Jackie Collins’ sex novel The Bitch became a sex movie starring sexy sister Joan Collins. Author Jackie Collins: Surprisingly few film & TV adaptations of her bestselling novels Jackie Collins,…
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Patricia Neal ca. 1950. Patricia Neal movies: ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ & ‘A Face in the Crowd’ Back in 1949, few would have predicted that Gary Cooper’s leading…
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Jane Fonda in Alan J. Pakula’s Klute. Jane Fonda movies on TCM: ‘The China Syndrome’ & ‘Klute’ + Jean-Luc Godard drama Turner Classic Movies’ 2014 “Summer Under the Stars” kicked…
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Fred Zinnemann began his career during the studio era, but kept on going, however sporadically, long after most of his contemporaries had retired. Even so, today his name means little…
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Norman Corwin, best remembered for his World War II programs during the Golden Age of Radio, died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home on Oct. 18. He was…
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Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset in The Sweet Ride. Michael Sarrazin, best known for his role as Jane Fonda’s marathon-dancing partner in Sydney Pollack’s 1969 drama They Shoot Horses, Don’t…
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Ava Gardner with Burt Lancaster in Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir The Killers. Ava Gardner is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of November. The Gardner film series begins…
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Betsy Blair, best known for her Academy Award-nominated performance as Ernest Borgnine’s love interest in the 1955 Oscar- and Palme d’Or-winning drama Marty, and for her marriage to Gene Kelly,…
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Anna Magnani in Bellissima. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) began a mini Anna Magnani retrospective, Mamma Roma: The Films of Anna Magnani, on Friday, Nov. 3. Twelve…
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Actor Anthony Franciosa died of a massive stroke this past Friday, Jan. 20, ’06, at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 77. Franciosa’s film career began late –…
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Stagy screenplay and 3 of its 4 leads hinder Fred Zinnemann’s early drug addiction drama A Hatful of Rain. Eva Marie Saint is the sole standout.
A hammy Andy Griffith + Budd Schulberg’s didactic screenplay hinder Elia Kazan’s 1957 sociopolitical drama A Face in the Crowd costarring Patricia Neal.
Movie magic screenwriter Irving Ravetch seen here on the set of Martin Ritt’s 1967 Western Hombre. Ravetch was co-responsible for some of the most indelible big-screen scenes, including those seen in…
Shelley Winters and Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun Shelley Winters, winner of two Best Supporting Actress Academy Awards, died of heart failure at the Rehabilitation Centre of…