Lucille Ball Articles

Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris. The scandalous film was reviled by Lucille Ball, admired by Robert Altman, and reinterpreted by Ingmar Bergman Maria Schneider, best known for her sex scenes with Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972), died of cancer earlier today in Paris. Schneider was 58. [Addendum: In a strange coincidence, Lena Nyman, the [...]

At the San Francisco Chronicle’s blog/column The Collective Mind, Bob Bragman talks about the unearthing of Vivian Vance’s unpublished memoirs, which the I Love Lucy actress wanted to be out before her death in 1979. According to the piece, excerpts have showed up in the National Enquirer, but the rest remains unseen. It’s unclear whether or not the autobiography has been authenticated. Either way, Bragman [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3VbSfQ3nAM[/youtube] Beatrice Arthur, the witty television star in the hit shows Maude and The Golden Girls, and a Tony winner, died today at her Los Angeles home. Arthur, who was suffering from cancer, was 86. Born Bernice Frankel on May 16, 1922, (1923 according to some sources) in New York City, Arthur — generally known as Bea Arthur — first caught critics’ attention with her [...]

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 [...]