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
Fred Zinnemann: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
Fred Zinnemann began his career during the studio era, but kept on going, however sporadically, long after most of his contemporaries had retired. Even so, today his name means little for most audiences and critics alike. Why?
Quite possibly because, like William Wyler’s, Zinnemann’s relatively small oeuvre (21 narrative feature films) covers just about every film genre there is: Western (High Noon), romance (From Here to Eternity), socially conscious drama (The Search), historical drama (A Man for All Seasons), adventure (Five Days One Summer), thriller (The Day of the Jackal), crime (Act of Violence), comedy (My Brother Talks to Horses), and musical (Oklahoma).
Most film critics and historians are no different than most simpletons. They tend to value work that can be [...]
by Andre Soares | January 28, 2007
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Tags: Academy Awards, Burt Lancaster, Classic Movies, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Film Awards, Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity, Gary Cooper, High Noon
