Vintage Movie Resources
Claire Whitney — Claire in the Gloaming (1920) 🇺🇸
Life has not always laid a loving hand upon Claire Whitney
Edith Hallor — The Camaraderie of Edith (1920) 🇺🇸
The silversheet won’t give us Edith Hallor’s beautiful burnished locks, but it will give us her laughing eyes, her spirit of girlishness — and, above all else, her spirit of camaraderie!
Dustin Farnum — To Corsica With “Dusty” (1920) 🇺🇸
“I wasn’t satisfied until I got my navigator’s license. I am my own captain now.”
Ruth Stonehouse — That Stonehouse Youngster (1920) 🇺🇸
Ruth Stonehouse does her share of thinking too — she is not all the elfin spirit — perhaps that’s what makes her so interesting, so fascinating
Kathlyn Williams — Kathlyn of the Golden West (1920) 🇺🇸
One has no doubt about the bigness of Kathlyn Williams
Frankie Mann — An Erstwhile Vampire (1920) 🇺🇸
Frankie Mann’s a little bit of a thing physically; mentally, it’s quite another story.
Marguerite Courtot — Tea for Three (1920) 🇺🇸
Marguerite Courtot is another young “old star”
Lucille Carlisle — An Average Girl (1922) 🇺🇸
“Tell me, Miss Carlisle, do you think comedy training is valuable to a girl who desires to become a dramatic actress?”
Sidney Drew — Film Humor More Than Making Funny Faces (1918) 🇺🇸
The human note, not monkey-shines, makes the strongest, most lasting appeal
Hollywood Draws the Line (1929) 🇺🇸
“What length films?” is the question that divides Hollywood into two castes, the feature-length players and the two-reelers, and seldom is the social gap crossed. A logical explanation of the situation is given in this article.
The Celluloid Drama in Japan (1918) 🇺🇸
They do things differently in the Land of the Rising Sun
Elsie Ferguson — Advantages of the Screen Over the Stage (1918) 🇺🇸
A comparison and a prophecy with some comments by the way
Edna Goodrich — The Importance of Being Well-Dressed (1918) 🇺🇸
Some reasons why correct costuming is an aid to art
Shirley Mason — The Evolution of a Star (1918) 🇺🇸
How one ambitious little girl was made over for the movies
Dave Butler — Fat Boy, (Ring Bearer) — Tight Pants — (1919) 🇺🇸
David Butler is creating an unusual line of parts, all his own.
Texas Guinan — Guinan of the Guns (1919) 🇺🇸
Texas Guinan, having cut her teeth on a six-shooter, has quite naturally reverted to type.
J. Boyce Smith Jr. — Selecting for Better Pictures (1926) 🇺🇸
The problem which is fraught with the greatest difficulty and responsibility for the motion picture producer is that of selecting the material to be screened
Edward Sedgwick — Who is Responsible? (1926) 🇺🇸
Upon whom is to develop the responsibility for “better pictures”? Are better pictures a real issue? What is it all about anyway?
William Beaudine — Directorial Versatility (1926) 🇺🇸
Not all tears and not all smiles, but a sequence of joys and sorrows — that is life.
Richard Wallace — Who is Responsible? (1926) 🇺🇸
Five years from now, the pictures of today will seem as primitive as the pictures of 1921 appear to us today
Estelle Taylor — On the Set with John Barrymore (1926) 🇺🇸
John Barrymore, like many another man, drinks what he wants when he wants to
Adolph Zukor — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Adolph Zukor is referred to as the giant of the motion-picture business
Erich von Stroheim — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Erich von Stroheim goes against all directorial tradition in not wearing horn-rimmed glasses or using a megaphone