Vintage Movie Resources
Ray Bolger (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Ray Bolger started out to conquer the world with a clean-up campaign.
Marie Blake (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — When Marie Blake was eight years old, and making her first appearance in vaudeville, she saw a nice-looking little red-haired boy in the first row.
Robert Benchley (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Author, playwright, actor, columnist, critic and commentator, Robert Benchley is one of life’s little oddities.
Elizabeth Allan (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Probably it was the nearness of the ocean that instilled in her the desire to travel to foreign lands which has never been satiated.
Janet Beecher (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Janet Beecher, famous character actress of Broadway and Hollywood, bears the name of one of the most famous families in American history.
W. S. Van Dyke (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Although he has been a miner, lumberman and newspaper reporter, W. S. Van Dyke has been connected with the stage and screen almost since his birth.
William Thiele (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Possessing an uncanny talent for discovering and developing actors and actresses, William Thiele is both writer and director.
Errol Taggart (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Even before he ran away from home at fourteen Errol Taggart was an earnest advocate of preparedness.
Sam Wood (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Sam Wood bought a “gold-brick” and surprised even himself when it proved to be made of money.
Richard Thorpe (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Richard Thorpe has had practically every kind of a job in the picture business from extra player to studio manager.
George B. Seitz (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — George B. Seitz directs his pictures with an artist’s eye, for, next to directing, Seitz likes best to paint.
J. Walter Ruben (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — He started modestly by writing fiction for magazines and enjoyed an exceptional degree of success from the first.
Edward Ludwig (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Probably Hollywood’s most-traveled director is Edward Ludwig
Reinhold Schünzel (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — On a walk in a park in a European city, a little boy used to stand and watch the Punch and Judy show presented daily for the children.
Edwin L. Marin (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — By adopting a method peculiarly his own, Edwin L. Marin became a successful director without serving an apprenticeship.
Gustav Machatý (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Fifteen years ago, on his first Hollywood adventure, Gustav Machatý trained and attended a studio comedy lion known as Humpy.
Robert Z. Leonard (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — A graduate of the musical comedy stage, Robert Z. Leonard has an enviable record of directorial hits, both silent and talking.
Sidney Franklin (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — A sun tan was the reason for Sidney Franklin becoming a director.
Victor Fleming (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Victor Fleming has the amazing record of being associated with the picture business more than twenty-five years, and more than half of that time as an “ace” director.
Charles Dorian (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — The How-I-Made-Good-In-Hollywood-Club has never been successful in enlisting Charley Dorian as a member.
Clarence Brown (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Two degrees in engineering and a successful automobile business lacked the power to keep Clarence Brown out of the theater as one of its major craftsmen.
Edward Buzzell (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Eddie Buzzell, as a boy in high school, discovered that he had mannerisms that made people laugh. So he gave up the idea of becoming an engineer and set about becoming a comedian.
Frank Borzage (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — Watching Frank Borzage direct a picture, the novice is likely to believe that it is easy work.
George Fitzmaurice (Who’s Who at MGM, 1937) 🇺🇸
Biography — George Fitzmaurice received his education in private schools and academies in Paris, where he was born on February 13.
