John Mills Articles

BAFTA Fellowship: Few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood, Steven Spielberg Before Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder [Photo: Laurence Olivier] 1971 Alfred Hitchcock 1972 Freddie Young 1973 Grace Wyndham Goldie 1974 David Lean 1975 Jacques Cousteau 1976 Charles Chaplin, Laurence Olivier 1977 Denis Forman 1978 Fred Zinnemann 1979 Lew Grade, Huw Wheldon 1980 David Attenborough, John Huston 1981 Abel Gance, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1982 Andrzej [...]

John Mills in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi John Mills on TCM: I WAS MONTY'S DOUBLE, RYAN'S DAUGHTER, HOBSON'S CHOICE Schedule (PT) and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 AM Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) A cold-hearted teacher becomes the school favorite when he's thawed by a beautiful young woman. Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-114 mins. 5:00 AM Hobson's Choice (1954) A [...]

Unfortunately, nine of the ten John Mills films to be shown on Turner Classic Movies as part of their month-long "Summer Under the Stars" series on Sunday, Aug. 22, are reruns. The one exception is I Was Monty's Double, a 1958 John Guillermin-directed World War II drama. [John Mills schedule.] I Was Monty's Double sounds like a particularly curious effort because it's based on a [...]

Kurt Kasznar, Charles Boyer, Bobby Driscoll, Marsha Hunt, Louis Jourdan, The Happy Time Louis Jourdan, LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN on TCM While I'm at it, make sure to catch Richard Fleischer's nostalgic 1952 comedy-drama The Happy Time, which stars Louis Jourdan, Charles Boyer, Bobby Driscoll, and Marsha Hunt, right at the time her film career was ruined by the anti-Red hysteria of the 1950s. [...]