Actress Ann Sothern enjoyed an unusual second career peak that included a top Oscar winner and decades later she became one of the oldest nominees.
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As an RKO and MGM star, sassy blonde Ann Sothern had an unconventional professional trajectory: A and B movies in a decades-long film career that had no less than 2 peaks.
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Loretta Young in the early 1930s. Loretta Young movies on TCM Loretta Young, whose movie stardom lasted a surprising quarter of a century, who then went on to become an…
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Oscar curse? Two-time Best Actress Luise Rainer remembers In Mason Wiley and Damien Bona’s Inside Oscar, Luise Rainer is quoted as saying the following about winning back-to-back Best Actress Academy…
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Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Dames Joan Blondell has always been a favorite of mine, much like fellow wisecracking 1930s Warner Bros. players Aline MacMahon and Glenda Farrell. The fact that…
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Joan Bennett movies: Scarlet Street Joan Bennett is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Evening this Wednesday, May 11. TCM has already shown Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945), in which…
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The Whales of August with Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Vincent Price, and Ann Sothern. According to my math, the careers of the three leading ladies – Lillian Gish, Bette Davis,…
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Lady in a Cage (movie 1964) review: Olivia de Havilland delivers a tour de force in Walter Grauman’s horror cult classic with a side of scathing social commentary. James Caan costars.
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Curtis Harrington, best known as the director of numerous stylized horror films, died at age 80 on Sunday evening, May 6, at his Hollywood Hills home. Born in Los Angeles…
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Hedy Lamarr biography: Discussing Charles Boyer’s romantic interest in in Algiers. See previous post: Hedy Lamarr: Q&A with Author Patrick Agan: Part II Is it true that Hedy Lamarr refused…
Kirk Douglas is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of September. Though hardly a great film actor – or even a good one – Douglas has had one of…
The Killing Kind with Ann Sothern and John Savage. When I read that The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film described Curtis Harrington’s The Killing Kind as “a seldom-seen sickie” I just…
Robert Sterling, the handsome leading man of several 1940s B movies and the star of the TV series Topper, died of natural causes at his home in the Los Angeles…