Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY Screening
Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster make love in From Here to Eternity(top); Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra do a little (sorta) lovemaking of their own later on in the film (bottom)
Fred Zinnemann’s 1953 Academy Award-winning drama From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra, will be screened by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The presentation will feature the premiere of a new digital restoration, as well as an onstage discussion with Ernest Borgnine, who has a supporting role in the film.
Adapted by Daniel Taradash from James Jones‘ bestselling [...]
by Andre Soares | November 9, 2009
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Yul Brynner on TCM
Yul Brynner’s "Summer Under the Stars" day is Wednesday, Aug. 26.
Inevitably, The King and I (1956), the movie that earned Brynner an Academy Award and turned him into a major international star, is included in Turner Classic Movies‘ Yul Brynner Day line-up. Brynner is great in it and so is Deborah Kerr as the Englishwoman who teaches the King of Siam how to dance, but the movie itself, directed by Fox stalwart Walter Lang, takes quite a bit to get going. In fact, I prefer the more modest 1946 non-musical, Anna and the King of Siam, with Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison — even though Brynner is much more believable (and funnier) than Harrison.
The other Yul Brynner-Deborah Kerr pairing, The [...]
by Andre Soares | August 20, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Deborah Kerr, Summer Under the Stars, The Journey, The Magnificent Seven, Turner Classic Movies, Westworld, Yul Brynner
Deborah Kerr on TCM
Deborah Kerr’s day in the Turner Classic Movies"Summer Under the Stars" series will feature two TCM premieres: The Day Will Dawn / The Avengers, a British-made 1942 spy drama, and Leo McCarey’s An Affair to Remember (1957), one of Kerr’s best-known films.
I haven’t seen The Day Will Dawn, but An Affair to Remember is an effective romantic comedy-drama, with both Kerr and Cary Grant in top form as the couple who fail to meet as near to heaven as possible, but who go on loving one another, anyways.
As I’ve said before in this blog, Deborah Kerr is one of my favorite dozen or so actors. Her performances, however cool and composed on the surface, always carry within them [...]
by Andre Soares | August 12, 2009
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Tags: An Affair to Remember, Classic Movies, Deborah Kerr, Edward My Son, From Here to Eternity, Summer Under the Stars, TCM, Tea and Sympathy, Turner Classic Movies
Robert Mitchum Interviewed by Roger Ebert
Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter
Via Rogerebert.com:
"He [Robert Mitchum] was my favorite movie star, and my favorite interview. He would tell you anything. He fearlessly maligned his directors, co-stars, even actors he had never worked with. ([Steve] McQueen? ‘He doesn’t bring much to the party.’) He was once called ‘the embodiment of film noir,’ and that was about right.
"In ‘From the Archives’ this week, I’m reprinting four of the seven or eight interviews I did with Mitch. The first three take place between 1969 and 1971, during and after he made Ryan’s Daughter. The fourth is at a tribute some 20 years later. You get a sense of his irreverence, his refusal to take himself seriously, [...]
by Andre Soares | December 6, 2007
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Tags: Charles Laughton, Classic Movies, Deborah Kerr, Out of the Past, Robert Mitchum, Robert Wise, Roger Ebert, Shirley MacLaine, The Night of the Hunter, The Sundowners
Deborah Kerr: What Lies Beneath
With Deborah Kerr, it’s not the bare shoulders that matter. It’s the eyes.
Deborah Kerr, who died at the age of 86 on Oct. 16, has usually been labeled the cinematic embodiment of the English Rose: ladylike from coiffure to pedicure, perfectly enunciated English, a distinctive coolness, poise and class. I won’t argue with that description (except to point out that this English Rose was born in Scotland), but all the same I wonder if any of those labelers have ever watched Deborah Kerr on screen other than the "Shall We Dance?" sequence in The King and I.
Then there are those who have seen two Deborah Kerr scenes: "Shall We Dance?" and the kissing-on-the-beach bit in From Here to Eternity.
Shocking! [...]
by Andre Soares | October 25, 2007
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Tags: Classic Movies, Deborah Kerr, Sex