George Sidney Articles

Jane Powell, Howard Keel, and fellow Seven Brides for Seven Brothers cast members Howard Keel, best remembered for MGM musicals such as Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, is Turner Classic Movies' next-to-last "Summer Under the Stars" star. On Tuesday, August 30, TCM will be presenting 14 Howard Keel movies, including one TCM premiere — Charles Crichton's British crime drama [...]

Bobby Rydell, Ann-Margret, Bye Bye Birdie Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret: Restored BYE BYE BIRDIE Academy Screening Ann-Margret was a sensation at the 1962 Academy Awards ceremony while performing the nominated song "Bachelor in Paradise." The following year, she became a star with the release of George Sidney's musical Bye Bye Birdie. Looking at the picture above (click on the photo to enlarge it), [...]

Bye Bye Birdie lobby card (top); Bobby Rydell, Ann-Margret, Bye Bye Birdie (bottom) A digitally restored print of George Sidney's 1963 Elvis Presley-inspired satirical musical Bye Bye Birdie, starring Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Bobby Rydell, Maureen Stapleton, Jesse Pearson, and an explosive Ann-Margret, will have its premiere on Wednesday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel [...]

  "Summer Under the Stars" is over, but Kim Novak is the "star of tonight" on Turner Classic Movies. Five Novak vehicles released at the height of her stardom will be presented this evening: Joshua Logan's Oscar-nominated Picnic (1955), starring William Holden; Delbert Mann's drama Middle of the Night (1958), with Fredric March; Richard Quine's The Notorious Landlady (1962), with Fred Astaire and Jack Lemmon; [...]