Vintage Movie Resources
Ned Sparks — How to Act Without Moving a Muscle (1938) 🇺🇸
Emotional Ned Sparks gives aspiring actors some hints on how to be a successful actor and still save wear and tear. Today: The emotions Rage, Passion, Joy, Gratification, Defiance.
Ned Sparks — The Man from Dead Pan Alley (1935) 🇺🇸
Ned Sparks, professional grouch, tells on himself.
Franklin Pangborn — Singing Lesson (1939) 🇺🇸
Franklin Pangborn is a man of many talents. Besides being featured in “Topper Takes a Trip” he finds time for cultural pursuits.
Ray Milland — The Lost Weekend (1945) 🇺🇸
Ray Milland didn’t enjoy making “The Lost Weekend.” No one would have; no one with any sensitivity, that is.
Keystone Cops — Back On The Beat Again (1931) 🇺🇸
The Keystone Cops had a re-union in Hollywood the other day, making the two-reeler “Stout Hearts and Willing Hands.”
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.
James Cagney and Allen Jenkins — Two “Toughs” from the Chorus (1934) 🇺🇸
They began — together — as chorus boys!
Eskimo — The Story of “Igloo” (1932) 🇺🇸
The actual account of the filming of a grim drama in the Far North.
Leon Errol — The Fatal Errol (1938) 🇺🇸
Even though he is the star of a series of RKO-Radio short comedies, Leon Errol has human weaknesses like the rest of us.
Lana Turner — She Won In A Walk (1938) 🇺🇸
All that pretty, seventeen-year-old Lana Turner had to do to convince Producer Mervyn LeRoy out at Warner Brothers Studios that she was top-notch movie star material was to “walk right in, turn around, and walk right out again.”
“Spankings Soothe The Soul” Says Bette Davis (1938) 🇺🇸
“Oh, go jump in the lake!’ shrieked Bette, “I probably had a childhood far more happy than the average, but I wouldn’t go through that again for anything on earth!”
How to Behave On Christmas (1938) 🇺🇸
Here are some helpful hints which, if carefully observed, will carry you safely through the social emergencies of the holiday season.
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.
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.
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.
John Wayne, Richard Cromwell, Lewis Ayres — 3 Boys Who Won (1932) 🇺🇸
John Wayne, Richard Cromwell and Lewis Ayres all had a tough time getting their first screen opportunities.
Kay Francis — Working Girl (1932) 🇺🇸
Broadway knew Kay Francis as a girl who lived for a laugh but Hollywood has transformed her.
The Mystery of William Powell — Part II (1932) 🇺🇸
How the popular actor gained his dramatic training, how he won the help of Leo Dietrichstein and how he came to motion pictures.
Life Begins at 50 (1935) 🇺🇸
Is it too late to attempt a career at 50? Of course not. These troupers prove it isn't: Mrs Patrick Campbell, Henrietta Crosman, W. C. Fields, Guy Kibbee, May Robson, Alison Skipworth, Sir Guy Standing, Helen Westley.
George Zucco (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — He was brought to New York to play Disraeli in “Victoria Regina” with Helen Hayes, came to California for a vacation, got an opportunity to play in pictures, and has been in Hollywood ever since.
Robert Young (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Robert Young held a wide variety of jobs before settling down to a career of acting. He was a drug clerk, reporter, building and loan salesman, and bank clerk.
Dame May Whitty (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Star of the British stage for more than fifty years, Dame May Whitty came to Hollywood to make her sound film debut in Night Must Fall.
Cora Witherspoon (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Miss Witherspoon made her first screen appearance in “Peacherino,” following in “Quality Street,” with Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone.