Anne Baxter Articles
Jean Arthur, Anne Baxter, Lilli Palmer, Eleanor Parker: Forgotten Actresses Montage
What better way to start the New Year than by remembering the past? No, not war and assorted catastrophes, but beauty and romance. The clip above features a montage of about two dozen actresses from the studio era. See how many you can recognize. Here's some assistance: Anne Baxter, Anne Shirley, Claire Bloom, Constance Bennett, Eleanor Parker, Frances Dee, Gail Russell, Janet Gaynor, Jean Arthur, [...]
Meredith Baxter Says She's Gay
On the day the New York senate decides that gays don't deserve the right to marry, Meredith Baxter, best known for the 1980s television series Family Ties, has stated in print, television, and radio that "yes, I'm a lesbian." The 62-year-old Baxter (born in the Los Angeles suburb of South Pasadena on June 21, 1947), who has been married three times and has five children, [...]
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial
Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a special 50th anniversary screening of a recently restored print of Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor (above, and right, with Mankiewicz), and Montgomery Clift. The screening will take place on Thursday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater [...]