Vintage Movie Resources
Sidney Franklin (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — A sun tan was the reason for Sidney Franklin becoming a director.
Victor Fleming (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Victor Fleming has the amazing record of being associated with the picture business more than twenty-five years, and more than half of that time as an “ace” director.
Charles Dorian (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The How-I-Made-Good-In-Hollywood-Club has never been successful in enlisting Charley Dorian as a member.
Clarence Brown (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Two degrees in engineering and a successful automobile business lacked the power to keep Clarence Brown out of the theater as one of its major craftsmen.
Edward Buzzell (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Eddie Buzzell, as a boy in high school, discovered that he had mannerisms that made people laugh. So he gave up the idea of becoming an engineer and set about becoming a comedian.
Frank Borzage (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Watching Frank Borzage direct a picture, the novice is likely to believe that it is easy work.
George Fitzmaurice (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — George Fitzmaurice received his education in private schools and academies in Paris, where he was born on February 13.
George Cukor (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Although he knew absolutely nothing about theatrical technique, George Cukor answered a newspaper ad for an assistant stage manager for the Chicago company of The Better ‘Ole, and sold himself.
Jack Conway (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — As an actor on the stage and screen, Jack Conway served a profitable apprenticeship to become one of Hollywood’s highly successful directors.
Dorothy Arzner (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The only woman director in motion pictures, Dorothy Arzner, under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, first aspired to a medical career.
C. Aubrey Smith — Three Score Years and Ten (1935) 🇺🇸
C. Aubrey Smith looks back on a full and dramatic life.
Anna May Wong (黃柳霜) — East Meets West (1938) 🇺🇸
Anna May Wong, back on the screen after an absence of several years, discusses her native land.
Myrna Loy — Working Girl (1934) 🇺🇸
Exotic Myrna Loy keeps a sane head on those pretty shoulders.
Fernand Gravet — Parisian Playboy (1938) 🇺🇸
Something about a young man who takes his play as well as his work seriously.
Allen Jenkins — Dead-Pan Wow (1934) 🇺🇸
Allen Jenkins is the rising master of comedy who doesn’t hesitate to steal a scene from the best of them. And he doesn’t hand out dignified interviews.
Nat Pendleton — He Was Smart to Play Dumb (1936) 🇺🇸
I’d expected a hard-boiled mug you wouldn’t want to meet on a dark night; a “deeze, dem, and dose” conversationalist, and a guy who couldn’t count to twelve except on a pair of dice.
Hugh Herbert — Picture Stealer No. 1 (1936) 🇺🇸
So he took the somewhat less than 50,000 dollars and the three lines of dialogue — and this is what he did with them.
Blore, Simpson, Treacher — Butlers Are Only Skin Deep (1936) 🇺🇸
Three famous screen gentlemen’s “gentlemen” Eric Blore, Ivan Simpson and Arthur Treacher, reveal their real selves.
Joel McCrea — Joel and the Glamor Girls (1936) 🇺🇸
The producers first took an active interest in the Joel McCrea case when they discovered that he was a pretty kisser.
Victor McLaglen — From Bagdad to Beverly Hills (1936) 🇺🇸
The exciting real-life adventures of Victor McLaglen, told at last.
Fred Astaire — Ten Lives — All Secret! (1936) 🇺🇸
Fred Astaire has been reading others’ views of his ‘”secret” life and decides to set forth a few ideas of his own on the subject.
El Brendel — Yust a Fearless Feller (1930) 🇺🇸
Meet El Brendel, the comedian with the riotous Swedish dialect which did not come to him by inheritance. For his father was born in Bavaria and his mother is Irish.
Peter Lorre — Monarch of Menace (1936) 🇺🇸
Peter Lorre tells how a mere accident made him famous as the screen’s craftiest “bad man”.