Jane Wyman Articles

Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, The Haunting The Movies’ Top Ten Scream Queens 10 – Mary Philbin, The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Okay, so this is a silent film; in other words, Universal star Mary Philbin's screaming was all in my head. But it worked. Lon Chaney at his most grotesque had the title role; Norman Kerry was Philbin's dashing leading man. Rupert Julian directed. [...]

Stephen McNally, Jane Wyman in Jean Negulesco's Johnny Belinda Jane Wyman, unfairly known by many merely as Ronald Reagan's first wife, is the "star of the day" on Turner Classic Movies on Tuesday, Jan. 4. TCM will be presenting eight Wyman vehicles beginning at 3 a.m. Pacific Time. Those range from the B comedy He Couldn't Say No (1938) to Wyman's most famous film, Johnny [...]

CELEBRITIES IN THE 1930 CENSUS Q&A: Part I What does the 1930 census tell us about those people? Specifically, it's a snapshot of each celebrity's life on one specific day — April 1, 1930. As I put this book together, I had to decide which information I would include from the census. I realized that listing the answers to all 32 questions would not be [...]

Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford in Gilda FILM Anna and the King of Siam d: John Cromwell; scr: Talbot Jennings, Sally Benson The Best Years of Our Lives d: William Wyler; scr: Robert E. Sherwood Cloak and Dagger d: Fritz Lang; scr: Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner Jr. From This Day Forward d: John Berry; scr: Hugo Butler, Garson Kanin Gilda d: Charles Vidor; scr: Marion Parsonnet [...]