Vintage Movie Resources
Jean Arthur — Nasal — But Nice (1930) 🇺🇸
Jean Arthur is found to be just naïve enough to be interesting, and free of those plagues of Hollywood, yearning for big things in literature and cultivating a complex, and she is not at all nasal off the screen.
Charles Bickford — The Big Goat-Getter from Boston (1930) 🇺🇸
Charles Bickford fairly bellows his opinions of Hollywood and movies — moronic movies, he calls them — and film people scuttle to cover to protect sensitive toes when he lets go, for he spares nobody from producer to extra.
John Stambaugh — From the Dust of Defeat (1930) 🇺🇸
John Stambaugh, one of ten college boys chosen for pictures, refused to admit failure when he and his fellows were released after a try-out. Now, after two years, he is coming into his own.
Ann Harding — Blond — But Not Light (1930) 🇺🇸
One has only to consider Ann Harding's life to know that her pastel beauty masks the righting spirit of a general's daughter.
John Cassavetes — "Who Needs Good Looks?" (1957) 🇺🇸
Certainly not the human dynamo named Cassavetes, who "only" has genuine talent, enthusiasm and drive to burn
Will Tony Randall Spoil Success? (1958) 🇺🇸
Tony's unique personality is a curious combination of naive nonsense and urbane wit
Ina Claire — Not Just a Wife (1930) 🇺🇸
"I look incongruous in aprons!" says Ina Claire Gilbert — one reason she will never retire from a star dressing-room to live in a 12-room cottage
Otis Skinner — Lost in the Hollywood Maze (1930) 🇺🇸
What happened to Otis Skinner in Hollywood? Let the great stage star give you, in his own words, his frank and humorous impressions of Screentown.
Madge Evans — Pauvre Enfant ? Merci — Non ! (1918) 🇺🇸
Or, in plain, everyday U. S., Madge Evans is not a pallid chee-ild of the drama.
Lila Lee — Do You Believe in Fairies? (1918) 🇺🇸
The happy romance of Lila Lee indicates their presence around us
Roy Stewart — A Blue-Ribbon Baby (1918) 🇺🇸
Referring, of course, to the Roy Stewart of some years back
May Allison is Back! (1918) 🇺🇸
She cherished primadonna aspirations but the war caused their postponement — and her return to the screen
Marguerite Snow — She Never Worked for Griffith (1918) 🇺🇸
Marguerite Snow never even entered the Biograph Studio
David Warfield — He Refused Five Thousand a Day (1918) 🇺🇸
David Warfield has just refused the greatest salary ever offered to any human being, under any circumstances.
Anita Stewart — Anita’s War Garden (1918) 🇺🇸
Not for the lowly potato or string-bean does she labor, but for a bumper crop of fearless soldiers.
Tsuru Aoki — An American From Tokio (1918) 🇺🇸
Whatever her name may sound like, we pronounce her to be thoroughly charming
Charles T. Dazey — A Dramatist Who Came Back (1918) 🇺🇸
Charles T. Dazey, successful retired playwright, turned to the screen at middle age and found new triumphs.
Hedda Nova — A Refugee from Russia (1918) 🇺🇸
Hedda Nova is the daughter of a revolutionist. And she's hiding — before the camera.
Agnes Christine Johnston — Good-Bye, Hollywood! (1930) 🇺🇸
Why one of Hollywood's most successful writers and most popular girls left motion pictures, told by herself
Barbara Stanwyck — Not a Pattern Girl (1931) 🇺🇸
Barbara Stanwyck was fired from her first job selling patterns, so she's never been a pattern girl since!
Claudia Dell — Ex-Follies Girl! (1930) 🇺🇸
Claudia Dell graduates from Ziegfeld glorification to screen stardom
Douglas MacPhail (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography —His first job was in the chorus of Born to Dance was followed by others, which added fuel to the fire of his ambition.
Bill Powell — As He Is (1929) 🇺🇸
A brilliant resume of the character and career of one of the most adroit and sure-fire stars.