Don Murray Articles

Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde in Basil Dearden's Victim 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan is in the news today because of viciously anti-gay remarks he made while performing a comedy routine in Tennessee, a state where gays and lesbians have seen their civil rights attacked by right-wing Christians/Republicans on various fronts. Coincidentally, Turner Classic Movies is showing three movies about a time decades ago when gays were [...]

Don Murray, Charles Laughton, Advise & Consent Advise & Consent (1962) Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies: Introduction Especially after his departure from 20th Century Fox in the early 1950s, Otto Preminger set out to break one taboo after another. He took on the Production Code Administration when he released the 1953 sex comedy The Moon Is Blue without a seal of approval, cast [...]

Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, A Hatful of Rain Don Murray (Oscar nominee for Bus Stop) and Eva Marie Saint (Oscar winner for On the Waterfront) are scheduled to be present for a discussion at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica this evening following a screening of Fred Zinnemann's 1957 drama A Hatful of Rain, which stars Murray, Saint, Best Actor Oscar nominee Anthony Franciosa, [...]

A HATFUL OF RAIN Review Part I Maybe because nearly every line screams theater!, Anthony Franciosa, Don Murray, and Lloyd Nolan act as if they were performing onstage for those sitting in the last row. As mentioned above, among the four leads only Eva Marie Saint (right) manages against all odds to deliver an unaffected performance. Had Saint been a lazy actress, she could easily [...]