Howard Keel: Dallas resurgence as rancher Clayton Farlow following abrupt career downfall and decades-long Hollywood purgatory.
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MGM musicals box office struggle: Howard Keel Hollywood woes included 2 prestigious star vehicles that *should* have succeeded. Could his career be saved?
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Ann Blyth Today
8 minutes readAnn 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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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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Joan Crawford Movies: Flamingo Road + Torch Song
6 minutes readJoan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Clark Gable in Forsaking All Others. Joan Crawford is Turner Classic Movies’ next “Summer Under the Stars” star. On Monday, Aug. 22, TCM will be …
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Ann Dvorak Movies: Scarface + I Was an American Spy
7 minutes readThe 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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Mildred Pierce (Movie 1945): Fabulous Joan Crawford
6 minutes readMildred Pierce (movie 1945) review: Oscar winner Joan Crawford is terrific as psycho Ann Blyth’s devoted mother in Michael Curtiz’s noir melo. Zachary Scott and Jack Carson costar.
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Divas and Goddesses: From Barbara Stanwyck + Joan Crawford to Alla Nazimova + Greta Garbo
11 minutes readDouble 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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Edmund Purdom: The Student Prince + The Egyptian
2 minutes readAnn 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 + Middle-Aged: Eclectic DVD Showcase
3 minutes readJoan 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 …
Actress Ann Blyth Sings in ‘Rose Marie’ & ‘Kismet’
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 …
Ann Blyth & Lizabeth Scott Today + Doris Day Honors James Cagney
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 …