Oscar 2023: Starring Hugh Grant, the year’s best moment was the one you didn’t see at the ceremony itself, which mostly consisted of tasteless jokes and sheer contempt for film …
Angela Lansbury
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Hal Prince: Tony-Winning Broadway Musical Producer-Director
13 minutes readHal Prince Broadway musical legend: Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborator + remembering subversive cult classic.
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Ingrid Bergman Films on TCM: From Cukor to Bergman
10 minutes readIngrid Bergman Movies: From the very Hollywood thriller Gaslight to her masterful, un-glitzy work for fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman.
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Honorary Oscars have bypassed women for decades. Is the Academy biased? Angela Lansbury, Lauren Bacall among rare winners.
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Julie Harris in East of Eden with James Dean. Julie Harris: Best Actress Oscar nominee & multiple Tony winner Film, stage, and television actress Julie Harris, a Best Actress Academy …
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Lana Turner Movies: Scandals & Glamour On- & Off-Screen
6 minutes readLana Turner: Scandals on- and off-screen. Lana Turner movies: Scandal and more scandal Lana Turner is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Saturday, Aug. 10. I’m a …
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Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress Still Living
2 minutes readBest Supporting Actress Nominees pre-1950 still alive, Oscar nonagenarians / centenarian. (Image: Ann Blyth Mildred Pierce, with Joan Crawford.) Following Celeste Holm’s death today and Ernest Borgnine’s death last Sunday, …
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Jean Simmons movies: Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster. Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month Jean Simmons’ film series comes to a close tonight, with the presentation of seven Jean …
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Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey in John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate Nov. 8: For an undisclosed amount, in early November 2010 Warner Bros. has announced plans to buy Leavesden Studios, the …
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Warren Beatty in Reds with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton. Eleven Warren Beatty movies will be shown on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, Aug. 9, as part of TCM’s “Summer Under …
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Angela Lansbury has her “Summer Under the Stars” day on Sunday, Aug. 23. Thanks to the popular TV series Murder She Wrote, Angela Lansbury became a bigger star in the …
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Ava Gardner Movies: The Night of the Iguana + Ride Vaquero!
4 minutes readAva Gardner movies: With Clark Gable and Broderick Crawford in Lone Star. Ava Gardner movies on Thursday, Aug. 21: Highlights on Turner Classic Movies. Sexy or sensual? In all honesty, …
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Top Ten Film Villains
3 minutes readJack Palance in Shane. Philip French in The Guardian: “From the start, the movies welcomed into their midst the mustachioed villain of Victorian melodrama, leaving subtler antagonists to literary fiction …
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Keith Andes: Marilyn Monroe Leading Man
4 minutes readActor Keith Andes Commits Suicide: Marilyn Monroe Romantic Interest in 1952 movie also featured in musicals and Star Trek TV series.
James Garner Movies: Grand Prix + Victor Victoria
James Garner. James Garner movies: ‘Grand Prix’ & ‘Victor Victoria’ among TCM highlights James Garner, whose film and television career spanned more than five decades, died of “natural causes” at …
George Cukor Gay Woman’s Director Nonsense
A Bill of Divorcement with Katharine Hepburn and David Manners: 1932 George Cukor drama. George Cukor ‘gay Woman’s Director’? Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his …
Ethel Barrymore Movies: The Paradine Case + The Red Danube
Believe it or not, there’s much more to stage and screen legend Ethel Barrymore than the fact that she was Drew Barrymore’s great-aunt. In fact, Ethel Barrymore was the grand-dame …
Gaslighting Abuse 21st-Century Style: George Cukor Classic thriller with Charles Boyer + Ingrid Bergman (already a remake of British film) is being remade.