Deborah Kerr Articles

According to various online sources, Tasmanian-born director Don Sharp has died. He was 89. A former small-time actor (The Planter's Wife, The Cruel Sea), Sharp (born April 19, 1922, in Hobart) is best remembered for several low-budget thrillers he directed in the 1960s, such as Hammer's The Kiss of the Vampire (1963), the sci-fier Curse of the Fly (1965), and the The Brides of Fu [...]

Peter Wyngarde, Martin Stephens, The Innocents Max Schreck, NOSFERATU: Top Five Scariest Living Dead Pt.2 When I first saw it as a kid, I loved Jack Clayton's spooky 1961 movie The Innocents, adapted by Truman Capote from Henry James' novel The Turn of the Screw. Admittedly, The Innocents is the kind of movie that could have turned this Catholic school student into a remorseless serial [...]

Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Hollywood Chinese Theatre Why Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner Deserve Chinese Theatre Cement Honor The list below (and the one on the next page) features those who have left their handprints and footprints at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. Curiously, during the studio era, most of the stars and directors who took part in the ceremony were employed by one of three [...]

David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes to Become BFI Fellows. [Right: Bette Davis.] The list of those who have received a British Film Institute Fellowship since it was first handed out in 1983 is quite extensive. [See below.] BFI Fellows include not only Britishers, but also numerous foreigners who have somehow or other been associated with either the film world or the BFI itself, among them directors [...]