Jeanne Crain Articles

Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Hollywood Chinese Theatre Why Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner Deserve Chinese Theatre Cement Honor The list below (and the one on the next page) features those who have left their handprints and footprints at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. Curiously, during the studio era, most of the stars and directors who took part in the ceremony were employed by one of three [...]

Elia Kazan 24 Acting Nominations (s), supporting category (*) Academy Award winner Elia Kazan: Top Oscar Directors for Actors   James Dean, Jo Van Fleet, East of Eden 1945 * James Dunn (s), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Additionally, Peggy Ann Garner won a special "juvenile" Oscar for her 1945 performances, including A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)   1947 Gregory Peck, Gentleman's Agreement Dorothy McGuire, [...]

Jeanne Crain was one of 20th Century Fox's biggest stars of the 1940s and early 1950s — one who led a tragic life, not at all like her charmed (and charming) on-screen characters. Crain is also Turner Classic Movies "star of the evening" tonight, Jan. 7. I've always had a soft spot for Jeanne Crain. Anything she's in, I'd recommend. But the movies TCM is [...]

Claire Trevor, John Wayne in John Ford's Stagecoach (top); Joan Crawford in Michael Curtiz's Mildred Pierce (middle); Orson Welles in his own Citizen Kane Turner Classic Movies will show a rerun of Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood: Warriors & Peace Makers this evening at 7 p.m. This segment of the seven-part Moguls & Movie Stars documentary focuses on Hollywood before, during, and [...]