Actress Carol Lynley. See previous post about the career of actress Carol Lynley: Carol Lynley: ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ & (Vastly Underrated) ‘Bunny Lake Is Missing’ Actress Remembered Listed below are several other notable movies featuring actress Carol Lynley. ‘Holiday for…

Carol Lynley: The Poseidon Adventure, Bunny Lake Is Missing, and Blue Denim actress. In a career spanning nearly five decades, actress Carol Lynley was featured in about three dozen features, ranging from little-seen, low-budget fare like Spirits and Drowning on…

Ann Sothern: Actress in Maisie movie series enjoyed two Hollywood career peaks. Ann Sothern, an actress in Hollywood and, somewhat briefly, on Broadway since the late 1920s, became a star in 1939, courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Edwin L. Marin-directed low-budget comedy…

Ann Sothern. Although never a superstar, Ann Sothern was billed above the title in a series of comedies, musicals, and dramas of the 1940s and early 1950s, mostly at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Today perhaps chiefly associated with MGM’s Maisie comedy series (1939–1947),…

Ava Gardner: The Barefoot Contessa, Mogambo, and Earthquake actress. In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s (partly) Rita Hayworth-inspired The Barefoot Contessa, Ava Gardner discovers that the life of a noblewoman is not what it’s cracked up to be. Julie Christie, who apparently…

Jimmy Stewart. ‘Jimmy’ Stewart: Unlikely Hollywood star enjoyed decades-long movie career in a variety of genres The personification of all-American aw-shucksiness – of the sort you find only in bad movies and bad literature – James Stewart, fondly remembered by…

Lena Horne. Lena Horne movies: Velvety-voiced singer generally relegated to specialty numbers during heyday of the Hollywood musical Had things been different, it’s anybody’s guess whether or not three-time Grammy winner Lena Horne, Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars”…

Melvyn Douglas. Melvyn Douglas: From suave leading man to Hollywood’s top female stars to first-rate dramatic actor Unlike Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, or Gary Cooper, Melvyn Douglas couldn’t exactly be considered a handsome, matinee idol type. Unlike Edward G. Robinson,…

Hal Prince. Out of his record-setting 21 Tony Awards, eight were as Best Director of a Musical for the following: Cabaret (at the 1967 ceremony), Company (1971), Follies (1972, with Michael Bennett), Candide (1974), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of…

Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie. Directed by Marc Forster and adapted by David Magee from Allan Knee’s play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, the Miramax-distributed 2004 period drama Finding Neverland features a sentimental, bittersweet ending, as fatherly author and…

Author Allan R. Ellenberger discusses Miriam Hopkins in the interview further below – and in his Hopkins biography Life and Films of a Hollywood Rebel. From pre-Code antiheroine to matronly supporting player, Hopkins stole scenes and/or movies from the likes…

Howard Keel in Dallas with Donna Reed: late 20th-century mainstream resurgence of two former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars. On Season 8 (1984–1985) of CBS’s hit TV soap Dallas (1978–1991), 1950s MGM contract actor-singer Howard Keel, previously a “guest star” on the show,…