Xavier Cugat Articles
Actress Adele Mara Dies: Played Opposite Rita Hayworth, John Wayne
Adele Mara, a 1940s Hollywood actress best known for the John Wayne war melodrama Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and for playing one of Rita Hayworth's sisters in You Were Never Lovelier (1942), died Friday, May 7, of natural causes at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades. She was 87. Mara (born Adelaide Delgado on April 28, 1923, in Highland Park, [...]
Best Films – 1930
Made at the dawn of the sound era, All Quiet on the Western Front remains the best war film ever made. Despite some brave (and not so brave) attempts by other filmmakers ever since, no other motion picture I've seen has captured the horrors of war with the honesty and the poignancy of Lewis Milestone's rendition of Erich Maria Remarque's pacifist novel. Lew Ayres plays [...]