More ‘Gay Hollywood’ movies: Montgomery Clift & Anthony Perkins On the day a U.S. appeals court lifted an injunction that blocked a Mississippi “religious freedom” law – i.e., giving Christian…
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Teresa Wright and Samuel Goldwyn had an ugly parting in 1948, when the producer publicly fired and berated his Oscar-winning contract star.
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Pretty Poison with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins: Noel Black-directed cult crime classic. Cult movie classic Pretty Poison filmmaker Noel Black has died Noel Black, best remembered for the 1968…
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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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Anthony Hopkins: Hitchcock. Anthony Hopkins ‘Hitchcock’ poster: ‘Psycho’ style The Hitchcock poster above shares a few elements with the Psycho 1960 poster, such as the splitting of the image into…
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William Wyler was one of the greatest film directors Hollywood – or any other film industry – has ever produced. Today, Wyler lacks the following of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford,…
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Tab Hunter turns 80 today. In his honor, Turner Classic Movies is airing five of his films. The first of the batch, Phil Karlson’s Western Gunman’s Walk, is on right…
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Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror thriller Psycho caused a sensation when it opened in June about fifty years ago. There were a number of reasons for that, one of them being…
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Audrey Hepburn movies all day on Tuesday, Aug. 11, on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Hepburn is the day’s “Summer Under the Stars” movie star. (See Audrey Hepburn Movie Schedule further…
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Maurice Jarre: 3-time Oscar-winning composer receiving Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement + Academy blocks sale of 2 Mary Pickford Oscars.
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Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Intermezzo. Ingrid Bergman movies on Monday, Aug. 25, on Turner Classic Movies: Before being vilified, accursed, and banished from Hollywood because of her adulterous affair with…
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Sunday, Aug. 24, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: The romantic melodrama Jezebel (actually a Bette Davis vehicle), the courtroom drama 12 Angry Men, and Franklin J. Schaffner’s film adaptation of…
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Batman TV series with Batman and Robin: Adam West and Burt Ward. Batman TV series vs. Batman movies: Co-creator Lorenzo Semple Jr. has his say Lorenzo Semple Jr., co-creator of the…
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Butterflies Are Free with Edward Albert Jr. and Goldie Hawn. Edward Albert, Goldie Hawn’s leading man in the 1972 romantic comedy Butterflies Are Free, died of lung cancer at his…
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Author Henry Farrell, whose Grand Guignol tales What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte? were successfully adapted for the screen in the 1960s, died…
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Starring a fantastically off-kilter Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sletaune’s thriller Next Door ventures into territory that remained off-limits to Alfred Hitchcock.
San Francisco Symphony & Cary Grant in ‘North by Northwest.’ San Francisco Symphony salutes Alfred Hitchcock: Halloween movies and Hitchcock movie music The San Francisco Symphony will celebrate Alfred Hitchcock…
Paul Leni’s The Man Who Laughs, starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin. Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Alida Valli, Pierre Brasseur, Angela Lansbury, Conrad Veidt, Sean Connery, John Wayne, Gene Wilder,…
Janet Leigh: Peaches-and-cream heroine became effective dramatic actress. Janet Leigh, discovered by former MGM star Norma Shearer, was one of the many pretty (and quite talented) actresses who were mostly…
Kathleen Turner Autobiography Send Yourself Roses: On William Hurt (Body Heart) + Nicolas Cage (Peggy Sue Got Married) + Burt Reynolds (Switching Channels).