Deborah Kerr on TCM
Deborah Kerr’s day in the Turner Classic Movies"Summer Under the Stars" series will feature two TCM premieres: The Day Will Dawn / The Avengers, a British-made 1942 spy drama, and Leo McCarey’s An Affair to Remember (1957), one of Kerr’s best-known films.
I haven’t seen The Day Will Dawn, but An Affair to Remember is an effective romantic comedy-drama, with both Kerr and Cary Grant in top form as the couple who fail to meet as near to heaven as possible, but who go on loving one another, anyways.
As I’ve said before in this blog, Deborah Kerr is one of my favorite dozen or so actors. Her performances, however cool and composed on the surface, always carry within them [...]
by Andre Soares | August 12, 2009
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Tags: An Affair to Remember, Classic Movies, Deborah Kerr, Edward My Son, From Here to Eternity, Summer Under the Stars, TCM, Tea and Sympathy, Turner Classic Movies
Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne in LOVE AFFAIR Screening
Love Affair, one of the 1939 Best Picture nominees, is next in line in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Prior to the film, beginning at 7 p.m., the sixth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the Warner Bros. Oscar-nominated cartoon Detouring America, directed by Tex Avery, will be screened.
Leo McCarey produced, directed and co-wrote (with Mildred Cram) the story for Love Affair (the actual screenplay was credited to Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart), a romantic [...]
by Andre Soares | June 16, 2009
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Tags: An Affair to Remember, Charles Boyer, Classic Movies, Donald Ogden Stewart, Irene Dunne, Leo McCarey, Los Angeles Screenings, Love Affair, Maria Ouspenskaya, Oscar 1939, Oscar Movies
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE – Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Direction: Nora Ephron
Screenplay: Nora Ephron, David S. Ward, Jeff Arch, and Delia Ephron (uncredited), from an original story by Jeff Arch
Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Rosie O’Donnell, Gaby Hoffman, Victor Garber, Rita Wilson, David Hyde Pierce, Rob Reiner
In Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Red, the last installment of his "Three Colors" trilogy, the word "magic" is never bandied about. No need to. Magic is just about everywhere in that lyrical tale about love and fate. In Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle, which received an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay, the word "magic" seems to crop up every other minute. Ephron and fellow screenwriters Jeff Arch, David S. Ward, and (an uncredited) Delia Ephron were [...]
by Andre Soares | October 22, 2004
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Tags: An Affair to Remember, Delia Ephron, Film Reviews, Meg Ryan, Nora Ephron, Oscar 1993, Oscar Movies, Romantic Movies, Rosie O'Donnell, Sleepless in Seattle, Tom Hanks
