Vintage Movie Resources

Bert Lytell — The Essential Ingredient (1918) | www.vintoz.com
August 26, 2024

Bert Lytell — The Essential Ingredient (1918) 🇺🇸

Bert Lytell, a creature of excitement, is usually around the studio when any of it occurs.

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Pearl White — How to Act (1918) | www.vintoz.com
August 26, 2024

Pearl White — How to Act (1918) 🇺🇸

Want to know what it takes to be an actress? Here’s no-nonsense advice from the Queen of Serials, Pearl White.

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Edward Earle — Our Mary’s First Leading Man (1918) | www.vintoz.com
August 16, 2024

Edward Earle — Our Mary’s First Leading Man (1918) 🇺🇸

With such an auspicious beginning, Edward Earle was bound to succeed.

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Alice Joyce — Alice for Short (1917) | www.vintoz.com
August 16, 2024

Alice Joyce — Alice for Short (1917) 🇺🇸

Miss Joyce talks of things in general and in particular of her tiny daughter, Alice.

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Virginia Valli — From Stenography to Stardom (1918) | www.vintoz.com
August 15, 2024

Virginia Valli — From Stenography to Stardom (1918) 🇺🇸

How Virginia Valli bridged the gap between a Chicago Commission House and a private dressing room at Essanay

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Warner Oland — A Highbrow Villain from the Arctic Circle (1918) 🇺🇸
August 14, 2024

Warner Oland — A Highbrow Villain from the Arctic Circle (1918) 🇺🇸

I wonder if they know about it in Umea.

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Ralph Ince — Shopping for Human Beings (1921) | www.vintoz.com
August 13, 2024

Ralph Ince — Shopping for Human Beings (1921) 🇺🇸

After diligently searching for exact types for his production, Ralph Ince has decided that a bit of faded silk is not half as hard to match as human characteristics, or mental outlook.

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Those Cowless Cowboys (1921) | www.vintoz.com
August 13, 2024

Those Cowless Cowboys (1921) 🇺🇸

Oh, those cowless cowboys of the motion pictures! Those guys that go ‘round all dolled up like a merry-go-round in the cowboy scenery, but who never seem to have any work to do!

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Warner Oland and Edith Gardener Shearn — The Most of Every Moment (1936) | www.vintoz.com
August 12, 2024

Warner Oland — The Most of Every Moment (1936) 🇺🇸

Warner Oland and his wife prove living can be a fine art — even in the motion picture colony

 

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Viola Dana — The Girl Who Never Grew Up (1918) | www.vintoz.com
August 11, 2024

Viola Dana — The Girl Who Never Grew Up (1918) 🇺🇸

Viola Dana as she really truly is.

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Films in the Flowery Land (1918) | www.vintoz.com
August 11, 2024

Films in the Flowery Land (1918) 🇺🇸

The appeal of the Japanese movie poster is not a subtle one; it comes right out and picks you off your feet. It is as large as the side of a house, and embodies every color in the artist's paintshop.

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    Watterson Rothacker (Watterson Rounds Rothacker) (1885-1960) | www.vintoz.com
    August 10, 2024

    Watterson R. Rothacker — A Specialist in a Fine Art (1918) 🇺🇸

    Watterson R. Rothacker develops and prints more film than anyone else in America

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    Isabel Jewell — Only A “Bit” Girl (1936) | www.vintoz.com
    August 09, 2024

    Isabel Jewell — Only A “Bit” Girl (1936) 🇺🇸

    Only A “Bit” Girl — But Isabel Jewell sees Utopia just ahead

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    Basil Rathbone — He Resents Being Typed (1936) | www.vintoz.com
    August 09, 2024

    Basil Rathbone — He Resents Being Typed (1936) 🇺🇸

    Can Basil Rathbone escape playing villains?

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    Lionel Stander (with Jane Wyman) (1938) | www.vintoz.com
    August 09, 2024

    Lionel Stander — Laugh Champ (1936) 🇺🇸

    Lionel Stander has found a new comedy angle.

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    Anita Louise — Beautiful Veteran (1936) | www.vintoz.com 🇺🇸
    August 08, 2024

    Anita Louise — Beautiful Veteran (1936) 🇺🇸

    Anita Louise has made fourteen pictures in the last two years.

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    Fred Stone — “A Danged Good Actor” (1936) | www.vintoz.com
    August 08, 2024

    Fred Stone — “A Danged Good Actor” (1936) 🇺🇸

    Fred Stone, in “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” brings to the camera a great talent and a lifetime of experience.

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    Saga of Signe Hasso (1943) | www.vintoz.com
    August 07, 2024

    Saga of Signe Hasso (1943) 🇺🇸

    All roads lead to Hollywood, but Signe Hasso took the longest one on record.

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    John Wayne — Another Gary? (1931) | www.vintoz.com
    August 06, 2024

    John Wayne — Another Gary? (1931) 🇺🇸

    They’re new — hot! Watch them!

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    Marlene Dietrich — Another Garbo? (1931) | www.vintoz.com
    August 06, 2024

    Marlene Dietrich — Another Garbo? (1931) 🇺🇸

    They’re new — hot! Watch them!

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    Richard Talmadge — Could a Broken Neck Stop Him? Not Much! (1927) | www.vintoz.com
    August 02, 2024

    Richard Talmadge — Could a Broken Neck Stop Him? Not Much! (1927) 🇺🇸

    Richard Talmadge is a living example that a man can break his neck in the movies and still go on doing daredevil stunts. It’s only a matter of nerve, he says. But if you lose that, you’re gone!

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    Frank Hopper — One Chance in Thousands (1927) | www.vintoz.com
    August 01, 2024

    Frank Hopper — One Chance in Thousands (1927) 🇺🇸

    Frank Hopper had been hearing for years that he looked like Theodore Roosevelt, but it took a stranger to see in that resemblance a chance for him to play the great American in “The Rough Riders.”

     

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    The Biography of a Film – From Studio to Dead Storage Vault (1922) | www.vintoz.com
    July 08, 2024

    The Biography of a Film — From Studio to Dead Storage Vault (1922) 🇺🇸

    No matter how worthless or old a book is, somehow you can always find a copy of it tucked away in a second-hand book shop on a back street. But what becomes of all the movies, good, bad and indifferent, which we see and then never hear of again?

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    The Japanese Carpet of Bagdad (1922) | www.vintoz.com
    July 08, 2024

    The Japanese Carpet of Bagdad (1922) 🇺🇸

    “The Japanese Carpet of Bagdad” is the fourth article in Film play’s series, “Around the WorId with the Movies.”

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