Basil Dearden Articles

Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde in Basil Dearden's Victim 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan is in the news today because of viciously anti-gay remarks he made while performing a comedy routine in Tennessee, a state where gays and lesbians have seen their civil rights attacked by right-wing Christians/Republicans on various fronts. Coincidentally, Turner Classic Movies is showing three movies about a time decades ago when gays were [...]

Strangely, Dirk Bogarde never became a major star in the United States. I'm sure he was well known in the US in the '50s and '60s, but he wasn't the superstar he was in Britain or the top star he was internationally. Perhaps Bogarde just didn't care for Hollywood stardom — certainly not when in Europe he got to work for the likes of Joseph [...]

Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter FILM Blithe Spirit d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward Boule de suif / Angel and Sinner d: Christian-Jaque; scr: Henri Jeanson Brief Encounter d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame Dead of Night d: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer; scr: John Baines, Angus MacPhail Les Enfants du paradis / Children [...]