Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial
Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a special 50th anniversary screening of a recently restored print of Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor (above, and right, with Mankiewicz), and Montgomery Clift. The screening will take place on Thursday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The evening will also celebrate the recent gift of the Joseph L. Mankiewicz Papers to the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library. Turner Classic Movies host and The Young Turks co-creator Ben Mankiewicz, Joseph L.’s great nephew and grandson of Citizen Kane co-screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, will host [...]
by Andre Soares | May 1, 2009
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz Tribute: SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial – Part I
And if Guys and Dolls (1955) was a bore — just about everyone in this film musical is miscast, from Brando to Mankiewicz himself — the director recovered his touch with the adult (and bizarre) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), a psychotic psychological drama adapted by Gore Vidal and (officially) Tennessee Williams from Williams’s own play. (Williams later said he had nothing to do with the film version.)
The story follows a young woman (Elizabeth Taylor) who is sent to a psychiatric hospital after she suffers a nervous breakdown following some horrific traumatic experience. Things can get quite heady — bad pun intended — when you mix traditional Southern [...]
by Andre Soares | May 1, 2009
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Best Films – 1938
Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can’t Take It with You
FILM
The Adventures of Robin Hood
d: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; scr: Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine
Bringing Up Baby
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Dramatic School
d: Robert B. Sinclair; scr: Ernest Vajda, Mary McCall Jr.
L’Etrange Monsieur Victor
d: Jean Grémillon; scr: Albert Valentin, Charles Spaak, Marcel Achard
Four Daughters
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein
If I Were King
d: Frank Lloyd; scr: Preston Sturges
The Lady Vanishes
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Marie Antoinette
d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda
Vivacious Lady
d: George Stevens; scr: P. J. Wolfson, Ernest Pagano
You Can’t Take It with You
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
[...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Best Films – 1937
Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo in Camille
FILM
The Awful Truth
d, scr: Leo McCarey
Camille
d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, James Hilton, Zoe Akins
The Hurricane
d: John Ford; scr: Dudley Nichols, Oliver H. P. Garrett
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
d: Richard Boleslawski; scr: Leon Gordon, Samson Raphaelson, Monckton Hoffe
Lost Horizon
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
Night Must Fall
d: Richard Thorpe; scr: John Van Druten
Les Perles de la couronne / Pearls of the Crown
d: Sacha Guitry, Christian-Jacque; scr: Sacha Guitry
The Prisoner of Zenda
d: John Cromwell; scr: Wells Root, John G. Balderstone, Donald Ogden Stewart
Quality Street
d: George Stevens; scr: Mortimer Offner, Allan Scott
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
d: David Hand; scr: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon and others
A Star Is Born
d: William A. Wellman; scr: Dorothy Parker, [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A Star Is Born, Alan Campbell, Alan Mowbray, Alfred Newman, Alice Brady, Allan Scott, Anthony Veiller, Arletty, Bert Glennon, Best Films, Brian Aherne, Camille, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Christian-Jacque, Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, Colin Clive, Conquest, Constance Bennett, Cora Witherspoon, Dame May Whitty, David Hand, David Miller, Dead End, Dmitri Tiomkin, Donald Ogden Stewart, Dorothy Parker, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Dudley Nichols, Eddie Moran, Edward Ward, Eric Hatch, Erich von Stroheim, Ermete Zacconi, Ernest Vajda, Etienne Girardot, Eve Arden, Frances Marion, Frank Borzage, Frank Capra, Fredric March, George Cukor, George Stevens, Ginger Rogers, Grand Illusion, Gregg Toland, Gregory La Cava, Greta Garbo, Henry Daniell, Herbert Stothart, History Is Made at Night, Irene Dunne, Jack Jevne, James Hilton, James Whale, James Wong Howe, Janet Gaynor, Jean Gabin, Jeanette MacDonald, Joan Crawford, Joel McCrea, John Barrymore, John Cromwell, John Ford, John G. Balderstone, John Van Druten, Joseph Walker, Karl Freund, Katharine Hepburn, Kathleen Harrison, La Grande illusion, Lawrence Hazard, Leo McCarey, Leon Gordon, Les Perles de la couronne, Lillian Hellman, Lost Horizon, Lucille Ball, Luise Rainer, Mannequin, Maria Ouspenskaya, May Robson, Maytime, Merle Tottenham, Monckton Hoffe, Morrie Ryskind, Mortimer Offner, Neil Fitzgerald, Nelson Eddy, Night Must Fall, Noel Langley, Norman Z. McLeod, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Oliver T. Marsh, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Parnell, Pearls of the Crown, Penny Wisdom, Pierre Fresnay, Quality Street, Ray June, Richard Boleslawski, Richard Creedon, Richard Thorpe, Robert Carson, Robert Montgomery, Robert Riskin, Robert Taylor, Robert Z. Leonard, Ronald Colman, Roy Webb, Sacha Guitry, Samson Raphaelson, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Stage Door, Sylvia Sidney, Ted Sears, The Awful Truth, The Good Earth, The Great Garrick, The Hurricane, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The Old Mill, The Prisoner of Zenda, Topper, True Confession, Wells Root, Wilfred Jackson, William A. Wellman, William H. Daniels, William Powell, William Wyler, Zoe Akins
Best Films – 1935
Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Clark Gable in China Seas
FILM
Alice Adams
d: George Stevens; scr: Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner
China Seas
d: Tay Garnett; scr: Jules Furthman, James K. McGuinness
The Gay Deception
d: William Wyler; scr: Stephen Avery, Don Hartman
A Tale of Two Cities
d: Jack Conway; scr: W. P. Lipscomb, S. N. Behrman
The Whole Town’s Talking
d: John Ford; scr: Jo Swerling, Robert Riskin
Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones in A Night at the Opera
CHECK THESE OUT
Broadway Melody of 1936
d: Roy Del Ruth; scr: Jack McGowan, Sid Silvers
Lives of a Bengal Lancer
d: Henry Hathaway; scr: Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
d: Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle; scr: Charles Kenyon, Mary C. McCall Jr.
A Night at the Opera
d: Sam [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Night at the Opera, A Tale of Two Cities, Alice Adams, Alison Skipworth, Amphitryon, Anna Karenina, Becky Sharp, Best Films, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, Chester Lyons, China Seas, Classic Movies, David Copperfield, Dorothy Yost, Edna May Oliver, Edward G. Robinson, Ernestine Schuman-Heink, Ernst Toch, Frances Dee, Genevieve Tobin, George Stevens, Ginger Rogers, Glenda Farrell, Gold Diggers of 1935, Gregg Toland, Greta Garbo, Hal Mohr, Hattie McDaniel, Henry Hathaway, Herbert Marshall, Herbert Stothart, Here's to Romance, If You Could Only Cook, Jack Conway, James K. McGuinness, Jean Arthur, Jo Swerling, John Ford, Jules Furthman, Katharine Hepburn, Les Miserables, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Mad Love, Max Reinhardt, May Robson, Miriam Hopkins, Oliver T. Marsh, Peter Ibbetson, Peter Lorre, Ramon Novarro, Rendezvous, Robert Donat, Robert Riskin, Ronald Colman, Rosalind Russell, S. N. Behrman, Sam Wood, Tay Garnett, The Gay Deception, The Night Is Young, The Whole Town's Talking, W. P. Lipscomb, William Dieterle, William H. Daniels, William Wyler
THE AVIATOR Screening
Martin Scorsese’s 2004 Best Picture nominee The Aviator is the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Great To Be Nominated" series. The handsome but vapid Howard Hughes biopic will be screened on Monday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Following the screening, cast members Alec Baldwin, Jacob Davich, J.C. Mackenzie, and Amy Sloan, production sound mixer Petur Hliddal, special effects supervisor R. Bruce Steinheimer, and miniature effects supervisor Matthew Gratzner will take part in a discussion about the film.
The US$100-million-plus The Aviator wasn’t quite the hoped-for critical and box-office hit, though the biopic won numerous accolades and did good business thanks to the casting of Leonardo DiCaprio [...]
by Andre Soares | July 24, 2008
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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Adam Scott, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Ava Gardner, Biopic, Cate Blanchett, Danny Huston, Dante Ferretti, Edward Herrmann, Errol Flynn, Film Awards, Films on Filmmaking, Gwen Stefani, Howard Hughes, Ian Holm, Jacob Davich, Jean Harlow, John C. Reilly, John Logan, Jude Law, Kate Beckinsale, Katharine Hepburn, Kelli Garner, Leonardo DiCaprio, Los Angeles Screenings, Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Ralph Owen Brewster, Sandy Powell, Stanley DeSantis, The Aviator, Thelma Schoonmaker, Willem Dafoe
CELEBRITIES IN THE 1930 CENSUS: Q&A with Author Allan R. Ellenberger
As it says on the cover, Allan R. Ellenberger’s Celebrities in the 1930 Census (McFarland, 2008, US$49.95) is a compilation of household data — as collected by 1930 census takers — of more than 2,000 "U.S. actors, musicians, scientists, athletes, writers, politicians and other public figures." (The woman in the photo is aviatrix Amelia Earhart.)
The book, of course, doesn’t offer any saucy insights into the lives of those people. Instead, it’s a straightforward amalgam of un-dramatic — but important — information for researchers. (Though non-researchers may find the myriad listings addictive as well.)
For instance, when I wrote the Ramon Novarro (above right) biography Beyond Paradise, I didn’t have access to the 1930 census, which became part of the public record [...]
by Andre Soares | February 27, 2008
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Tags: Allan Ellenberger, Books, Celebrities in the 1930 Census, Florence Vidor, Interviews, Katharine Hepburn, Marie Dressler, McFarland, Ramon Novarro, Upton Sinclair
Oscar Answers #3, 4, 5
Oscar Answer No. 3
John Huston (right), from Moulin Rouge (1952) to Prizzi’s Honor (1985), a total of 33 years.
In 1952, Huston lost the Oscar to John Ford for The Quiet Man, and in 1985 to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa. Huston, however, did win for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
Roman Polanski comes in second, from Tess (1980) to The Pianist (2002), 22 years; and Joseph L. Mankiewicz in third, from 5 Fingers (1952) to Sleuth (1972), 20 years.
In fourth place, with a 19-year gap between nominations, it’s a tie: Otto Preminger, from Laura in 1944 to The Cardinal in 1963; and David Lean, from Doctor Zhivago in 1965 to A Passage to [...]
by Andre Soares | February 11, 2007
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Tags: Academy Awards, Classic Movies, Film Awards, John Huston, Katharine Hepburn, Michael Curtiz, Morning Glory, On Golden Pond, Oscar Quiz, Paul Newman, Roman Polanski, Steven Soderbergh
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
George Cukor: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his considerable output either relegated to the sidelines or simply dismissed by those who like their directors macho and their films male-centered. Not helping matters is the general perception that Cukor was merely a hired hand for the likes of David O. Selznick at RKO and Louis B. Mayer at MGM, not an auteur following a clear professional path. Except, of course, for the (assumed) fact that he was a woman’s director — and we’re back to square one.
In truth, George Cukor was one of the most remarkable directors of the studio era. Like Elia Kazan, Cukor served his apprenticeship in the theater, thus developing into an excellent actor’s director. [...]
by Andre Soares | January 28, 2007
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Tags: Academy Awards, Born Yesterday, Classic Movies, David Manners, Film Awards, Gay Interest, George Cukor, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn, Marie Dressler
Meet the Oscars in Los Angeles
In February, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be displaying fifty new Oscars, four statuettes that belonged to record-breaker Katharine Hepburn, two Testimonial Awards, and one statuette for visitors to hold while being photographed for posterity. The exhibition, named "Meet the Oscars, Los Angeles," will take place between Feb. 9-24 on the third level of the Hollywood & Highland Center.
As per the Academy’s press release, the exhibition will also include interactive "Oscar trivia" kiosks, "where visitors can test their knowledge of Oscar winners, movie quotes and Academy Awards factoids." (Test your Oscar knowledge — or lack thereof — here.)
By the way, Katharine Hepburn’s Oscars were for her performances in Morning Glory (1932-33), Guess Who’s Coming [...]
by Andre Soares | January 18, 2007
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Tags: Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Film Awards, Katharine Hepburn, Los Angeles Screenings
Jean Parker
Actress Jean Parker died on Nov. 30 following a stroke. She was 90.
Parker is perhaps best remembered as one of the four sisters — Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, and Frances Dee were the other three (above, with Spring Byington’s Marmee) — in the George Cukor-directed 1933 version of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Although never a major star, Parker’s film career lasted more than two decades.
Much information about Jean Parker’s early years differs according to the source. She was born either Lois Mae Green (as per an IMDb bio apparently written by her son) or Louise Stephanie Zelinska (as per the Associated Press obit) in either Deer Lodge or Butte, Montana, on most probably August 11, 1915 [...]
by Andre Soares | December 11, 2005
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Tags: Classic Movies, Jean Parker, Joan Bennett, Katharine Hepburn, Lady for a Day, Little Women, May Robson, Sequoia, The Ghost Goes West, The Gunfighter
THE AVIATOR Notes: Howard Hughes’ Hollywood
Tommy Lee Jones plays Howard Hughes (above, lower photo) in the TV movie The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977); Jason Robards plays the old and haggard Hughes in Melvin and Howard (1980), for which he received an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actor; George Peppard plays a fictionalized Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964); and Robert Ryan plays another Hughes clone in Caught (1949).
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Initially, Michael Mann was going to direct The Aviator, but ended up co-producing it instead. Two of Mann’s recent biopics, The Insider (1999) and Ali (2001) were major box-office disappointments.
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Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow were reportedly scheduled to play Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner, respectively. (Some reports have Paltrow as Hepburn, and Kidman as [...]
by Andre Soares | December 16, 2004
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Tags: Classic Movies, Howard Hughes, Irvin Willat, Jean Harlow, Jean Peters, Katharine Hepburn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Terry Moore, The Aviator, The Carpetbaggers
THE AVIATOR – Leonardo DiCaprio – d: Martin Scorsese
The Aviator (2004)
Direction: Martin Scorsese
Screenplay: John Logan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kelli Garner, Gwen Stefani, Ian Holm, Adam Scott, Frances Conroy, Willem Dafoe, Jacob Davich, Jude Law, John C. Reilly, Edward Herrmann, Stanley DeSantis, Danny Huston, Matt Ross
WHAT’S NOT GOOD FOR THE SPRUCE GOOSE. . .
Imagine Citizen Kane directed by Steven Spielberg. The final result would look something like a Barry Levinson film — for instance, the superficial and glitzy Bugsy. Or the superficial, glitzy, and bloated The Aviator. Except, of course, that Levinson is not the man responsible for the mega-production starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eccentric, billionaire ladies’ man Howard Hughes. Strangely enough, that man is Martin Scorsese, the director of hard-hitting [...]
by Andre Soares | December 15, 2004
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Tags: Alan Alda, Biopic, Cate Blanchett, Film Reviews, Films on Filmmaking, Howard Hughes, Kate Beckinsale, Katharine Hepburn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Oscar 2004, Oscar Movies, The Aviator
Best Films – 1955
The guilty pleasure of all guilty pleasures. An unabashedly sentimental story about East meets West, a bland performance by leading man William Holden (Sunset Boulevard, Network), an awful (and awfully long) title. That’s 20th Century Fox’s Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. Yet, the film does offer gorgeous locations (Hong Kong and surrounding areas), superb color cinematography (Leon Shamroy), a rousing, romantic score (Alfred Newman), several good directorial touches (Henry King), and a beautifully modulated performance by leading lady Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette, Carrie). A huge hit at the time of its release, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is the type of movie that will either make you sick or touch you profoundly. Come to think of it, chances [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: All That Heaven Allows, Anna Magnani, Best Films, Classic Movies, Eleanor Parker, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Sinatra, Jennifer Jones, Katharine Hepburn, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Marilyn Monroe, Michelangelo Antonioni, Rosalind Russell, The Private War of Major Benson
Best Films – 1949
Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn in Adam’s Rib
FILM
Adam’s Rib
d: George Cukor; scr: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
The Heiress
d: William Wyler; scr: Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz
I Was a Male War Bride
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer, Hagar Wilde, Leonard Spiegelglass
On the Town
d: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly; scr: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
The Passionate Friends
d: David Lean; scr: Eric Ambler
Passport to Pimlico
d: Henry Cornelius; scr: T. E. B. Clarke
A Run for Your Money
d: Charles Frend; scr: Richard Hughes, Charles Frend, Leslie Norman
The Set-Up
d: Robert Wise; scr: Art Cohn
Whisky Galore
d: Alexander Mackendrick; scr: Compton Mackenzie, Angus Macphail
White Heat
d: Raoul Walsh; scr: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
Rudy Vallee, Olga San Juan, Betty Grable in The Beautiful [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: Adam's Rib, Ann Todd, Best Films, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, James Cagney, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn, Margaret Rutherford, Passport to Pimlico, T. E. B. Clarke, The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, The Passionate Friends, White Heat
Best Films – 1948
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan in Letter from an Unknown Woman
FILM
Anna Karenina
d: Julien Duvivier; scr: Jean Anouilh, Guy Morgan, Julien Duvivier
Cry of the City
d: Robert Siodmak; scr: Richard Murphy
Johnny Belinda
d: Jean Negulesco; scr: Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent
Key Largo
d: John Huston; scr: Richard Brooks, John Huston
Ladri di biciclette / The Bicycle Thief
d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Oreste Biancoli, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Vittorio De Sica, Adolfo Franci, Gherardo Gherardi, Gerardo Guerrieri, Cesare Zavattini
Letter from an Unknown Woman
d: Max Ophüls; scr: Howard Koch
Portrait of Jennie
d: William Dieterle; scr: Peter Berneis, Paul Osborn, Leonard Berrovici
State of the Union
d: Frank Capra; scr: Anthony Veiller, Myles Connolly
The Winslow Boy
d: Anthony Asquith; scr: Terence Rattigan, Anatole de Grunwald
Joan [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: A Foreign Affair, Adolfo Franci, Alec Guinness, Alessandro Cicognini, Allen Vincent, Anatole de Grunwald, Anatole Litvak, Angela Lansbury, Anna Karenina, Anthony Asquith, Anthony Veiller, Barbara Stanwyck, Best Films, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Cecil Parker, Cedric Hardwicke, Celeste Holm, Cesare Zavattini, Charles Bickford, Charles Brackett, Charles Frend, Charles Lawton Jr., Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, Cry of the City, Daniele Amfitheatrof, David Wechsler, Desmond Dickinson, DeWitt Bodeen, Edith Evanston, Edward G. Robinson, Elsa Lanchester, Enzo Staiola, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Capra, Franz Planer, Fred Zinnemann, Fritz Lang, George Sidney, George Stevens, Gerardo Guerrieri, Gherardo Gherardi, Guy Morgan, H. C. Potter, Hamlet, Henri Alekan, Hope Emerson, Howard Koch, I Remember Mama, Irene Dunne, Irmgard von Cube, Ivan Jandl, Jane Wyman, Jean Anouilh, Jean Arthur, Jean Negulesco, Jennifer Jones, Joan Bennett, Joan Fontaine, John Farrow, John Huston, John Ireland, Johnny Belinda, Jonathan Latimer, Joseph Cotten, Joseph H. August, Julien Duvivier, Karl Freund, Katharine Hepburn, Key Largo, Kiss the Blood off My Hands, Ladri di biciclette, Lamberto Maggiorani, Leonard Berrovici, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Lionel Barrymore, Lucille Fletcher, Marlene Dietrich, Max Ophüls, Melvin Frank, Melvyn Douglas, Michèle Morgan, Mildred Natwick, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Myles Connolly, Norman Panama, Oliver Twist, Oreste Biancoli, Orson Welles, Paul Osborn, Peter Berneis, Portrait of Jennie, Quartet, Ralph Richardson, Red River, Richard Breen, Richard Brooks, Richard Leacock, Richard Murphy, Richard Schweizer, Rita Hayworth, Robert Ardrey, Robert Donat, Robert Planck, Robert Siodmak, Russell Metty, Scott of the Antarctic, Secret Beyond the Door, Silvia Richards, Sonia Dresdel, Sorry Wrong Number, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Cortez, State of the Union, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Terence Rattigan, The Bicycle Thief, The Big Clock, The Fallen Idol, The Kissing Bandit, The Lady from Shanghai, The Louisiana Story, The Search, The Snake Pit, The Three Musketeers, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Winslow Boy, Thomas Gomez, Vittorio De Sica, Vivien Leigh, Walter Huston, William Dieterle
