Viva Villa! Articles

Marlon Brando, Jean Peters in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! Ramon Novarro in SCARAMOUCHE on TCM Following Scaramouche, Turner Classic Movies will show a Mexican feature set during the Revolution, Roberto Rodríguez's La Bandida (1963), starring Mexican legend María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, actor-filmmaker Emilio Fernández, and Lola Beltrán. And prior to Scaramouche, TCM is showing two Mexican Revolution films made in Hollywood: Elia Kazan's [...]

Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street FILM The Barretts of Wimpole Street d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart The Count of Monte Cristo d: Rowland V. Lee; scr: Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh, Rowland V. Lee The Gay Divorcee d: Mark Sandrich; scr: George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, Edward Kaufman Hide-out d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Albert Hackett, [...]

Fay Wray Pt.1: KING KONG Star, Scream Queen of the 1930s Fay Wray (photo) was also featured opposite the fast-rising Gary Cooper in four movies: William A. Wellman's Legion of the Condemned (1928), Rowland V. Lee's romance The First Kiss (1928), John Cromwell's Western The Texan (1930), and Stephen Roberts' slice of nostalgia One Sunday Afternoon (1933). Unlike Cooper, however, Wray was never to become [...]