Vintage Movie Resources
C. Graham Baker — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
C. Graham Baker was told that the film industry was in need of stories. Baker wrote five comedies, sent them in and collected his check.
Stuart Paton — Blind Man’s Bluff (1925) 🇺🇸
How Stuart Paton, sightless and helpless, bluffed misfortune and won.
Gladys Brockwell Does “His” Bit (1918) 🇺🇸
Gladys Brockwell — Wearing the pants in pursuit of a living
Richard Dix — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Richard Dix, one of the most virile actors on the screen, did not become a doctor only because he couldn’t stand the sight of blood.
Sally Rand — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Plunging head first into a swimming pool, Sally Rand made her screen debut
Colleen Moore — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Colleen Moore made her first assault on the film citadel at the old Essanay studio in Chicago
Harry Langdon — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Harry Langdon came honestly by that wistful look he employs so successfully on the screen
Harold Lloyd — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Harold Lloyd became associated with Hal Roach, and started making several hundred of the now famous Lonesome Luke comedies
Douglas MacLean — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Douglas MacLean tried a little bit of several things before he decided eventually on the acting profession as a career.
Tom Tyler — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Tom Tyler had more than his share of hardships before winning success as a motion picture actor
The Duncan Sisters — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
It was at Tait’s Restaurant in San Francisco that Rosetta and Vivian Duncan got their start professionally
Glenn Tryon — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
After plodding along for three years making two-reelers for Hal Roach, Glenn Tryon became an over night sensation
Hoot Gibson — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Hoot Gibson, Universal’s celebrated portrayer of Western rôles
Allene Ray — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Without ever having had a day’s experience, either in pictures or on the stage, Allene Ray sprang overnight into a leading lady on the screen.
Buddy Roosevelt — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Despite his ability in the saddle, Buddy Roosevelt found it hard to get work in Hollywood
María Corda — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
María Corda will be as well known to motion picture fans of the United States as that of any of the leading stars
Lucien Prival — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Lucien Prival was born in New York City, but he started his film career in Germany
Jean Hersholt — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
The Panama Pacific International Exposition was indirectly responsible for the advent in America of Jean Hersholt, now generally recognized as one of the few character actors in the motion picture industry
Evelyn Brent — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Evelyn Brent became discouraged with and left motion pictures three times before she attained a great success
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