Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe: Husband and wife from 1956 to 1961, the Broadway playwright and the Hollywood star collaborated on one major project, the ill-fated modern-day Western The Misfits…
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Playwright Arthur Miller vs. Red Scare Hysteria: The Crucible Demythologizes American Exceptionalism
Playwright Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible (1953) – about the witchcraft trials held in late-17th-century Salem – as a political allegory against the HUAC hearings held in mid-20th-century Washington, D.C.…
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Arthur Miller movies include adaptations of All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge. One of the most influential 20th-century American playwrights, Miller…
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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…
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Teresa Wright: Actress starred in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, with Pat Hingle. Teresa Wright: Actress’ Broadway comeback in ‘The Dark at the Top of the Stairs’…
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Marie Dubois: Actress in the mammoth blockbuster La Grande Vadrouille. Marie Dubois, actress in French New Wave films, dead at 77 Actress Marie Dubois, a popular French New Wave personality…
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Laurence Olivier = Kenneth Branagh in My Week with Marilyn. Once upon a time, Kenneth Branagh was hailed as the new Laurence Olivier. Back in early 1990, Branagh was nominated…
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Kennedy Center Honors: Meryl Streep among recipients Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep (right), singer Barbara Cook, singer and songwriter Neil Diamond, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and saxophonist and composer Sonny…
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Joe Dallesandro and Jane Birkin in Serge Gainsbourg’s Je t’aime moi non plus / I Love You, No I Don’t. According to the “censor watchgroup” site melonfarmers.com, Tom Six’s The…
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Tony Award winners: Eddie Redmayne in Red, with Alfred Molina. June 13 update: Hollywood took over Broadway at the 2010 Tony Awards. Or almost. Presenters included Daniel Radcliffe and Academy…
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John Forsythe in Dynasty with Joan Collins and Linda Evans. John Forsythe, best known as the oil tycoon Blake Carrington on the television series Dynasty, died on April 1 at…
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Marilyn Monroe smokes pot? As everyone’s pot-smoking grandmother used to say, “Some like pot, some like it not.” Marilyn Monroe may have been among the “some” who did like it,…
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Hypnosis and crime: Michael Redgrave and Joan Bennett in Secret Beyond the Door. April 4 update: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation you’ll be able to catch…
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Paul Scofield in A Delicate Balance with Katharine Hepburn. Benedict Nightingale’s “Paul Scofield: an overlooked acting great” in The [London] Times: “Why didn’t most theatregoers think of Paul Scofield in…
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Between Oct. 25–28, Aberystwyth’s National Library of Wales and the Aberystwyth Arts Centre will host the newly created film festival Fflics – Wales Screen Classics. Fflics will screen about 30…
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