George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey Articles
George Stevens on TCM: THE TALK OF THE TOWN, WOMAN OF THE YEAR, SWING TIME
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur The Talk of the Town (top); Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn Woman of the Year (bottom) George Stevens' monthlong homage ends this evening on Turner Classic Movies. The screening films are the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical Swing Time (1936); three early 1940s comedies, Woman of the Year (1942), The Talk of the Town (1942), and The More the Merrier (1943); and the [...]
George Stevens on TCM: GIANT, SHANE, ANNIE OAKLEY
James Dean Giant (top); Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin Shane (bottom) George Stevens will be the star attraction of Turner Classic Movies' Monday evenings in April. The series begins tonight at 5 p.m. PDT with a showing of Giant (1956), one of Stevens' best-known films. Some find this tale of oil, ranching, and greed bloated; I found it highly enjoyable despite — or perhaps [...]
George Stevens DVDs: GUNGA DIN, I REMEMBER MAMA
On December 7, Warner Home Video releases for the first time on DVD four titles by (or about) Academy Award-winning director George Stevens: Gunga Din (right, 1939), an adventure tale with Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Victor McLaglen, and Joan Fontaine; I Remember Mama (1948), a family drama with Oscar-nominated Irene Dunne delivering one of the best performances of her remarkable career (as the remembered [...]