Shadows of Russia Schedule
Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate
Below is the complete "Shadows of Russia" schedule on Turner Classic Movies:
Wednesday, Jan. 6
Part One: Twilight of the Tsars
8 p.m. The Scarlet Empress (1934) – starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lodge.
10 p.m. Rasputin and the Empress (1932) – starring John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore.
Part Two: Red Romance
12:15 a.m. Red Danube (1949) – starring Walter Pidgeon and Ethel Barrymore.
2:30 a.m. Reds (1981) – starring Warren Beatty, Diane [...]
by Andre Soares | November 4, 2009
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Tags: Angela Lansbury, Classic Movies, Comrade X, My Son John, Shadows of Russia, The Manchurian Candidate, The Way We Were, Turner Classic Movies
Hedy Lamarr: Q&A with Author Patrick Agan
Author Patrick Agan, among whose books are Clint Eastwood: The Man Behind the Myth and The Decline and Fall of the Love Goddesses, has been working on a biography of MGM star Hedy Lamarr, at one point considered one of the most beautiful women this side of Orion.
The Austrian-born "exotic" import was brought to the studio in the late 1930s, and would remain at MGM well into the following decade. Though hardly one of the greatest actresses to come out of either Europe or Hollywood, Lamarr possessed an undeniable charisma that made her thoroughly watchable in both biblical and modern tales, whether well cast or totally miscast, whether fully clothed or fully naked (as in Gustav Machatý’s scandalous [...]
by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007
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Tags: Algiers, Books, Classic Movies, Comrade X, Ecstasy, Hedy Lamarr, Interviews, Louis B. Mayer, Patrick Agan, The Heavenly Body
CALLING HEDY LAMARR Notes
Mischief Films
Georg Misch’s entertaining documentary Calling Hedy Lamarr takes a look at the woman behind the fabulous face.
Below are a few notes on Hedy Lamarr’s life and career:
Hedy Lamarr’s six husbands were:
munitions dealer Fritz Mandl (1933-1937),
writer-producer Gene Markey (1939-1940),
actor John Loder (1943-1947),
bandleader and part-time actor Ernest "Teddy" Stauffer (1951-1952),
oilman W. Howard Lee (1953-1959); he later married another dark-haired beauty, actress Gene Tierney,
and attorney Lewis J. Bowles (1963-1965), Lamarr’s lawyer in the divorce case against Lee.
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Husband #1, Fritz Mandl, unsuccessfully tried to buy all copies of the notorious 1933 Czech melodrama Ecstasy (1933), in which Hedy Lamarr (then known as Hedy Kiesler) appears nude. (In its review of the film, Variety [...]
by Andre Soares | December 16, 2004
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Tags: Algiers, Calling Hedy Lamarr, Classic Movies, Comrade X, Ecstasy, Ecstasy and Me, Fritz Mandl, Georg Misch, Hedy Lamarr, John Loder
