Playwright Arthur Miller vs. Red Scare paranoia: The Crucible and the Salem witch hunts demythologize the concept of ‘American exceptionalism.’
Arthur Miller movies: Visions of the shattered American Dream in the ‘subversive’ family dramas All My Sons and Death of a Salesman.
Jimmy Stewart. ‘Jimmy’ Stewart: Unlikely Hollywood star enjoyed decades-long career in a variety of genres The personification of all-American aw-shucksiness – of the sort you find only in bad movies…
Edgar G. Ulmer movies on TCM: ‘The Black Cat’ & ‘Detour’ Turner Classic Movies’ June 2017 Star of the Month is Audrey Hepburn, but Edgar G. Ulmer is its film…
Raymond Massey. Raymond Massey movies: From Lincoln to Boris Karloff Though hardly remembered today, the Toronto-born Raymond Massey was a top supporting player – and sometime lead – in both…
Olivia de Havilland. Labor relations’ history-making ‘Gone with the Wind’ star and two-time Best Actress Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland turns 99 Two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Olivia de…
Don Mankiewicz co-wrote I Want to Live, starring Susan Hayward, 1958’s Best Actress Oscar winner. ‘I Want to Live!’ screenwriter Don Mankiewicz dead at 93 Veteran television and film screenwriter Don…
Shirley Jones. Shirley Jones movies: Elmer Gantry Oscar winner on TCM A few weeks ago, Shirley Jones, 79, made headlines following the publication of her book of memoirs, concisely titled…
Eleanor Parker Palm Springs resident: Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month. Eleanor Parker: Palm Springs resident turns 91 today Eleanor Parker turns 91 today. The three-time Oscar nominee (Caged,…
Janet Leigh movies: The Manchurian Candidate 1962, with Frank Sinatra. Janet Leigh would have turned 85 on Friday, July 6. In her honor, Turner Classic Movies is showing eight Janet…
Jean Simmons movies: Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster. Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month Jean Simmons’ film series comes to a close tonight, with the presentation of seven Jean…
David Nelson, best remembered as the older brother in the long-running television show The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952–66), died on Jan. 11 in Los Angeles. He was 74.…
Orpheus with Jean Marais. Starring Jean Cocteau’s muse, protégé, and (for some time) lover, Jean Marais, Orpheus traces the otherworldly trajectory of the titular, modern-day Parisian poet as he falls…
Dana Andrews movies: Complex film noir actor excelled in both major and minor crime dramas. Dana Andrews movies: First-rate film noir actor excelled in both classics & minor fare One…
Tatiana Samoilova in The Cranes Are Flying: The Russian Audrey Hepburn. Tatiana Samoilova dead at 80: ‘The Russian Audrey Hepburn’ best remembered for Cannes winner ‘The Cranes Are Flying’ Russian film…
John Garfield, Joan Crawford, Humoresque John Garfield is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star on Friday, Aug. 5, ’11. TCM will be presenting twelve John Garfield movies, in…
Novelist and playwright Joseph Hayes, best known for his stage and film adaptations of his 1954 suspense novel The Desperate Hours, died this past Sept. 11 at a nursing home…