The Big Sleep Articles
Lauren Bacall on TCM: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, THE BIG SLEEP
Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart in Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep Lauren Bacall, hardly a top box-office attraction in the 1940s or 1950s, but a major "Old Hollywood" star today, will have her Turner Classic Movies "Summer Under the Stars" day on Wed., Aug. 25. [Lauren Bacall schedule.] Bacall is so prestigious nowadays that she even won an Honorary Oscar last year, a distinction hardly ever [...]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on TCM: Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne Movies
Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will join Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne to present four of his favorite films in TCM's "Guest Programmer" series on Monday, March 22. Most "Guest Programmer" evenings are devoted to the best-known old classics, and Abdul-Jabbar (and Raquel Welch's on April 1) will be no exception. Abdul-Jabbar's tough-guy flicks consist of two of Humphrey Bogart's and two of John Wayne's [...]
Best Films – 1946
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford in Gilda FILM Anna and the King of Siam d: John Cromwell; scr: Talbot Jennings, Sally Benson The Best Years of Our Lives d: William Wyler; scr: Robert E. Sherwood Cloak and Dagger d: Fritz Lang; scr: Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner Jr. From This Day Forward d: John Berry; scr: Hugo Butler, Garson Kanin Gilda d: Charles Vidor; scr: Marion Parsonnet [...]