Claire Bloom Articles

Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, The Haunting The Movies’ Top Ten Scream Queens 10 – Mary Philbin, The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Okay, so this is a silent film; in other words, Universal star Mary Philbin's screaming was all in my head. But it worked. Lon Chaney at his most grotesque had the title role; Norman Kerry was Philbin's dashing leading man. Rupert Julian directed. [...]

Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech David Fincher's The Social Network, up for Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg) and Best Cast, failed to win anything at the 2011 SAG Awards. Colin Firth was named Best Actor for his performance as the speech-impaired King George VI in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech, while the British period drama received the Best Cast trophy. Geoffrey [...]

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, [...]

Julie Harris, Claire Bloom in The Haunting (top); The Village People in Can't Stop the Music (bottom) "Out at the Pictures" at London's bfi Southbank: Robert Wise's horror-house classic The Haunting (1963), starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn Nancy Walker's costly box-office disaster Can't Stop the Music (1980), starring a rollerblading Steve Guttenberg (in some tight, tight shorts that would get [...]