Dirk Bogarde on TCM
Strangely, Dirk Bogarde never became a major star in the United States. I’m sure he was well known in the US in the ’50s and ’60s, but he wasn’t the superstar he was in Britain or the top star he was internationally. Perhaps Bogarde just didn’t care for Hollywood stardom — certainly not when in Europe he got to work for the likes of Joseph Losey, Luchino Visconti, Alain Resnais, Liliana Cavani, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John Schlesinger, Anthony Asquith, and the now all-but-forgotten but generally capable Basil Dearden.
Anyhow, today is Dirk Bogarde day as Turner Classic Movies continues with its "Summer Under the Stars" series, which features two TCM premieres later this evening: The Blue Lamp [...]
by Andre Soares | August 10, 2009
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Tags: Basil Dearden, Classic Movies, Darling, Dirk Bogarde, Gay Interest, Harold Pinter, Joseph Losey, Julie Christie, So Long at the Fair, TCM, The Servant, Turner Classic Movies
