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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; A Star Is Born</title>
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		<title>TCM Classic Film Festival: A STAR IS BORN, METROPOLIS, BREATHLESS, 2001</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2001: A Space Odyssey]]></category>
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Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom)

Turner Classic Movies&#8216;  first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor’s  A Star is Born (1954), starring Judy Garland and James Mason; the North American premiere of the  restored version of Fritz Lang’s  Metropolis (1927); and a 50th anniversary screening of Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s Breathless, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.  
The TCM Classic Film Festival will also feature a special presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s  2001: A Space Odyssey, including a discussion with Oscar-winning visual-effects artist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fredric March on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Actors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anna Karenina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carole Lombard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greta Garbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Les Miserables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nothing Sacred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rouben Mamoulian]]></category>
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Carole Lombard, Fredric March in a Nothing Sacred publicity shot.

Fredric March has his &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Monday, Aug. 24.
Turner Classic Movies will present 13 Fredric March films, including the TCM premiere of Richard Boleslawski&#8217;s  Academy Award-nominated  Les Miserables (1935), a handsome &#8212; if dramatically stale &#8212; adaptation of Victor Hugo&#8217;s classic novel that  pits March&#8217;s bread-thief Jean Valjean against  Charles Laughton&#8217;s  law-enforcing sociopath Inspector Javert.
Among the other Fredric March must-sees that day are:
Produced by David O. Selznick, William Wellman&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan &amp; Marilyn Bergman Tribute</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cy Coleman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Thomas Crown Affair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Way We Were]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Windmills of Your Mind]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yentl]]></category>
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Songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman, among whose compositions are &#34;The Way We Were&#34; 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&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costume Design in the Digital Age in Hollywood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[4 for Texas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costume Designers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Nadoolman Landis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Mirojnick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irene Sharaff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Kurland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Garland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linwood Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Wilkinson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Wood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norma Koch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Myers]]></category>
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  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.
&#160;
&#34;Costume Design in the Digital Age&#34; is the title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences program presenting the &#34;opportunities and challenges facing motion picture costume  designers working in the current era of digital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Films &#8211; 1937</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1937/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Campbell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alfred Newman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alice Brady]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allan Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Veiller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arletty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bert Glennon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Aherne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Camille]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carole Lombard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cary Grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian-Jacque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claire Trevor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colin Clive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conquest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constance Bennett]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dame May Whitty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donald Ogden Stewart]]></category>
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 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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Cukor&#8217;s Oscar Nominated Actors</title>
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		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-cukor-oscar-nominated-actors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
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George Cukor
21 Acting Nominations
(s) supporting category
(*) Academy Award winner
George Cukor: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
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1930-31
Fredric March The Royal Family of Broadway (co-directed with Cyril Gardner)
&#160;

1936
Norma Shearer Romeo and Juliet
Basil Rathbone (s) Romeo and Juliet
&#160;
1937

Greta Garbo (above, with Robert Taylor) Camille
&#160;
1940

James Stewart The Philadelphia Story *
Katharine Hepburn (above, with Stewart and Cary Grant) The Philadelphia Story
Ruth Hussey (s) The Philadelphia Story
&#160;
1944

Charles Boyer Gaslight 
Ingrid Bergman Gaslight *
Angela Lansbury (s) Gaslight 
&#160;
1947
Ronald Colman A Double Life *
&#160;
1949
Deborah Kerr Edward, My Son
&#160;
1950
Judy Holliday Born Yesterday *
&#160;
1954

James Mason A Star Is Born
Judy Garland A Star Is Born
&#160;
1957
Anthony Quinn Wild Is the Wind
Anna Magnani Wild Is the Wind
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1964


Rex Harrison (above, with Audrey Hepburn) My Fair Lady *
Stanley Holloway (s) My Fair Lady 
Gladys Cooper (s) [...]]]></description>
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