Gregory Peck Articles

Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in Ernst Lubitsch’s The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg As a William & Kate tie-in, Turner Classic Movies is showing several royal weddings, romances, escapades, and heartbreaks this evening. Stanley Donen’s Royal Wedding (1951), starring Jane Powell, Fred Astaire, and Peter Lawford, is just about over. The best thing about the film is Fred Astaire dancing on walls and ceilings, a [...]

Gregory Peck Gregory Peck, Oscar winner for To Kill a Mockingbird, will be honored by the likes of Laura Dern, Sharon Stone, Morgan Freeman, and Natalie Maines at the First Day of Issue ceremony for the Gregory Peck Commemorative Stamp. The Peck stamp is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the United States Postal Service; the ceremony will [...]

Tyrone Power, Norma Shearer Tyrone Power I: Q&A with Maria Ciaccia Tyrone Power was a Fox contract player for nearly two decades. Were there any roles he wanted to get — whether at the studio or elsewhere — but that went to someone else? Any projects he wanted Darryl F. Zanuck to pursue, but that never came to fruition? You name it, he lost out [...]

Sunday, August 3, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: TCM’s "Summer Under the Stars" series continues with a day dedicated to Gregory Peck, one of the most underrated performers of the studio era. Peck frequently excelled in comedies and dramas, and was a rare (and welcome) specimen in American films: the cerebral — yet masculine and romantic — leading man. Unlike most major male stars then [...]