Actress Joan Blondell on Turner Classic Movies’ ‘Summer Under the Stars’ series: TCM will be airing no less than 16 titles featuring Warner Bros.’ wisecracking, Depression era anti-heroine.
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Frances Dee movies: From ‘An American Tragedy’ to ‘Four Faces West’ Frances Dee began her film career at the dawn of the sound era, going from extra to leading lady …
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Pat O’Brien: Actor was James Cagney Partner was one of Hollywood’s busiest leading men and favorite priest of the studio era.
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movies: From Toyboy to Drug Smuggler in pre-Production Code movies such as Parachute Jumper and Little Caesar.
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Ann Dvorak and Rudy Vallee in Sweet Music. See previous post: Ann Dvorak: Hollywood Rebel. Ann Dvorak’s best-remembered film is probably the 1932 Scarface, starring Paul Muni, directed by Howard …
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Ann Dvorak: Hollywood’s Forgotten Rebel
9 minutes readAnn Dvorak The name Ann Dvorak wouldn’t ring even a faint bell for most people around at the beginning of the 21st century. Most people, I said – but definitely …
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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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The new documentary Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood and five Pre-Code films will be shown on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, March 3 (more details …
Warner Archive: Debbie Reynolds, seen here with Greer Garson and Ricardo Montalban on the set of The Singing Nun, is one of the featured stars. New Warner Archive releases: Debbie Reynolds …
Car Racing Movies: From All-Star ‘Grand Prix’ to Post-‘Star Wars’ Mark Hamill ‘Corvette Summer’
Car racing movie? Not exactly, but Dorothy Malone respects no speed limits in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind. May 8 highlights on Turner Classic Movies: John Frankenheimer’s car racing epic, …