Kitty Gordon: Silent film star with the ‘most beautiful’ and most heavily insured back. Rediscovering a long-forgotten silent film star: Kitty Gordon It seems almost unthinkable that there are still…
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Pioneering woman director Lois Weber movie ‘Shoes,’ with Mary MacLaren. Pioneering woman director Lois Weber socially conscious drama ‘Shoes’ screening In February 2015, National Film Registry titles will be showcased…
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Hedy Lamarr inventor ca. early 1940s. Hedy Lamarr: ‘Invention’ & inventor on Turner Classic Movies Two Hedy Lamarr movies released during her heyday in the early 1940s – Victor Fleming’s…
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Shirley Temple: Child actress turned teen actress in the 1940s Shirley Temple dead at 85: Was one of the biggest domestic box office draws of the 1930s Shirley Temple, one…
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Linda Darnell. Linda Darnell, the gorgeous leading lady of numerous 20th Century Fox productions of the 1940s, is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” player on Aug. 27. TCM,…
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Jean Harlow in Hollywood. One of MGM’s brightest stars of the 1930s, Jean Harlow died of uremic poisoning in 1937. At the time, the 26-year-old actress had been playing opposite…
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From the moment The Gang’s All Here opens with a nightclub production number presented on a stage as big as a football field, Busby Berkeley’s fast-paced Technicolor musical delivers the…
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Cinecon overview: Film historian Joseph Yranski offers a brief look at an eclectic array of silents and talkies screened at this year’s festival of mostly rare movies.
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Busby Berkeley musical The Gang’s All Here with Carmen Miranda. “Sex and the Single Girl: The Escapades of Busby Berkeley” is a mini-retrospective currently being presented by the UCLA Film &…
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Cyd Charisse, the long-legged dancer of about a dozen MGM musicals, died today at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Charisse, who was 86 (or 87, depending on the…
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New York City’s Film Forum is presenting an unusual film series this spring 2007: Low(er)-budget classic musicals from the 1930s to the early 1950s. In those films you won’t find…
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Cesar Romero: Hollywood leading man and second lead in the 1930s and 1940s. Cesar Romero centennial tribute: ‘The White Rose’ Los Angeles’ Cervantes Center of Arts & Letters will be…
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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…
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…
If Clark Gable was the King of Hollywood, then Tyrone Power was its – more handsome, more charming, more pleasant – Crown Prince. Allan Ellenberger has reported on and posted…
Henry King: Film director mostly associated with 20th Century Fox. Henry King director: San Sebastian Film Festival retrospective Henry King is best remembered for the movies he directed at Fox,…