The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone with Vivien Leigh and her Roman stalker, Jeremy Spenser. Best remembered for her two Oscar-winning roles – Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind…
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Actor Anthony Franciosa died of a massive stroke this past Friday, Jan. 20, ’06, at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 77. Franciosa’s film career began late –…
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Shelley Winters and Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun Shelley Winters, winner of two Best Supporting Actress Academy Awards, died of heart failure at the Rehabilitation Centre of…
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Falcon Lair. Erected in 1923 in the hills of the recently founded Bel Air, at the time a little-developed Los Angeles suburb, Falcon Lair was to have been the home…
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The Midnight Story with Argentina Brunetti, Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, and Gilbert Roland. Joseph Pevney directed this 1957 crime drama about a San Francisco traffic cop (Tony Curtis) attempting to…
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Beverly Tyler ca. 1945. An actress in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movies of the mid-1940s, pretty Beverly Tyler never became a star though she did enjoy some popularity as a decorative – and…
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Travelin’ Thru the Transamerica way. Kevin Zegers and Felicity Huffman star in Duncan Tucker’s “family values” road movie Transamerica, which follows a pre-op male-to-female transsexual (Huffman) who becomes acquainted with…
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Richard Pryor in Stir Crazy with Gene Wilder. Directed by Best Actor Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field, 1963), the 1980 blockbuster comedy Stir Crazy marked the…
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Jean Parker: Last Surviving Little Women 1933 actress and Lady for a Day ingenue + star of sleeper MGM hit Sequoia and whose husband was Batman actor.
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Gog 1954 with Richard Egan and Constance Dowling. Little-remembered filmmaker Herbert L. Strock directed the 3D thriller Gog – a 2001: A Space Odyssey precursor about the dangers posed by…
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Harold Pinter. Nobel Prize in Literature winner delivers controversial acceptance speech fulminating against the U.S. government, the Iraq War, and war hawks George W. Bush and Tony Blair. Harold Pinter…
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Carmen Miranda costume: the so-called “Brazilian Bombshell” in typical churchgoing garb of the period – subdued colors and only the most modest of accoutrements. The “Carmen Miranda Forever” exhibition at…
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Ivor Novello: Gay Icon and 1 of Alfred Hitchcock first major stars + Keep the Home Fires Burning composer remembered in Cardiff as The Rat.
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Jocelyn Brando, sister of Marlon Brando, and Linda Bennett in The Big Heat. Marlon Brando sister Jocelyn Brando dies: Car bomb victim in ‘The Big Heat’ Jocelyn Brando, the older…
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Keith Andes: Actor was featured in 20 movies. Actor Keith Andes dead at 85: Marilyn Monroe romantic interest in Clash by Night Film and stage actor Keith Andes, best remembered…
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Pat Morita in ‘The Karate Kid’ 1984. Pat Morita: ‘The Karate Kid’ 1984 martial arts teacher dead at 73 Pat Morita a.k.a. Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita, best known for his Academy…
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Sean Connery as James Bond: Prestige decades after commercial success. Sean Connery: James Bond star and Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner to receive AFI Life Achievement Award Sean Connery, best…
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Night Moves movie with Gene Hackman. Arthur Penn directed. Gene Hackman in ‘Night Moves’ movie: Arthur Penn Academy tribute The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will host a…
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John Fowles: The Collector and The French Lieutenant’s Woman author. John Fowles: ‘The Collector’ & ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ author dead at 79 Author John Fowles, among whose novels are The…
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Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino in Beyond the Rocks: “Lost movie” will be screened in Los Angeles area. Gloria Swanson & Rudolph Valentino: Found ‘Lost’ film ‘Beyond the Rocks’ screening…
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Pasolini protégé & collaborator Sergio Citti dead at 72 Sergio Citti, a close friend, frequent collaborator, and protégé of controversial filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, died on Oct. 11 in Rome.…
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Isabelle Huppert film series at MoMA Isabelle Huppert, one of the best film actresses of the last three decades, is the subject of a MoMA retrospective at New York City’s…
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Shirley Temple curls finally rewarded: Next SAG Life Achievement Award recipient Shirley Temple, the biggest curly-haired child star in film history, is now a grown woman. In fact, she has…
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Sean Connery: Shirtless James Bond. Sean Connery to receive European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Sean Connery, best known for being the big screen’s first James Bond, will receive the…
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MGM actress Greta Garbo in the 1930 Anna Christie. Actress Greta Garbo DVD box set ‘Garbo: The Signature Collection’ Greta Garbo is the star of the DVD box set “Garbo:…
Aurora Miranda. Carmen Miranda’s sister had a long and successful career as a recording artist, but Aurora Miranda was seen in only a handful of films in both Brazil and…
Annette Stroyberg a.k.a. Annette Vadim: The Danish-born, pouty-lipped actress had a brief film career in the early 1960s, appearing in 10 movies in France and Italy, most notably the French-made…
Marc Lawrence. Prolific actor was usually cast as gangster and other assorted scuzzy characters, making life difficult for just about everybody, from Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake to Humphrey Bogart…
‘Back to the Future’ actress Wendie Jo Sperber. ‘Back to the Future’ actress Wendie Jo Sperber dead at 47 Wendie Jo Sperber, best known for her roles as Amy Cassidy…
Vera Kholodnaya. Russian silent movie star remembered: Vera Kholodnaya Vera Kholodnaya, Russia’s top female movie star of the 1910s, will be brought back to the fore thanks to a Moscow…
Winner of two Oscars, Olivia de Havilland getting Academy Tribute Best actress Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland with presenter Ray Milland at the 1947 Academy Awards ceremony. © A.M.P.A.S.…
Joel McCrea. Joel McCrea movies: LACMA’s ‘Centenary Tribute’ to Old Hollywood star Joel McCrea, the star of numerous light comedies, melodramas, and Westerns from the early the 1930s to the…