ten, he appeared in “Is Zat So?”
We Nominate for Stardom — Ruby Keeler (1933) 🇺🇸
She doesn’t look as if she’d ever have camera-fright, does she?
We Nominate for Stardom — Glenda Farrell (1933) 🇺🇸
She can play any sort of part from cuddly young sweethearts to hardened ladies of the evening.
We Nominate for Stardom — Buster Crabbe (1933) 🇺🇸
Buster Crabbe, winner of two Olympic championships, holder of five world swimming records and star of King of the Jungle.
We Nominate for Stardom — George Brent (1932) 🇺🇸
George Brent is only about a half-inch away from screen stardom.
We Nominate for Stardom — Tala Birell (1932) 🇺🇸
Tala is a mystery girl. Universal has had her under contract for almost a year, and yet you have never seen her on the screen. But you soon will.
Walter Brennan — Up From the Bottom (1937) 🇺🇸
You can’t tell Walter Brennan how to become a star.
We Nominate for Stardom — Randolph Scott (1932) 🇺🇸
When Paramount signed up Randolph, there was a rumor that he was to take Gary Cooper’s place.
We Nominate for Stardom — Ann Dvorak (1932) 🇺🇸
Leslie Fenton knew what he was doing when he eloped with Ann. For she is the first brunette sensation in years.
Melville Cooper — The Wrong Star (1937) 🇬🇧
Melville Cooper wishes that the sight-seeing bus line which passes by his doorway in Brentwood would straighten out the matter of Garbo’s right address.
Carole Lombard — Hardly a Woman of Stone (1932) 🇺🇸
A woman of stone? Well, hardly! Carole’s beauty may be the kind that sculptors dream about, but beyond those classical lines there’s a heart working overtime.
Bathing Beauties — What Has Become of the Famous Sennett Beauties? (1932) 🇺🇸
What the Follies girls are to Broadway, the Sennett bathing beauties once were to Hollywood. A few have risen to stardom. But most of them have vanished completely.
Future Favorites — Bill Brady (1937) 🇺🇸
It is quite usual for a boy’s voice to dive from choir soprano to basso profundo at a certain tender age… It is almost unheard of for a full-grown man’s voice to change from a lusty baritone to a lyric tenor.
Future Favorites — Armida (1937) 🇺🇸
A membership in that select Hollywood society of actors and actresses who have inherited their talents from their parents belongs to the diminutive Mexican pepper-pot, the vivacious Armida.
Future Favorites — James Ellison (1937) 🇺🇸
James Ellison is one of the few western stars to leave those ranks for leads in top-rating feature productions.
Future Favorites — John King (1937) 🇺🇸
Ben Bernie and Zeppo Marx are responsible for this young man’s start in the theatrical world...
Future Favorites — Patric Knowles (1937) 🇺🇸
Being one of Hollywood’s young actors who is more than a 4-to-1 bet to reach the top rung of movieland’s ladder of fame isn’t enough for Patric Knowles...
Future Favorites — Barbara Roberts (1937) 🇺🇸
Resuming a career that was interrupted four years ago when she fell in love, blonde Barbara Roberts today is on her way to celluloid fame.
Future Favorites — Melville Cooper (1937) 🇺🇸
Melville Cooper faced obscurity when a studio gave him only eighteen lines to speak in two years.
Future Favorites — William Lundigan (1937) 🇺🇸
Instead of going to the movies he made them come to him. Instead of hammering at the gates of casting-offices he projected his voice and personality over the radio.