Actors & Actresses

Child Actor Dickie Moore: 1 of last surviving Our Gang members, Jane Powell Husband has died. Gave Shirley Temple her 1st screen kiss.

Susan Hayward Movies: Best Actress Academy Award Winner for I Want to Live and 4-time Oscar nominee Is TCM Star of the Month.

Cate Blanchett as Lucille Ball: Oscar Winner Aaron Sorkin to Write Screenplay. Good idea? Blanchett won Oscar for playing Katharine Hepburn.

James Woods Twitter Lawsuit: Slander Case or Freedom of Speech Online at Stake? He is after 2 users who tweeted about the actor using coke.

Gary Cooper Movies: Playing Lover-Daddy to Joan Leslie, Audrey Hepburn in two of the weakest (but successful) films of his career.

Ingrid Bergman Movies: From the very Hollywood thriller Gaslight to her masterful, un-glitzy work for fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman.

Robert Pattinson Cast as E.T. Astronaut in Mystery Sci-Fier. Former Twilight star to be directed by veteran filmmaker Claire Denis.

Virginia Bruce Movies: Actress known as Cherry on Pretty Girl Wedding Cake did NOT go from Great Ziegfeld to Paul Morrissey despite claims.

Debbie Reynolds Movies: The Singing Nun Offers Sunny Contrast to Tragic Life of Sister Jeanne Deckers whose song Dominique became global hit.

Patricia Neal Movies: ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still,’ ‘A Face in the Crowd’ are two old classics that are more pertinent than ever.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movies: From Toyboy to Drug Smuggler in pre-Production Code movies such as Parachute Jumper and Little Caesar.

Groucho Marx Movies: From classic A Night at the Opera to disastrous The Story of Mankind plus still pertinent political satire Duck Soup.

Robert Mitchum Movies: The Yakuza surprising casting and effectively cast against type in David Lean’s troubled Ryan’s Daughter with Sarah Miles.

Uggie: The Artist Dog Star that stole scenes from Oscar winner Jean Dujardin in Michel Hazanavicius’ 2011 sleeper hit has died at age 13.

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.

Robert Walker: Actor ran the gamut from amiable, heterosexual boy-next-door types to one memorable, murderous gay psychopath.

Raymond Massey Movies: From Oscar-nominated Abraham Lincoln to Boris Karloff in addition to H.G. Wells visionary and James Dean’s father.

Katharine Hepburn Movies: Women in Drag, in Love and in Danger in classic movies that ultimately earned her 12 Academy Award nominations.

Fred Astaire Movies: Dancing in the Dark, dancing on the Ceiling and with Ginger Rogers in several RKO and MGM classic musicals.

Teresa Wright Movies: Deceptively Demure Heroine in The Little Foxes, The Pride of the Yankees and Alfred Hitchcock drama Shadow of a Doubt.

Adolphe Menjou Movies: Old Hollywood (pseudo) Sophisticated Charmer in A Star Is Born and Stage Door, rabid right-winger off screen.

Omar Sharif Movies: Stardom boosted by Dr Zhivago and busted by Che Guevara, following disastrous portrayal of Cuba’s revolutionary leader.

Theodore Bikel: Social and Union Activist, Vanessa Redgrave ‘The Palestinian’ Spat and stance against Israeli settlements.

Theodore Bikel Movies: The Oscar-nominated activist and The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof star was bypassed for the movie versions.