Vintage Movie Resources

Nils Asther — As He Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
February 29, 2024

Nils Asther — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸

In this shrewd and discriminating catalogue of Mr. Asther’s tastes and habits you will find the man himself clearly reflected.

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Renée Adorée — As She Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com
February 29, 2024

Renée Adorée — As She Is (1929) 🇺🇸

An analysis of Miss Adorée’s character reveals one of the unique personalities of Hollywood.

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Greta Garbo — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 28, 2024

Greta Garbo — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

An exceptional and sympathetic analysis of the Garbo personality, which is no less remarkable and unusual outside the studio than before the camera.

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Norma Shearer — As She Is (1929) | www.vintoz.com 🇺🇸
February 28, 2024

Norma Shearer — As She Is (1929) 🇺🇸

Strictly self-made, Miss Shearer is shown in this study to be now serenely and gracefully enjoying the security of stardom, for which she worked so hard.

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Corinne Griffith — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 28, 2024

Corinne Griffith — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

In this, the second of a series of character studies of famous stars, Corinne Griffith is shown to possess certain unsuspected qualities, including a sense of humor.

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Richard Dix — As He Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 28, 2024

Richard Dix — As He Is (1928) 🇺🇸

In this careful appraisal of Richard Dix, his career is followed step by step, and his popularity with coworkers and fans is accounted for.

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Norma Talmadge — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 27, 2024

Norma Talmadge — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

Much has been written about Norma Talmadge, but never has her real character been revealed as it is in this frank study — the first of a series of insights into the souls of the cinema great.

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February 27, 2024

Ramon Novarro — As He Is (1928) 🇺🇸

Picture Play is proud to offer this brilliant, comprehensive and sympathetic analysis to the admirers of Mr. Novarro.

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Casting Directors — Theirs Is Not a Happy Lot (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 26, 2024

Casting Directors — Theirs Is Not a Happy Lot (1928) 🇺🇸

Into the ears of the casting directors are poured the sorrows of Hollywood, every scheme and trick is practiced upon them to get work, and gratitude for their favors is followed by resentment when roles are withheld.

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Vilma Banky — As She Is (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 26, 2024

Vilma Banky — As She Is (1928) 🇺🇸

This analysis of Vilma Banky is both penetrating and sympathetic, while the character, as well as the pronounced individuality of the beautiful Hungarian, is carefully presented.

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Eddie Quillan — Pride of the Clan (1929) | www.vintoz.com
February 25, 2024

Eddie Quillan — Pride of the Clan (1929) 🇺🇸

Eddie Quillan’s papa took exception to his son’s pie-throwing roles with Mack Sennett lingerie girls, but he soon found a place that comes up to the family standard of humor.

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“Buddy” Ralston and Jobyna Ralston | Pull Hasn’t Helped Them At All (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 25, 2024

Pull Hasn’t Helped Them At All (1928) 🇺🇸

Being related to a screen celebrity has a good many disadvantages lined up against the advantages. This interesting story explains why most relatives of stars fail in their attempt to share the spotlight.

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Richard Cromwell and Joan Peers in Tol'able David (1930) | www.vintoz.com
February 24, 2024

Richard Cromwell — The Discovery of Dick (1931) 🇺🇸

Another one of those Hollywood romances! Richard Cromwell, an unknown hero, shoots from obscurity to fame in three months

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Anita Garvin, Frances Lee, Estelle Bradley — Beauty Takes the Bumps! (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 24, 2024

Anita Garvin, Frances Lee, Estelle Bradley — Beauty Takes the Bumps! (1928) 🇺🇸

The players you laugh at on the screen probably work harder to cause that laugh, than those who are famous for “emoting.” This is an entertaining story of three of the former.

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William Haines — The Young Man of the Hour (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 23, 2024

William Haines — The Young Man of the Hour (1928) 🇺🇸

William Haines waited four years for his chance to prove what he could do on the screen, and ever since Brown of Harvard his performances and popularity have been pyramiding prodigiously. But above all things, he does not want to become a one-part actor.

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The Strange Case of Conway Tearle (1928) | www.vintoz.com
February 23, 2024

The Strange Case of Conway Tearle (1928) 🇺🇸

Why was he suddenly banished from the screen at the height of his career? Was it the large salary he demanded, or his disturbing habit of talking back, or what? Certainly it was not that he was unwanted. This story will help you to draw your own conclusions.

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Feeding Film Folk (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 22, 2024

Feeding Film Folk (1925) 🇬🇧

Catering for a small picnic party of three thousand strong is a bit of an undertaking.

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Larry Semon — Simple Semon (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 22, 2024

Larry Semon — Simple Semon (1925) 🇬🇧

Larry of that ilk is not so simple off the screen, else he would never have become one of the three best beloved comedians in filmland.

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Olga Prinzlau  | Screen Scribes (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 22, 2024

Screen Scribes (1925) 🇬🇧

Continuity writers belong to a new school of literature which lives and has its being only in motion picture studios. It is complicated work, about which the general public knows little or nothing.

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James Kirkwood — Unlucky Jim (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 21, 2024

James Kirkwood — Unlucky Jim (1925) 🇬🇧

Thus named because he has had more accidents whilst filming than any other screen star. But it doesn’t apply otherwise, he himself smilingly admits

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Lois Wilson — Lois Laughs at Men (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 20, 2024

Lois Wilson — Lois Laughs at Men (1925) 🇬🇧

Her attitude to men is of a “gentle maternal, highly amused variety,” declares Vincent de Sola in this character analysis of Lois Wilson.

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Charles (Buck) Jones — The Eternal Cowboy (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 19, 2024

Charles (Buck) Jones — The Eternal Cowboy (1925) 🇬🇧

The Eternal Cowboy — Otherwise known as Charles (Buck) Jones

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February 19, 2024

Victor Seastrom — The Sombreness of Seastrom (1925) 🇬🇧

Seastrom is one of the greatest producers in the world. His genius is unquestionable, even though he has, to a certain extent, prostituted it to American dollars.

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Ben Lyon — Footlight or Shadows (1925) | www.vintoz.com
February 17, 2024

Ben Lyon — Footlight or Shadows (1925) 🇬🇧

Ben Lyon prefers the screen to the stage

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