Vintage Movie Resources

February 08, 2022

Future Favorites — Rose Stradner (1938) 🇺🇸

Rose Stradner, latest Hollywood importation from the European stage, is one of the few people from Austria who, without making the effort, has been able to retain the charm and gaiety of Vienna in her attitude and speech.

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February 08, 2022

Future Favorites — Rita Johnson (1937) 🇺🇸

Rita Johnson’s high-school dramatic coach told her that she would never become an actress.

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February 08, 2022

Future Favorites — Maurice Black (1938) 🇺🇸

Ten years ago Maurice (Blackie) Black was a red-nosed comic in Raymond Hitchcock’s Hitchy Koo revues and laying ‘em in the aisles according to the boys and girls who wrote rave pieces about this Broadway hit show...

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Bob Hope 1938 | www.vintoz.com
February 07, 2022

Bob Hope — Where There’s Life There’s Hope (1935) 🇺🇸

Bob Hope is hailed as radio’s comedy discovery of 1936.

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Clarence Muse (1938) | www.vintoz.com
February 07, 2022

Clarence Muse — Singer of His People (1932) 🇺🇸

Clarence Muse, famed singer and actor, from the 1920s onwards.

In the 1930's, African Americans were not widely featured in the mainstream press, and we believe that this piece provides interesting insights.

Note: This text was published in 1932 and some readers might find some of the writing offensive.

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February 06, 2022

Illustrator Bert Levy (1929) 🇺🇸

Illustrations by Bert Levy (1929)

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Laurel and Hardy with their Language Instructors | www.vintoz.com
February 05, 2022

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy — The Seriousness of Being Funny in Four Languages (1930) 🇺🇸

Amusing piece in from the days before movies were dubbed into other languages. Comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy struggle to make French, Spanish and German versions of “Brats.”

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Avonne Taylor | www.vintoz.com
February 05, 2022

Girls from the “Follies” Who’ve Made Good on the Screen (1932) 🇺🇸

Did you know that nearly a hundred of the Ziegfeld Follies' girls have made good on the screen?

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Victor Schertzinger 1929 | www.vintoz.com
February 05, 2022

Victor Schertzinger — Composer and Director (1929) 🇺🇸

Victor Schertzinger — Composer and Director

 

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Victor Schertzinger 1929 | www.vintoz.com
February 05, 2022

Stories About the Notables of Films — Rise of Victor Schertzinger as Director Covers Ten Years Unmarred by Failure (1927) 🇺🇸

He has directed sixty-eight feature pictures without having ever been idle a month — started with Ince at $300 a week under contract.

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Mack Sennett 1930 | www.vintoz.com
February 05, 2022

Adventures in Interviewing (1930) 🇺🇸

Further stories about Hollywood and its Famous Folk — Mack Sennett, Monte Blue, von Sternberg and others.

 

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Clarence Muse, DeWitt Jennings, Oscar Apfel | www.vintoz.com
February 03, 2022

Bit Players — You Know Their Faces But Not Their Names (1934) 🇬🇧

An overdue tribute to the unsung players who are the real backbone of the screen.

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Nigel Bruce and Claudette Colbert | www.vintoz.com
February 03, 2022

Nigel Bruce — The Actor’s Promised Land (1936) 🇬🇧

It’s fashionable to be superior about Hollywood, but here’s one screen player who likes the life in the film city and doesn’t care who knows it.

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George E. Stone | www.vintoz.com
February 02, 2022

The Unfamous of Hollywood — George E. Stone — Out of Horror into Happiness (1934) 🇺🇸

You have seen him in half-a-hundred screen thrillers — but never in one which boasted a story more dramatic than that of his own life!

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Gilmor Brown | www.vintoz.com
February 02, 2022

The Unfamous of Hollywood — Gilmor Brown — The Star-Maker of Hollywood (1934) 🇺🇸

Gilmor Brown — founder and directing head of the Pasadena Community Playhouse.

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Elmer G. Dyer 1931 | www.vintoz.com
February 02, 2022

The Unfamous of Hollywood — Elmer Dyer — Lens On Wings (1934) 🇺🇸

Elmer Dyer is a cameraman. He shot Hell’s Angels and Dawn Patrol. From the air.

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George Hurrell | www.vintoz.com
February 02, 2022

The Unfamous of Hollywood — George Hurrell — He Acts While You Pose (1934) 🇺🇸

You have no doubt seen hundreds of Hurrell’s photographs in the rotogravures of magazines and Sunday supplements.

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Billy Hill | www.vintoz.com
February 02, 2022

The Unfamous of Hollywood — Billy Hill — He Wrote “The Last Roundup” (1934) 🇺🇸

You know him as composer of The Last Roundup, the song which has captivated continents.

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Sally Rand | www.vintoz.com
February 02, 2022

The Unfamous of Hollywood — Sally Rand — A Fan Made Her Famous (1934) 🇺🇸

Sally Rand, beauteous blond exponent of the fan dance whose nude terpsichory, save for a protective pair of feather fans, recently got her into plenty of legal difficulties in Chicago, New York and other key cities.

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Murray Spivack | www.vintoz.com
February 02, 2022

The Unfamous of Hollywood — Murray Spivack — The Noisiest Man Alive (1934) 🇺🇸

Making a noise like a canary is a comparatively simple procedure; but when you tackle thirty-ton monsters of seven million years ago you can take it from me you’re delving into the realm of difficult bedlam!

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Bebe Daniels and Pauline Gallagher | www.vintoz.com
February 02, 2022

The Unfamous of Hollywood — Bebe Daniels and Pauline Gallagher — They Run a Red, White and Blue Shop (1934) 🇺🇸

Careers for women? Not one, but two or three — with a home and children on the side — is the latest Hollywood custom.

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Natalie Bucknell | www.vintoz.vom
February 02, 2022

The Unfamous of Hollywood — Natalie Bucknell — From Secret Service to Studios (1934) 🇺🇸

Natalie Bucknell bosses the best research department in Hollywood — that of M-G-M. If they need to photograph a Swedish fire-plug, a mule cart in Barcelona, or the third left eyelash of the Venus de Milo, Natalie is the girl who tells them how to do it and supplies a photo and description of the actual object.

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Howard Dietz | www.vintoz.com
February 02, 2022

The Unfamous of Hollywood — Howard Dietz — He Wanted a Two Weeks’ Job (1934) 🇺🇸

Howard Dietz — Supervisor of the advertising and publicity departments at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Wallace Beery, Frank Clarke, Paul Mantz | www.vintoz.com
February 01, 2022

Paul Mantz — Flying the Honeymoon Express (1935) 🇺🇸

Stunt pilot Paul Mantz has piloted many stars to the altar, yet he rarely knows their names because he never sees a motion picture.

 

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