Technicolor siren Virginia Mayo was most impressive as callous black-and-white women in films like The Best Years of Our Lives + White Heat.
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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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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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Howard Keel: Dallas resurgence as rancher Clayton Farlow following abrupt career downfall and decades-long Hollywood purgatory.
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MGM musicals box office struggle: Howard Keel Hollywood woes included 2 prestigious star vehicles that *should* have succeeded. Could his career be saved?
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Howard Keel musicals: Box office ups and downs emblematic of genre’s erratic appeal in 1950s Hollywood as a result of dramatic socio-economic changes.
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Howard Keel: Actor-singer embodied brawny American manliness in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals of the 1950s such as Annie Get Your Gun + Show Boat.
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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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Ron Moody: Fagin in Oliver! Went From Charles Dickens to Walt Disney (and Mel Brooks) - But Strangely no star cameo in Harry Potter movies.
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Ron Moody: Oliver! Actor, Oscar Nominee Dead. Dickens’ Fagin in troubled but highly successful stage musical and later Best Picture winner..
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Jersey Boys (movie 2014) review: Clint Eastwood prosaically tracks the humdrum rise and fall of Frankie Valli (John Lloyd Young) and the Four Seasons.
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Mickey Rooney ca. 1940 Mickey Rooney dead at 93: Four-time Oscar nominee & frequent Judy Garland co-star may have had the longest film career ever Mickey Rooney, four-time Academy Award…
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Marta Eggerth ca. 1935: Central Europe’s Jeanette MacDonald. Operetta and film star Marta Eggerth dead at 101: The Jeanette MacDonald of Central European cinema Marta Eggerth, an international star in…
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One Direction members Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson One Direction: This Is Us movie weekend box office: One of steepest Friday-to-Saturday drops ever The…
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Ann Blyth today on TCM Ann Blyth today: Light songs and heavy drama on TCM Ann Blyth, a 1940s Universal leading lady best remembered for her Oscar-nominated performance as Joan…
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Doris Day in Calamity Jane: Gay or straight? In David Butler’s enjoyable musical Western, Day is equally intrigued by chorus girl Allyn McLerie and macho Westerner Howard Keel. She also…
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Channing Tatum in Magic Mike. ‘Guys and Dolls’ remake supposedly to star Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Guys and Dolls will be brought back to the big screen by way of…
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Deanna Durbin in I’ll Be Yours. Deanna Durbin dies at 91: One of the top stars of Hollywood’s studio era According to Hollywood lore, teen star Deanna Durbin saved Universal…
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Les Misérables Reviews: Mixed views on maximalist Approach to Killer Pipes but Anne Hathaway singing sobbing Fantine total shoo-in Oscar contender.
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Les Misérables trailer is out. (Please scroll down.) You can hear Anne Hathaway’s miserable Fantine singing “I dreamed that love would never die … I had a dream my life…
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Donna Summer dead at 63: Sang Best Original Song Oscar winner ‘Last Dance’ Singer Donna Summer, who died of cancer at age 63 earlier today, was featured in only one…
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Doris Day is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of April 2012. TCM’s Doris Day homage begins this evening with eight movies released at the start of Day’s career…
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Carl Reiner, John Hubley, Hope Lange, Oscar 1959 John Hubley, considered one of animation’s most innovative and influential designer-directors, will have his life and art celebrated by the Academy of…
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Howard Keel, best remembered for MGM musicals such as Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, is Turner Classic Movies’ next-to-last “Summer Under the Stars” star.…
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Festival of Legends: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Peter Yarrow in Murray Lerner Oscar-Nominated Folk Music Documentary.
Howard Keel height of career as a result of sleeper blockbuster that helped to revive his Hollywood standing after three consecutive MGM musical flops.
Roy Rogers Under Western Stars: Subversive Singing Cowboy Western still relevant in this age of special interests in government and climate change threat.
Martha Stewart Not Dead? Despite reports to the contrary, the actress-singer (In a Lonely Place) is still alive. UPDATE: She died in February 2021.
Inside Llewyn Davis (movie 2013) review: Oscar Isaac is a memorable human dud in Joel and Ethan Coen’s impressive music world drama. Carey Mulligan costars.
Esther Williams. Esther Williams: Swimwear-garbed star of MGM Technicolor musicals dead at 91 Esther Williams, known for her swimming skills and ability to smile and keep her make-up and coiffure…
Tony Martin movies Actor-singer Tony Martin, once married to 20th Century Fox singing star Alice Faye and the widower of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dancer-actress Cyd Charisse, died of “natural causes” at his…
Porgy and Bess film: Costly and controversial + hard-to-find black musical version of Gershwin Broadway hit is most notable LoC National Registry entry.