Howard Keel in Dallas with Donna Reed: late 20th-century mainstream resurgence of two former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars. On Season 8 (1984–1985) of CBS’s hit TV soap Dallas (1978–1991), 1950s MGM contract…
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Howard Keel MGM musicals: Texas Carnival publicity shot with Esther Williams. In his MGM musicals of the 1950s, Howard Keel was almost always paired with small, girl-like leading ladies –…
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Joan Crawford in ‘Mildred Pierce’: Best Actress Oscar winner enjoyed a triumphant comeback. ‘Mildred Pierce’ 1945 movie review: Very entertaining ‘soap opera’ Time has a way of making some films…
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Ann Blyth today on TCM Ann Blyth today: Light songs and heavy drama on TCM Ann Blyth, a 1940s Universal leading lady best remembered for her Oscar-nominated performance as Joan…
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Ann Blyth is Turner Classic Movies Star of the Evening tonight, as part of TCM’s “The Essentials” film series. (See Ann Blyth Movie Schedule below.) Opera- and Broadway-trained Ann Blyth…
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Joan Crawford is Turner Classic Movies’ next “Summer Under the Stars” star. On Monday, Aug. 22, TCM will be showing 13 Joan Crawford movies, in addition to Peter Fitzgerald’s documentary…
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The daughter of silent film actress Anna Lehr and director Edward McKim, Ann Dvorak began her film career at the dawn of the sound era. The pretty, wide-eyed Dvorak was…
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Ann Blyth. Ann Blyth, who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the film noir Mildred Pierce (1945), is pictured above during a discussion following a screening of the…
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Double Indemnity poster. Regarding Barbara Stanwyck, Jacques Tourneur – who directed 11 episodes of the short-lived The Barbara Stanwyck Show – would later recall “that Barbara is one hell of…
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Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom in The Student Prince Edmund Purdom, best known for his roles in two 1954 productions, the musical The Student Prince and the period epic The Egyptian,…
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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…