Burt Lancaster Articles

Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire (top); Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair in Delbert Mann’s Marty (middle) Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood: The Attack of the Small Screens is the next chapter of Turner Classic Movies‘ seven-part Moguls & Movie Stars documentary, which will be shown twice tonight, at 5 and 8 p.m. PT. The appropriately titled "The [...]

Burt Lancaster in Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (top); Marko Zaror in Ernesto Diaz Espinosa’s Mandrill (upper middle); Elsa Daniel in Leopoldo Torre Nilsson’s The Fall (lower middle); Jennifer Arnold’s A Small Act (bottom) Luchino Visconti’s restored The Leopard, Ernesto Diaz Espinosa’s Mandrill, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson’s The Fall, and Jennifer Arnold’s A Small Act are some of the highlights at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival [...]

Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (1946), the film noir that catapulted Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner (above) to stardom, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood’s Dark Side.” The Killers will be shown on Monday, June 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. [...]

Martita Hunt, Jean Simmons in Great Expectations (Universal) Jean Simmons, who died on Jan. 22 at age 80, will have next Friday evening dedicated to her on Turner Classic Movies. Beginning at 5pm PT, TCM will show three Jean Simmons movies: David Lean’s Great Expectations (1946), and Richard Brooks‘ Elmer Gantry (1960) and The Happy Ending (1969). Many consider the Academy Award-nominated Great Expectations the [...]