Shadows of Russia Schedule
Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate
Below is the complete "Shadows of Russia" schedule on Turner Classic Movies:
Wednesday, Jan. 6
Part One: Twilight of the Tsars
8 p.m. The Scarlet Empress (1934) – starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lodge.
10 p.m. Rasputin and the Empress (1932) – starring John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore.
Part Two: Red Romance
12:15 a.m. Red Danube (1949) – starring Walter Pidgeon and Ethel Barrymore.
2:30 a.m. Reds (1981) – starring Warren Beatty, Diane [...]
by Andre Soares | November 4, 2009
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Angela Lansbury on TCM
Angela Lansbury’s "Summer Under the Stars" day is Sunday, Aug. 23.
Thanks to the popular TV series Murder She Wrote, Angela Lansbury became a bigger star in the last two decades than she ever was during her heyday as an MGM contract player in the 1940s, supporting (or antagonizing) the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Ironically, most people today probably know who Angela Lansbury is, while names such as Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr, and Greer Garson — three of MGM’s top stars of that era — have dimmed (at least) somewhat.
Turner Classic Movies‘ Angela Lansbury Day will offer only one TCM premiere: A Lawless Street (1955), a minor Joseph H. Lewis Western starring Randolph Scott. [...]
by Andre Soares | August 18, 2009
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Tags: Angela Lansbury, Classic Movies, Gaslight, Season of Passion, Something for Everyone, Summer of the 17th Doll, Summer Under the Stars, The Manchurian Candidate, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Turner Classic Movies
Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh, whose shower scene in Psycho has become part of cinema’s pop iconography, died yesterday, Oct. 3, at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 77. In the past year, Leigh had been suffering from vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.
Though best remembered as the greedy (and unlucky) office worker who gets stabbed a zillion times in the shower in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), a role for which she received a best supporting actress Oscar nomination, Leigh had a remarkable career that spanned more than five decades.
Remarkable indeed, considering that after being discovered by former MGM Queen Norma Shearer while at a ski resort in the late 1940s, Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison [...]
by Andre Soares | October 4, 2004
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THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE – Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Direction: Jonathan Demme
Screenplay: Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris, from George Axelrod’s 1962 screenplay and Richard Condon’s 1959 novel
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Kimberly Elise, Bruno Ganz, Ted Levine, Vera Farmiga, Miguel Ferrer, Dean Stockwell, Simon McBurney
Denzel Washington in The Manchurian Candidate
While keeping the framework of the 1962 original, Jonathan Demme’s remake of John Frankenheimer’s political thriller The Manchurian Candidate has revamped the plot so as to create parallels between what takes place on-screen and current events. The results are mixed at best.
In the new version, adapted by Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris from George Axelrod’s 1962 screenplay and Richard Condon’s 1959 Cold War novel, U.S. Army [...]
by Andre Soares | September 17, 2004
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Tags: Bruno Ganz, Dean Stockwell, Denzel Washington, Film Reviews, John Frankenheimer, Jon Voight, Jonathan Demme, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Political Movies, The Manchurian Candidate