The High and the Mighty Articles

Model and actress Doe Avedon Siegel, best known for her marriages to photographer Richard Avedon and to Dirty Harry movie director Don Siegel, died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 86. Born Dorcas Nowell (on April 7, 1928) in Westbury, New York, she was discovered by Avedon, who married her in 1944. (Avedon herself told journalists she began her acting career while working as a [...]

William A. Wellman's aviation drama The High and the Mighty Paramount Home Entertainment and Paramount’s Worldwide Television Distribution, in association with John Wayne’s old Batjac Productions, will be distributing several Wayne titles on DVD beginning in spring 2005. The upcoming releases include: Island in the Sky (1953), a rarely seen adventure film about a plane crash in sub-Arctic Canada; Hondo (1953), a Western based on [...]