Doris Day films on Turner Classic Movies’ ‘Summer Under the Stars’ series: TCM will be presenting 12 titles starring one of cinema’s biggest – and sunniest – names of the 20th century.
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Barbara Stanwyck movies on TCM: Turner Classic Movies’ ‘Summer Under the Stars’ series continues by placing the spotlight on one of cinema’s greatest and most compelling performers.
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Actress Carole Lombard on Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars’: The madcap, Oscar-nominated ‘screwball’ comedy heroine was one of the highest-paid women in the world.
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Katy Jurado on Turner Classic Movies’ ‘Summer Under the Stars’: Twelve titles featuring the first Mexican actress to receive an Oscar nomination, but nothing from her South of the Rio Grande career.
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Actress Greer Garson on Turner Classic Movies’ ‘Summer Under the Stars’: TCM will be airing 12 titles starring the 1940s’ Queen of MGM and a record-tying Best Actress Academy Award nominee.
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Rhonda Fleming on Turner Classic Movies’ ‘Summer Under the Stars’: The redheaded actress can be seen in 13 TCM titles, notably as Cleopatra in Serpent of the Nile.
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Actress Joan Blondell on Turner Classic Movies’ ‘Summer Under the Stars’ series: TCM will be airing no less than 16 titles featuring Warner Bros.’ wisecracking, Depression era anti-heroine.
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TCM Classic Film Festival: Filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh, and actor (and sometime director) George Clooney were among the Hollywood celebrities in attendance.
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TCM Classic Film Festival: Angie Dickinson, Ann-Margret and Russ Tamblyn were among the celebrities in attendance, while screenings focused on Warner Bros.’ (official) centenary.
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Oscars’ Westerns: Turner Classic Movies’ ’31 Days of Oscar’ continues with 11 titles, including John Ford’s classic Stagecoach and the so-called Worst Best Picture Winner Ever.
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’31 Days of Oscar’: Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) series continues with an eclectic array of 12 comedies that (hopefully) will make you laugh while forcing you to ask some tough questions.
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Legendary Broadway actor John Barrymore also enjoyed an impressive and enduring – yet vastly undervalued – movie career in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Four-time Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress Barbara Stanwyck delivered many of the 20th century’s most captivating big-screen performances.
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The Poseidon Adventure actress Carol Lynley should also be remembered for a landmark teen pregnancy drama and for a first-rate British thriller.
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Actress Ann Sothern enjoyed an unusual second career peak that included a top Oscar winner and decades later she became one of the oldest nominees.
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As an RKO and MGM star, sassy blonde Ann Sothern had an unconventional professional trajectory: A and B movies in a decades-long film career that had no less than 2 peaks.
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Jimmy Stewart. ‘Jimmy’ Stewart: Unlikely Hollywood star enjoyed decades-long career in a variety of genres The personification of all-American aw-shucksiness – of the sort you find only in bad movies…
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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…
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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…
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4th of July Movies: From our dystopian present to John Paul Jones + Benedict Arnold and other complex American Revolutionary War figures.
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Jane Powell. Jane Powell movies: MGM actress in musicals of the 1940s & 1950s Jane Powell, the youthful star of a series of lighthearted Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer color comedy-musicals of the 1940s…
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Kay Francis. Kay Francis revisited: One of the brightest & most underrated Hollywood stars of the 1930s Kay Francis is the star of the day (April 9) on Turner Classic…
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Updated: Following a couple of Julie London Westerns*, Turner Classic Movies will return to its July 2017 Star of the Month presentations. This evening, July 27, Ronald Colman can be…
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Ronald Colman: Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in two major 1930s classics Updated: Turner Classic Movies’ July 2017 Star of the Month is Ronald Colman, one of the…
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(See previous post: Fourth of July Movies: Escapism During a Weird Year.) On the evening of the Fourth of July, besides fireworks, fire hazards, and Yankee Doodle Dandy, if you’re…
Ronald Colman movies on TCM: This year’s ‘Summer Under the Stars’ lineup includes three titles that earned Colman Oscar nominations, most notably the classic Random Harvest.
Following complaints from David Zaslav, editors at the Condé Nast-owned GQ magazine have removed an article exposing the gross misdeeds of the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO.
Oscars’ war movies: Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Academy Award-themed series continues with nine features, including two Best Picture winners and three nominees.
Actress Sandra Dee is seen as a sweet-looking but gutsy rule-breaker in the 1959 blockbusters A Summer Place and Imitation of Life.
In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s ‘best bad movie,’ The Barefoot Contessa, Ava Gardner exudes a magnetic – and underrated – mix of glamour and charisma.
Independence Day movies: Exuberant all-white all-Iowan marching band + lovely and talented Joan Leslie + racist British imperialism salute.
John Boles. Actor & singer John Boles remembered On March 4, Turner Classic Movies is remembering actor-singer John Boles, a name that even the majority of film historians and connoisseurs…