The Poseidon Adventure Articles

Judy Garland in Ronald Neame's I Could Go on Singing Ronald Neame Dies The Horse's Mouth (1958) starred Venice Film Festival Best Actor winner Alec Guinness as an eccentric painter; the British Academy's Best British Film nominee Tunes of Glory (1960), with Guinness and John Mills in a not-very-flattering look at the British military; and the melodrama I Could Go on Singing (1963), pairing Dirk [...]

Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons in Ronald Neame's The Poseidon Adventure Ronald Neame, best-known for the 1972 blockbuster The Poseidon Adventure, died on Wednesday, June 16, at a hospital in Los Angeles. Neame, who never recovered after suffering a fall, was 99. In the grandiose and technically impressive (but slow-moving) disaster flick, Gene Hackman led an all-star cast through the bowels of a capsized [...]

Shelley Winters, winner of two best supporting actress Academy Awards, died of heart failure at the Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills on Jan. 14. In October, she had been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. She was 85. Besides her two Oscars — for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965) — Winters received two other nominations: in 1951 as [...]