Fredric March on TCM
Carole Lombard, Fredric March in a Nothing Sacred publicity shot.
Fredric March has his "Summer Under the Stars" day on Monday, Aug. 24.
Turner Classic Movies will present 13 Fredric March films, including the TCM premiere of Richard Boleslawski’s Academy Award-nominated Les Miserables (1935), a handsome — if dramatically stale — adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel that pits March’s bread-thief Jean Valjean against Charles Laughton’s law-enforcing sociopath Inspector Javert.
Among the other Fredric March must-sees that day are:
Produced by David O. Selznick, William Wellman’s 1937 version of A Star Is Born features Janet Gaynor the actress doing a delicious impersonation of Janet Gaynor the persona, here named Esther Blodgett (and later renamed Vicki Lester), an ambitious but [...]
by Andre Soares | August 19, 2009
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Tags: A Star Is Born, Anna Karenina, Carole Lombard, Classic Movies, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Fredric March, Greta Garbo, Les Miserables, Miriam Hopkins, Nothing Sacred, Rouben Mamoulian, Summer Under the Stars, TCM, Turner Classic Movies
Alan & Marilyn Bergman Tribute
Songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman, among whose compositions are "The Way We Were" and the song score for Yentl, will be the recipients of an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tribute on Friday, May 29, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The evening will be hosted by music producer and composer Quincy Jones, and will feature film clips, personal remembrances from the Bergmans’ colleagues and friends, and live performances of several Oscar-nominated songs. In addition to the honorees, special guests include Dave Grusin, James Newton Howard and Michel Legrand.
The former Marilyn Keith (born in New York City in Nov. 1929) met Alan Bergman (born [...]
by Andre Soares | May 7, 2009
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Tags: A Star Is Born, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Alan Bergman, Barbra Streisand, Best Friends, Bolero, Classic Movies, Composers, Cy Coleman, Dave Grusin, Film Songs, For the Boys, Henry Mancini, It Might Be You, James Newton Howard, John Williams, Johnny Mandel, La Piscine, Les Uns et les autres, Los Angeles Screenings, Luciano Pavarotti, Margaret Herrick, Marilyn Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch, Michel Legrand, Neil Diamond, Ode to Billy Joe, Paris When It Sizzles, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Sabrina, Shirley Valentine, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Way We Were, The Windmills of Your Mind, Tootsie, Yentl, Yes Giorgio
Costume Design in the Digital Age in Hollywood
Left to right: Costume worn by Danny Kaye in The Inspector General (1949), designed by Travilla. Costume worn by Viveca Lindfors in The Adventures of Don Juan (1948), designed by Leah Rhodes. Costume worn by Natalie Wood in The Great Race (1965). designed by Edith Head. Costume worn by Judy Garland in A Star is Born (1954), designed by Irene Sharaff. Costume worn by Frank Sinatra in 4 for Texas (1963), designed by Norma Koch.
"Costume Design in the Digital Age" is the title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences program presenting the "opportunities and challenges facing motion picture costume designers working in the current era of digital [...]
by Andre Soares | April 16, 2009
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Tags: 4 for Texas, A Star Is Born, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Audrey Hepburn, Bill Taylor, Costume Designers, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Ellen Mirojnick, Irene Sharaff, Jeffrey Kurland, Judy Garland, Linwood Dunn, Los Angeles Screenings, Michael Wilkinson, My Fair Lady, Natalie Wood, Norma Koch, Ruth Myers, Travilla, Viveca Lindfors
Best Films – 1937
Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo in Camille
FILM
The Awful Truth
d, scr: Leo McCarey
Camille
d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, James Hilton, Zoe Akins
The Hurricane
d: John Ford; scr: Dudley Nichols, Oliver H. P. Garrett
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
d: Richard Boleslawski; scr: Leon Gordon, Samson Raphaelson, Monckton Hoffe
Lost Horizon
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
Night Must Fall
d: Richard Thorpe; scr: John Van Druten
Les Perles de la couronne / Pearls of the Crown
d: Sacha Guitry, Christian-Jacque; scr: Sacha Guitry
The Prisoner of Zenda
d: John Cromwell; scr: Wells Root, John G. Balderstone, Donald Ogden Stewart
Quality Street
d: George Stevens; scr: Mortimer Offner, Allan Scott
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
d: David Hand; scr: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon and others
A Star Is Born
d: William A. Wellman; scr: Dorothy Parker, [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A Star Is Born, Alan Campbell, Alan Mowbray, Alfred Newman, Alice Brady, Allan Scott, Anthony Veiller, Arletty, Bert Glennon, Best Films, Brian Aherne, Camille, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Christian-Jacque, Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, Colin Clive, Conquest, Constance Bennett, Cora Witherspoon, Dame May Whitty, David Hand, David Miller, Dead End, Dmitri Tiomkin, Donald Ogden Stewart, Dorothy Parker, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Dudley Nichols, Eddie Moran, Edward Ward, Eric Hatch, Erich von Stroheim, Ermete Zacconi, Ernest Vajda, Etienne Girardot, Eve Arden, Frances Marion, Frank Borzage, Frank Capra, Fredric March, George Cukor, George Stevens, Ginger Rogers, Grand Illusion, Gregg Toland, Gregory La Cava, Greta Garbo, Henry Daniell, Herbert Stothart, History Is Made at Night, Irene Dunne, Jack Jevne, James Hilton, James Whale, James Wong Howe, Janet Gaynor, Jean Gabin, Jeanette MacDonald, Joan Crawford, Joel McCrea, John Barrymore, John Cromwell, John Ford, John G. Balderstone, John Van Druten, Joseph Walker, Karl Freund, Katharine Hepburn, Kathleen Harrison, La Grande illusion, Lawrence Hazard, Leo McCarey, Leon Gordon, Les Perles de la couronne, Lillian Hellman, Lost Horizon, Lucille Ball, Luise Rainer, Mannequin, Maria Ouspenskaya, May Robson, Maytime, Merle Tottenham, Monckton Hoffe, Morrie Ryskind, Mortimer Offner, Neil Fitzgerald, Nelson Eddy, Night Must Fall, Noel Langley, Norman Z. McLeod, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Oliver T. Marsh, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Parnell, Pearls of the Crown, Penny Wisdom, Pierre Fresnay, Quality Street, Ray June, Richard Boleslawski, Richard Creedon, Richard Thorpe, Robert Carson, Robert Montgomery, Robert Riskin, Robert Taylor, Robert Z. Leonard, Ronald Colman, Roy Webb, Sacha Guitry, Samson Raphaelson, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Stage Door, Sylvia Sidney, Ted Sears, The Awful Truth, The Good Earth, The Great Garrick, The Hurricane, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The Old Mill, The Prisoner of Zenda, Topper, True Confession, Wells Root, Wilfred Jackson, William A. Wellman, William H. Daniels, William Powell, William Wyler, Zoe Akins
George Cukor’s Oscar Nominated Actors
George Cukor
21 Acting Nominations
(s) supporting category
(*) Academy Award winner
George Cukor: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
1930-31
Fredric March The Royal Family of Broadway (co-directed with Cyril Gardner)
1936
Norma Shearer Romeo and Juliet
Basil Rathbone (s) Romeo and Juliet
1937
Greta Garbo (above, with Robert Taylor) Camille
1940
James Stewart The Philadelphia Story *
Katharine Hepburn (above, with Stewart and Cary Grant) The Philadelphia Story
Ruth Hussey (s) The Philadelphia Story
1944
Charles Boyer Gaslight
Ingrid Bergman Gaslight *
Angela Lansbury (s) Gaslight
1947
Ronald Colman A Double Life *
1949
Deborah Kerr Edward, My Son
1950
Judy Holliday Born Yesterday *
1954
James Mason A Star Is Born
Judy Garland A Star Is Born
1957
Anthony Quinn Wild Is the Wind
Anna Magnani Wild Is the Wind
1964
Rex Harrison (above, with Audrey Hepburn) My Fair Lady *
Stanley Holloway (s) My Fair Lady
Gladys Cooper (s) [...]
by Andre Soares | January 28, 2007
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Tags: A Star Is Born, Academy Awards, Audrey Hepburn, Camille, Classic Movies, Film Awards, George Cukor, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, My Fair Lady, Norma Shearer, The Philadelphia Story
