Joey Luft at THE WIZARD OF OZ Screening
Lollipop Guild member Jerry Maren, Judy Garland’s son Joey Luft
Judy Garland’s son Joey Luft, Garland’s grandchildren Jesse and Vanessa Richards, Lollipop Guild member Jerry Maren, and Emerald City manicurist Dorothy Barrett were present at the "Hollywood’s Greatest Year" screening of The Wizard of Oz presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday, August 3, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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Joey Luft
Academy director of special projects Randy Haberkamp, Jerry Maren
Dorothy Barrett, an Emerald City manicurist in The Wizard of Oz
Jesse Richards, Vanessa Richards, Judy Garland’s grandchildren
by Deborah Arthur | August 27, 2009
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Tags: Dorothy Barrett, Jerry Maren, Jesse Richards, Joey Luft, Judy Garland, Photos, Randy Haberkamp, The Wizard of Oz, Vanessa Richards
Judy Garland on TCM
Judy Garland vehicles are a Turner Classic Movies staple, so the "Summer Under the Stars" day — Thursday, Aug. 6 — dedicated to the star of The Wizard of Oz and A Star Is Born brings nothing new.
Yet, those who have never watched or who don’t mind watching yet again and again some of Judy Garland’s classics and not-so-classics might want to check out or rewatch Meet Me in St. Louis (above, 1944), The Clock (1945), Summer Stock (1950), A Child Is Waiting (1962), and I Could Go On Singing (1963).
Directed by Garland’s soon-to-be husband, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis is a charming — if a little overlong — family musical. By that I don’t [...]
by Andre Soares | August 5, 2009
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Tags: A Child Is Waiting, Classic Movies, I Could Go on Singing, Judy Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis, Robert Walker, Strike Up the Band, Summer Stock, Summer Under the Stars, TCM, The Clock, Turner Classic Movies
Judy Garland in THE WIZARD OF OZ Screening
Starring Judy Garland and directed by Victor Fleming, the 1939 Best Picture nominee The Wizard of Oz will be screened, digitally from a new 4K restoration, as the final feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, August 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Jerry Maren, who portrayed one of the Lollipop Guild members in Munchkinland, will be present for a short Q&A before the film.
The evening will begin at 6:45 p.m., and will include videotaped interviews with Margaret Hamilton and Ray Bolger from a 1983 Academy event; the [...]
by Andre Soares | July 29, 2009
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Tags: Billie Burke, Classic Movies, Gay Interest, Judy Garland, Los Angeles Screenings, Oscar 1939, Oscar Movies, Shirley Temple, Three-Star Oscar Movies, Victor Fleming
Costume Design in the Digital Age in Hollywood
Left to right: Costume worn by Danny Kaye in The Inspector General (1949), designed by Travilla. Costume worn by Viveca Lindfors in The Adventures of Don Juan (1948), designed by Leah Rhodes. Costume worn by Natalie Wood in The Great Race (1965). designed by Edith Head. Costume worn by Judy Garland in A Star is Born (1954), designed by Irene Sharaff. Costume worn by Frank Sinatra in 4 for Texas (1963), designed by Norma Koch.
"Costume Design in the Digital Age" is the title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences program presenting the "opportunities and challenges facing motion picture costume designers working in the current era of digital [...]
by Andre Soares | April 16, 2009
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Tags: 4 for Texas, A Star Is Born, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Audrey Hepburn, Bill Taylor, Costume Designers, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Ellen Mirojnick, Irene Sharaff, Jeffrey Kurland, Judy Garland, Linwood Dunn, Los Angeles Screenings, Michael Wilkinson, My Fair Lady, Natalie Wood, Norma Koch, Ruth Myers, Travilla, Viveca Lindfors
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009: DOLLS, THE DEVIL’S CLEAVAGE
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Saturday, March 28, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
Dolls
Directed by:
Karin Babinská
Cast:
Marie Dolezalová, Sandra Nováková, Petra Nesvacilova
Country:
Czech Republic
Year:
2007
Running time:
99min
This debut feature from Karin Babinská is a beautifully made and poignant coming of age tale, about three best friends from high school embarking on their last summer together before going their separate ways at summer’s end. Iska, struggling to understand her burgeoning sexuality and why she feels different from other girls, has been forced to join her little brother Vojta at a summer camp for athletes. Whilst he can back flip and somersault like a pro, the timid Iska can barely hold her own against a punch [...]
by Andre Soares | March 26, 2009
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Tags: Dolls, Film Festivals, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, George Kuchar, Gregory J. Markopoulos, I Could Go on Singing, Judy Garland, Karin Babinska, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London Screenings, Patrik 1.5, Three Summers, Twice a Man, Wrestling
Meet the Oscars
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The fifty Oscar statuettes to be presented at the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony next February 24 — the one above is not one of them — will be on display at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Meet the Oscars" exhibition beginning Friday, February 1. The exhibition will be located on the fourth level of the Hollywood & Highland Center — in Hollywood, where else? — through Saturday, February 23. Admission is free.
Visitors will be given the chance of holding an actual Oscar statuette while pretending they are Tom Cruise or Cameron Diaz (neither of whom has ever won an Academy Award). The exhibition will also feature interactive Oscar trivia kiosks, the Honorary Award that will [...]
by Andre Soares | January 18, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Film Awards, Frank Borzage, Judy Garland, Los Angeles Screenings, Meet the Oscars
George Cukor’s Oscar Nominated Actors
George Cukor
21 Acting Nominations
(s) supporting category
(*) Academy Award winner
George Cukor: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
1930-31
Fredric March The Royal Family of Broadway (co-directed with Cyril Gardner)
1936
Norma Shearer Romeo and Juliet
Basil Rathbone (s) Romeo and Juliet
1937
Greta Garbo (above, with Robert Taylor) Camille
1940
James Stewart The Philadelphia Story *
Katharine Hepburn (above, with Stewart and Cary Grant) The Philadelphia Story
Ruth Hussey (s) The Philadelphia Story
1944
Charles Boyer Gaslight
Ingrid Bergman Gaslight *
Angela Lansbury (s) Gaslight
1947
Ronald Colman A Double Life *
1949
Deborah Kerr Edward, My Son
1950
Judy Holliday Born Yesterday *
1954
James Mason A Star Is Born
Judy Garland A Star Is Born
1957
Anthony Quinn Wild Is the Wind
Anna Magnani Wild Is the Wind
1964
Rex Harrison (above, with Audrey Hepburn) My Fair Lady *
Stanley Holloway (s) My Fair Lady
Gladys Cooper (s) [...]
by Andre Soares | January 28, 2007
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Tags: A Star Is Born, Academy Awards, Audrey Hepburn, Camille, Classic Movies, Film Awards, George Cukor, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, My Fair Lady, Norma Shearer, The Philadelphia Story
Best Films – 1944
John Hodiak, Tallulah Bankhead in Lifeboat
FILM
I Bambini ci guardano / The Children Are Watching Us
d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Adolfo Franci, Margherita Maglione, Gherardo Gherardi
Crime by Night
d: William Clemens; scr: Joel Malone, Richard Weil
Dragon Seed
d: Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway; scr: Jane Murfin, Marguerite Roberts
Laura
d: Otto Preminger; scr: Jay Dratter, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt
Lifeboat
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: Jo Swerling
Mr. Skeffington
d: Vincent Sherman; scr: Julius J. Epstein, Phillip G. Epstein
This Happy Breed
d: David Lean; scr: Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame
The Uninvited
d: Lewis Allen; scr: Dodie Smith
Jennifer Jones, Robert Walker, Joseph Cotten in Since You Went Away
CHECK THESE OUT
Arsenic and Old Lace
d: Frank Capra; scr: Julius J. Epstein, Phillip G. Epstein
Home in [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: Adolfo Franci, Alfred Hitchcock, Alison Leggart, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Arsenic and Old Lace, Barry Fitzgerald, Best Films, Bette Davis, Betty Reinhardt, Carmen Miranda, Celia Johnson, Cesare Giulio Viola, Cesare Zavattini, Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Claudette Colbert, Crime by Night, Dame May Whitty, David Lean, David Raksin, Dodie Smith, Double Indemnity, Dragon Seed, Edward G. Robinson, Emilio Fernandez, Ernest Haller, Faye Emerson, Francisco Dominguez, Gabriel Figueroa, Gary Cooper, Gaslight, Gene Tierney, George Barnes, George J. Folsey, Gherardo Gherardi, Going My Way, Henry Daniell, Henry Hathaway, Home in Indiana, I Bambini ci guardano, Irving Brecher, Jane Eyre, Jane Murfin, Jay Dratter, Jean Adair, Jeanne Crain, Jerome Cowan, Jo Swerling, John Cromwell, Joseph LaShelle, Joseph Ruttenberg, Josephine Hull, Judy Garland, Julius J. Epstein, Laird Cregar, Laura, Lee Garmes, Leon Ames, Lewis Allen, Lifeboat, Lucien Ballard, Maria Candelaria, Marjorie Main, Meet Me in St. Louis, Mr. Skeffington, Mrs. Parkington, Murder My Sweet, Otto Preminger, Peter Lorre, Phantom Lady, Phillip G. Epstein, Portrait of Maria, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Renzo Rossellini, Robert Siodmak, Samuel Hoffenstein, Since You Went Away, Something for the Boys, Stanley Cortez, Tallulah Bankhead, The Children Are Watching Us, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Lodger, The Suspect, The Uninvited, The White Cliffs of Dover, This Happy Breed, Victor Young, Vincent Sherman, Vincente Minnelli, Vittorio De Sica, Vivian Blaine, Walter Slezak, Winston Miller
