Oscar diversity: Women – including two lesbianish characters – form the core of the 1950 Best Picture winner All About Eve. But would the Broadway-set classic have met the new…
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Actress Ann Sothern enjoyed a belated (second) career peak: In the late 1940s, the former Maisie franchise star was seen in a cluster of A productions – admittedly, not always…
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Yvonne Monlaur: Cult horror movie actress & Bond Girl contender was featured in the 1960 British classics Circus of Horrors & The Brides of Dracula. Actress Yvonne Monlaur dead at…
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Charles Brackett ca. 1945: Billy Wilder screenwriting partner (1936–1949), producer (1945–1949) and Hollywood diarist. Q&A with ‘Charles Brackett Diaries’ editor Anthony Slide: Billy Wilder’s screenwriter-producer partner in his own words…
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Don Mankiewicz co-wrote I Want to Live, starring Susan Hayward, 1958’s Best Actress Oscar winner. ‘I Want to Live!’ screenwriter Don Mankiewicz dead at 93 Veteran television and film screenwriter Don…
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Veterans Day Movies: George C. Scott in ‘Patton.’ Veterans Day movies on TCM: From ‘The Sullivans’ to ‘Patton’ On Nov. 11, Turner Classic Movies is presenting five war or war-related…
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Bette Davis’ eyes keep Watch on the Rhine. Bette Davis’ eyes are watching everything and everyone on Turner Classic Movies this evening, as TCM continues with its “Summer Under the…
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The Genie Awards’ top pick, Sylvain Chomet’s Jacques Tati-inspired animated feature The Triplets of Belleville is one more example of Quebec’s vibrant film industry, which dominated this year’s “Canadian Oscars.”…
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Being Julia movie review: “All About Eve in a London setting” wouldn’t be an inapt summation of István Szabó’s comedy about a 1930s stage diva who becomes attached to a…
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Stage Beauty movie review: Mixing elements from All About Eve and Shakespeare in Love, among other titles, Richard Eyre and Jeffrey Hatcher’s big-screen version of the latter’s play fails to…