Blake Edwards Articles

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's Blake Edwards, who died this past Dec. 15 at the age of 88, will be celebrated by Turner Classic Movies on Monday evening with the presentation of five of Edwards' best-known efforts: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The Pink Panther (1964), Victor Victoria (1982), and Operation Petticoat (1959). Apart from The Pink [...]

Julie Andrews, Victor Victoria (top); Peter Sellers, The Pink Panther (middle); Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Days of Wine and Roses (bottom) I saw Blake Edwards at a book signing for his wife Julie Andrews at the soon-to-be defunct Borders in Westwood in the spring of 2008. I noticed Edwards looked quite frail and wondered how much longer he would be around. He died of pneumonia [...]

Great news for Lee Remick fans: eleven of her movies will be shown on Thursday, Aug. 26, on Turner Classic Movies. Remick Day is part of TCM's "Summer Under the Stars" series. [Lee Remick schedule.] I've been a major Lee Remick fan since I saw this pretty, talented blonde with the bluest of blue eyes in two movies: Otto Preminger's courtroom comedy-drama Anatomy of a [...]

Peter Sellers in Lolita. Photo: Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies. Peter Sellers will have his "Summer Under the Stars" day on Saturday, Aug. 29. Turner Classic Movies will present thirteen Peter Sellers vehicles, including two TCM premieres, John Guillermin's Waltz of the Toreadors and Robert Day's Two-Way Stretch. First of all, I must admit that I'm not that familiar with Sellers' film career. Among the [...]