Dana Andrews Movies: Film Noir actor outstanding in portrayals of angst-ridden characters which made him unique mix of Hollywood hero and antihero.
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Merle Oberon: Glamour Actress with mysterious past dons men’s clothes and fights Nazis, but her private life more dramatic than her films.
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John Nash gay life erased + passionate James Dean bromance + never-ending war pitting ‘Westerners’ vs dark-skinned natives: TCM Oscar Movies.
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31 Days of Oscar: Ben-Hur Proves That Bigger not Necessarily Better plus grandiose David Lean while Spencer Tracy nearly ruins British drama.
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William Cameron Menzies Movies: Murderous Joan Fontaine, Howard Hughes’ Nazi Communists out to destroy American Way of Life.
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Ben-Hur movie: Christian epic was biggest and most expensive Blockbuster until Gone with the Wind. Mexican Ramon Novarro played Jewish hero.
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Pat O’Brien: Actor was James Cagney Partner was one of Hollywood’s busiest leading men and favorite priest of the studio era.
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Maureen O’Hara Movies: TCM Tribute to Queen of Technicolor featured opposite John Wayne in 5 movies including the John Ford classic The Quiet Man.
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Susan Hayward Movies: Best Actress Academy Award Winner for I Want to Live and 4-time Oscar nominee Is TCM Star of the Month.
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Gary Cooper Movies: Playing Lover-Daddy to Joan Leslie, Audrey Hepburn in two of the weakest (but successful) films of his career.
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Virginia Bruce Movies: Actress known as Cherry on Pretty Girl Wedding Cake did NOT go from Great Ziegfeld to Paul Morrissey despite claims.
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Debbie Reynolds Movies: The Singing Nun Offers Sunny Contrast to Tragic Life of Sister Jeanne Deckers whose song Dominique became global hit.
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Vivien Leigh Movies: Anglo-Indian-Armenian Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire?
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movies: From Toyboy to Drug Smuggler in pre-Production Code movies such as Parachute Jumper and Little Caesar.
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Groucho Marx Movies: From classic A Night at the Opera to disastrous The Story of Mankind plus still pertinent political satire Duck Soup.
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Ann-Margret Movies: From Elvis Presley leading lady to Oscar nominations for provocative Tommy and Carnal Knowledge.
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Rex Ingram (Actor): Early Black Performer in Hollywood Movies such as Cabin in the Sky. He also played the Genie in The Thief of Bagdad 1940.
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Joan Crawford Movies: The Women 1939, Controversial Christian-Themed Drama (banned in parts of the U.S.) and going berserk for love.
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Raymond Massey Movies: From Oscar-nominated Abraham Lincoln to Boris Karloff in addition to H.G. Wells visionary and James Dean’s father.
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Michael Caine Movies: From Gay Villain to starring in the Best British Film in a series of vehicles presented on TCM including Get Carter.
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Fred Astaire Movies: Dancing in the Dark, dancing on the Ceiling and with Ginger Rogers in several RKO and MGM classic musicals.
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Teresa Wright Movies: Deceptively Demure Heroine in The Little Foxes, The Pride of the Yankees and Alfred Hitchcock drama Shadow of a Doubt.
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Olivia de Havilland Movies: ‘Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte’ as Favor to Bette Davis as two-time Oscar winner not ‘thrilled with the script.’
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Young Robert Redford goes from political candidate and youthful journalist fighting corruption to CIA agent fearing for his life and ambitious skiier.
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Luis Buñuel Movies: Subversive, Challenging Viridiana (‘blasphemous’ according to the Vatican) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
Ernst Lubitsch movies’ subtle touch now passé in our age of sledgehammer filmmaking but The Student Prince and The Merry Widow still delight.
Norma Shearer: Queen of MGM and the movies’ Early Liberated Woman often played roles well ahead of both their and our own time.
Greta Garbo movies: Rare Silent Era Superstar is still remembered Today in 2 of her biggest hits and best-known MGM films.
Patricia Neal Movies: ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still,’ ‘A Face in the Crowd’ are two old classics that are more pertinent than ever.
Robert Mitchum Movies: The Yakuza surprising casting and effectively cast against type in David Lean’s troubled Ryan’s Daughter with Sarah Miles.
Katharine Hepburn Movies: Women in Drag, in Love and in Danger in classic movies that ultimately earned her 12 Academy Award nominations.
Adolphe Menjou Movies: Old Hollywood (pseudo) Sophisticated Charmer in A Star Is Born and Stage Door, rabid right-winger off screen.