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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The Secret Life of Words: English-language drama tops Spanish Academy’s Goya + critics Awards as gay + pregnant Hispanic youth wins Sundance.
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Falcon Lair: Rudolph Valentino House of legendary history (Doris Duke lived there) for Sale in Bel Air + Silent Era Child Actress Baby Peggy Talks!
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Aurora Miranda: Carmen Miranda Sister + fiery fancy-hat-wearing Phantom Lady singer also enthralled Donald Duck in Disney’s The Three Caballeros.
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Hidden movie + James Bond actor Sean Connery and David Lean composer Maurice Jarre: Michael Haneke political thriller tops European Film Awards winners.
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Back to the Future Actress Wendie Jo Sperber Dead at 47. The scene-stealing Sperber was also featured in the Tom Hanks sitcom Bosom Buddies.
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Marlon Brando Sister Jocelyn Brando death. The Big Heat car bomb Mob Victim, film career damaged by anti-Red hysteria.
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According to numerous reports, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who has become a Dutch Member of Parliament for the conservative Liberal Party*, has announced plans to produce a film…
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AFI FEST showcases Heath Ledger in Casanova: Chaos in Hollywood area. AFI FEST: ‘Casanova’ movie chaos The worst thing I can say about the 2005 edition of the AFI Los…
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Gene Hackman Night Moves: 1975 neo-noir movie by Arthur Penn screening as part of Academy tribute to the 3-time Best Director Oscar nominee.
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Incest movie Don’t Tell with Giovanna Mezzogiorno. Incest movie ‘Don’t Tell’ is Italian Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award replacement Cristina Comencini’s incest-themed movie La Bestia nel cuore / Don’t…
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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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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…
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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:…
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Ben-Hur 1959 Charlton Heston. ‘Ben-Hur’ 1959 & 1925 on DVD: Charlton Heston & Ramon Novarro movies Ben-Hur, both the 1959 and 1925 versions starring, respectively, Charlton Heston and Ramon Novarro,…
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Actor Brock Peters, best known as the black man falsely accused of rape in Robert Mulligan’s 1962 drama To Kill a Mockingbird, died at age 78 of pancreatic cancer earlier today, Aug.…
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Thomas Edison ‘Frankenstein’ 1910 owner Alois F. Dettlaff found dead Alois F. Dettlaff, the film archivist responsible for preserving the only surviving print of Thomas Edison’s 1910 film adaptation of…
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Geraldine Fitzgerald: Renowned movie, stage, and TV actress has died Geraldine Fitzgerald, veteran stage and screen actress among whose film credits are Wuthering Heights, Wilson, Harry and Tonto, and the…
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Brazilian cinema at MoMA Brazilian cinema will return to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in July. MoMA will be presenting the third edition of “Premiere Brazil!” between July…
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Tiefland Leni Riefenstahl auction in England The BBC reports that 33 original photographs taken during the shooting of Tiefland (Lowlands), the last feature film directed by and starring Leni Riefenstahl,…
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Linda Lovelace Deep Throat finally released in the UK Deep Throat, the epoch-making 1972 sexually explicit movie starring Linda Lovelace and directed by Gerard Damiano, was given its first UK…
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Joan Crawford young and entrepreneurial in Mildred Pierce. Joan Crawford young & middle-aged on DVD Joan Crawford, unfairly misremembered as a maternal ogress with a wire-hanger fixation, was actually one…
Beverly Tyler: Actress in MGM films of the 1940s (The Green Years + The Beginning or the End) whose career suffered after losing role to Janet Leigh.
Polar bears star in White Wilderness. Oscar-winning documentaries ‘White Wilderness’ & ‘Albert Schweitzer’ + ‘Ama Girls’ Academy screening New 35mm prints of the Academy Award-winning documentaries Albert Schweitzer, Ama Girls,…
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.…
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…
Mary Astor. Classic film festival Cinecon: Lots of rarities + pre-scandal Mary Astor & Mary Miles Minter There’ll be rare movies aplenty at Los Angeles’ mini-film festival Cinecon. For starters,…
The Thin Man movies: Myrna Loy and William Powell in The Thin Man Goes Home. ‘The Thin Man’ movies on DVD: William Powell & Myrna Loy The Thin Man movies, starring…
Hollywood Rebels: James Dean ca. 1955. Hollywood Rebels’ movies on DVD: James Dean in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ & Steve McQueen in ‘Bullitt’ James Dean’s cult status was surely not…