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Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn, who died of congestive heart failure at his New York City home on Tuesday, Sept. 28, at age 88, is best known for the 1967 classic Bonnie and Clyde, whose explicit violence was supposed to reflect the then-raging Vietnam War (or so those involved in the film claim). Now, despite its undeniable qualities — [...]

Good news for LA-based film noirs fans: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off a summer screening series, "Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood’s Dark Side," on Monday, May 10, with a big-screen presentation of John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet. The 15-film series, which will run through August 30, will showcase 1940s [...]

Virginia Mayo, James Cagney, White Heat Virginia Mayo, an actress in a number of Technicolor productions of the 1940s and 1950s, died today at a nursing home in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks. Mayo, who was 84, had been in poor health since contracting pneumonia a year ago. Beginning her career as a chorus girl, the honey-blonde Virginia Mayo (born Virginia Clara Jones [...]

Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn in Adam's Rib FILM Adam's Rib d: George Cukor; scr: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin The Heiress d: William Wyler; scr: Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz I Was a Male War Bride d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer, Hagar Wilde, Leonard Spiegelglass On the Town d: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly; scr: Betty Comden, Adolph Green The Passionate Friends d: David Lean; [...]