Hal Prince Broadway musical legend: Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborator + remembering subversive cult classic.
Alexis Smith
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Turner Classic Movies continues with its Gay Hollywood presentations tonight and tomorrow morning, June 8–9. Seven movies will be shown about, featuring, directed, or produced by the following: Cole Porter, …
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Canadian-born actress Alexis Smith (born 1921) would have turned 96 years old on June 8. Turner Classic Movies is celebrating her birthday by presenting nine of her movies, mostly during …
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Top Box Office Movies: Women to the Sidelines (Except Bullock)
14 minutes readTop Box Office Movies: Few women (Sandra Bullock an exception) and lots of sequels and remakes + what’s actual Record-Breaking year in domestic market?
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Eleanor Parker. Eleanor Parker dead at 91: ‘The Sound of Music’ actress, three-time Best Actress Oscar nominee Eleanor Parker, one of the best and most beautiful actresses of the studio …
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Dirk Bogarde: Victim Actor Letters Took No Prisoners
4 minutes readDirk Bogarde. Dirk Bogarde: Victim star took no prisoners in his letters to Dilys Powell Letters exchanged between film critic Dilys Powell and actor Dirk Bogarde – one of the …
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Hattie McDaniel. Hattie McDaniel: First black performer to win an Academy Award One of the best and, despite nearly 100 film appearances, most poorly utilized actresses of the studio era …
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Deborah Raffin: Actress & Dove Audio-Book Entrepreneur
4 minutes readDeborah Raffin: Movie & TV actress + Dove audio-book entrepreneur dead at 59 Deborah Raffin, film and television actress, and Dove Books on Tape co-founder, at age 59 on Nov. …
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Joan Fontaine Movies: ‘Jane Eyre’ & ‘Suspicion’ + ‘Ivanhoe’
4 minutes readJoan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion: Best Actress Oscar winner. Joan Fontaine, who turned 94 last Oct. 22, shines on Turner Classic Movies’ tonight. TCM will be showing five Fontaine …
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Fredric March Movies: Inherit the Wind + Seven Days in May
3 minutes readFredric March as a fictionalized William Jennings Bryan and Spencer Tracy as a fictionalized Clarence Darrow in Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind. Turner Classic Movies’ Fredric March tribute ends tonight …
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Errol Flynn Movies: Edge of Darkness + Virginia City
4 minutes readErrol Flynn, Roman Bohnen, Ann Sheridan are anti-Nazi fighters in Lewis Milestone’s World War II drama Edge of Darkness (1943) Eleven Errol Flynn movies and a 2005 documentary about the …
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Michael Feinstein, Rose Marie & Doris Roberts: Johnny Mercer Tribute with Monica Mancini and Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna.
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Ninotchka with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas (top). The Way We Were with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford (bottom). From the Romanovs’ last stand to Warren Beatty’s first solo directorial …
Audrey Totter: Film Noir Actress
Audrey Totter ca. late 1940s Audrey Totter: Film noir actress and MGM leading lady dead at 95 Audrey Totter, film noir femme fatale and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player best remembered for …
Warner Archive: Debbie Reynolds, seen here with Greer Garson and Ricardo Montalban on the set of The Singing Nun, is one of the featured stars. New Warner Archive releases: Debbie Reynolds …
Walter Matthau Movies: The Sunshine Boys + California Suite
Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder’s The Fortune Cookie Twelve Walter Matthau movies will be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Wednesday, Aug. 11, as part of TCM’s “Summer …
Who is Greta Garbo? Find out on Turner Classic Movies. Thursday–Saturday, Aug. 7–9, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Thursday is Greta Garbo Day: Sometimes splendid, sometimes godawful, Garbo was invariably …