Vintage Movie Resources

What of Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, and Boris Karloff, prime portrayers of horrific characters? What are they like, what do they think of their abnormal rôles, and what have been their experiences? This joint interview tells you all you want to know.

Hilarious “Scarface” spoof from 1932

Ernst Lubitsch is more colorful than the stars he directs! Vintage ads by Genevieve Tobin and Cary Grant (“Cheramy — It's the perfume I never can forget.”)

Meet Mitchell Leisen, who has bossed more famous women around than any other man in history and still retains a sense of humor.

British author E. G. Cousins wrote this Warner Oland article in 1936. As always with texts from this period, persons with Asian ethnicity are referred to in rather a clichéd manner. We do believe that the text offers good insight and that it is worth to publish it.

“Me,” said Spencer Tracy, “I pay for what I get. I also get what I pay for. Every sorrow in my life has had its corresponding joy. Every loss has had its profit. My life, like everybody else’s, I guess, is a matter of debit and credit.”

If you want to know why Thin Man Bill is a hero even to his movie wives, read this outrageously amusing interview. The interview also answers the question where James Bond got his martini recipe from.

Screenland Magazine pays tribute to upcoming actress and Luxables spokeswoman Ida Lupino.

Illustrator H. T. Elmo enlightens us about Hollywood star's capabilities and accomplishments.

If you’re howling at Abbott and Costello — and who isn’t? — have another laugh with the boys right now, in the funniest interview ever given by these clowns in clover.

It’s a strange love story that brings together the stars of that widely discussed film, “Of Human Bondage.”

Robert Armstrong Speaks his Mind about Talking Pictures.

As 1947 drew to a close, Gregory Peck grew a black beard, donned the frock coat Clark Gable wore in “Gone With The Wind”, and set about driving Laraine Day crazy in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Seattle, and Los Angeles. Greg was good at it, and Laraine went out of her mind prettily, to the applause of packed houses.

For a gent who has been in Hollywood only a short time, Gregory Peck is doing all right.

The article is spiced with vintage ads of Lana Turner, Ann Sheridan and Joan Blondell.

Hollywood is accustomed to storms. They bob up at the slightest provocation, or with none at all, and range from tempests in teapots to knock-em-down and drag-em-out affairs involving fisticuffs and front-page publicity.

That overworked word “colossal” for a movie is entirely applicable in this case. The story is fantastic, including prehistoric animals and strange tribes. The central figure is King Kong, a tremendous ape; so large that when Fay Wray is held in one of his huge paws she looks like a very tiny doll.

George Sanders may be the only actor extant who can be called good, “bad,” and completely indifferent.