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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Oscar winner Meryl Streep among those who have signed a ‘hardline’ letter urging the SAG-AFTRA leaders to meet the moment at this crucial juncture in the history of the US entertainment industry.
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Ted Ray remembered: Author Anthony Slide delves into the life and times of the now largely forgotten music hall, radio, and sometime movie comic whom he labels ‘the greatest standup comedian.’
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Even though Sandra Hüller failed to take home the Best Actress Award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, her two Official Competition movies bagged the Palme d’Or and the Grand Prix.
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Edward D. Wood Jr. (a.k.a. Ed Wood) has been labeled ‘The Worst Director of All Time.’ Yet the Grade-Z auteur whose credits include Plan 9 from Outer Space is now a cult favorite.
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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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The first women filmmakers are the topic of Anthony Slide’s book The Silent Feminists. In a q&a with Alt Film Guide, the author and film historian discusses Weber, Arzner et al.
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Alice Guy Blaché: The world’s first woman director is remembered in this q&a with film historian Anthony Slide, who also discusses the republication of her book of memoirs.
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Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe joined forces on the problem-plagued The Misfits. See also: The playwright’s answer to Elia Kazan’s 1954 Oscar winner On the Waterfront.
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The COVID-19 positive test of actor Robert Pattinson has halted – once again – The Batman while unsettling the already wobbly film industry.
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Film historian Anthony Slide discusses the frenzied and once hugely popular ‘everyman’ British comedian Arthur Askey, who has finally become a biographical subject.
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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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Little Fugitive director Morris Engel was the post-WWII ‘Father of American Independent Cinema,’ inspiring John Cassavetes and the French New Wave.
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Best remembered for playing the creepy Omni chairman in RoboCop, Dan O’Herlihy was a one-of-a-kind Best Actor Oscar nominee during the studio era.
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Citizen Kane and Song of the South actress Ruth Warrick became All My Children snob Phoebe Tyler and a Confederate flag critic.
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Frank and Ava movie interview: Frank Sinatra portrayer Rico Simonini discusses the indie drama about singer’s turbulent marriage with Ava Gardner.
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Actress Sandra Dee is seen as a sweet-looking but gutsy rule-breaker in the 1959 blockbusters A Summer Place and Imitation of Life.
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In movies like the Oscar-nominated The Cardinal, actress Carol Lynley portrayed great-looking ‘girls-next-door’ who dared to defy social traditions.
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.
SAG president Ronald Reagan failed to rise to the occasion during the pivotal 1960 Screen Actors Guild strike, when veteran Hollywood stars and supporting players were denied residuals.
Veteran actor Michael Douglas will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. He is the eighth American to be accorded the honor (out of 17 recipients).
Joan Bennett: The Criterion Channel is presenting 10 films starring the personable and underrated actress whose big-screen roles ranged from spirited blondes to sultry brunettes.
Belfast movie: Kenneth Branagh is shooting his ‘most personal film,’ set in tumultuous 1960s Northern Ireland. Judi Dench and Jamie Dornan among stars.
Four-time Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress Barbara Stanwyck delivered many of the 20th century’s most captivating big-screen performances.
Technicolor siren Virginia Mayo was most impressive as callous black-and-white women in films like The Best Years of Our Lives + White Heat.