Vintage Movie Resources
Harrison Ford — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Kansas City lost a good shoe clerk and the stage and screen gained a better leading man when Ford was discovered in a Kansas City shoe store
Lya De Putti — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Though both stage and screen have provided many exciting incidents in the lives of actresses, it is doubtful if any one of them has had a career so full of varied thrilling incidents as Lya de Putti
Betty Bronson — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Betty Bronson’s advent to motion pictures was not just the pure streak of luck to which some people have attributed it
Barbara Worth — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Barbara Worth broke into the movies as a leading lady, and rarely has played anything but a leading rôle since
Frank Tuttle — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Frank Tuttle, Paramount director, laid the foundation for his picture work while a student at Yale University
Madge Bellamy — Beautiful, But — Herself (1928) 🇺🇸
And being herself is only one of Madge Bellamy’s claims to keen individuality.
Sam Wood — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Sam Wood has had much more success prospecting for motion picture stars than he had with the opening of the Reno gold rush around 1900.
Monta Bell — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Monta Bell’s first experience with pictures came in 1922, when Charles Chaplin made him assistant director at the Chaplin Studios
Irene Rich — Just What You’d Expect (1923) 🇺🇸
Irene Rich is one of the players whose personality may be said to match her roles.
Edwin Carewe — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
There is little about the motion picture industry’s production end Edwin Carewe is not familiar with
Ernst Lubitsch — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Ernst Lubitsch might now be a good clothing salesman in Berlin if his father had had his way
Raoul Walsh — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Raoul Walsh is probably proud to recount the days when he sailed the seven seas as an able seaman or when he rode the range as a Texas cowboy
Albert Rogell — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Albert Rogell is a go-getter and his indomitable will to succeed has brought him success
Herman C. Raymaker — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Herman C. Raymaker was born and raised in sunny California and has spent practically all of his life there
Richard Wallace — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
There is at least a grave difference between an undertaker and a motion picture director
Harry Pollard — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Harry Pollard was once one of the most popular actor stars in motion pictures
William A. Seiter — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
William A. Seiter is recognized as one of the leading progressive picture directors
John M. Stahl — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
John M. Stahl, supervising production of the Tiffany-Stahl Production, stepped into the role of motion picture director as, what would be termed in baseball, a pinch hitter.
John S. Robertson — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
John S. Robertson, one of the leading directors of the screen industry, refused to be a screen villain, so he became a director.
Fred Niblo — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Motion picture stars are not the only ones to claim interesting backgrounds.
Carey Wilson — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Rarely in the history of the motion picture industry has a sales manager of one of the larger companies switched to scenario writer and producer and made a success of it.
Paul Leni — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Paul Leni was literally forced into becoming a director.
Robert F. Hill — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Twenty years ago, Robert F. Hill, now noted motion picture director, started on his professional career in the somewhat lowly capacity of dresser.
Frank Capra — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Frank Capra, motion picture director, got a good break when he returned from service in the army following the war.