Franz Planer Articles

Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan Letter from an Unknown Woman Louis Jourdan is Turner Classic Movies' star of the evening, which has just kicked off with a showing of Vincente Minnelli's 1958 multiple Oscar-winning musical Gigi, co-starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier. But the highlight of the Louis Jourdan evening comes later, with the 7:15 p.m. (Pacific Time) TCM premiere of Max Ophüls' haunting Letter from [...]

Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street FILM The Barretts of Wimpole Street d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart The Count of Monte Cristo d: Rowland V. Lee; scr: Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh, Rowland V. Lee The Gay Divorcee d: Mark Sandrich; scr: George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, Edward Kaufman Hide-out d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Albert Hackett, [...]