Corinne Griffith Articles

Several shorts directed by film pioneer Georges Méliès, played by Ben Kingsley in Martin Scorsese's well-received Hugo, will be featured throughout January 2012 at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's Edison Theater in Fremont, Calif. The Méliès screenings will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, 21, and 28. On Jan. 7, the Edison Theater will show Méliès' 1910 short The Doctor's Secret prior [...]

Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson in William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (top); Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert in Mitchell Leisen's Midnight (middle); Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi in Frank Lloyd's The Divine Lady (bottom) Doris Day, Danielle Darrieux, Joan Fontaine, Barbra Streisand: Honorary Oscars and Women Pt.2 Among the distinguished female film professionals in Hollywood and elsewhere who have gone to the Great Beyond without having received the Academy's [...]

Alexandra Schmidt in Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness FILM Eternal Love d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker The Last of Mrs. Cheyney d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Hans Kräly, Claudine West The Love Parade d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Ernest Vajda, Guy Bolton Lucky Star d: Frank Borzage; scr: Sonya Levien; dialogue: John Hunter Booth; titles: H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker [...]

Ann Savage, the actress who played an evil, unredeemable femme fatale who makes life hell for Tom Neal in the 1945 B-noir Detour (see clip), died in her sleep at a nursing home on Christmas Day from complications following a series of strokes. She was 87. Savage had a minor career in films of the 1940s, with Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour as her sole claim [...]