Four-time Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress Barbara Stanwyck delivered many of the 20th century’s most captivating big-screen performances.
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John Boles. Actor & singer John Boles remembered On March 4, Turner Classic Movies is remembering actor-singer John Boles, a name that even the majority of film historians and connoisseurs…
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How to be a Latin Lover: Ricardo Cortez, formerly known as Jacob Krantz from a working-class family of Austrian/Hungarian immigrants that had settled in New York City, succeeded in restyling…
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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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Scream Queens: Top Ten List features major surprises from soundless shrieks to kinky sex obsessions and spookiest, most piercing cry ever.
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Sunset Blvd. with Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond: Final Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder collaboration. Publication of Charles Brackett diaries quashes gay rumors and reveals screenwriter-producer’s troubled relationship with his…
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Dickie Moore: Child actor was an Our Gang member. Former child actor Dickie Moore dead at 89: Film career ranged from ‘Our Gang’ shorts to features opposite Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper…
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Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree George Clooney in The Monuments Men, with Matt Damon. Produced and written by Good Night, and Good Luck. collaborators George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and…
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Martha Stewart in Doll Face, with Perry Como. Martha Stewart: Actress-Singer in Fox movies not dead despite two-year-old reports to the contrary February 2021 update: Martha Stewart died at age…
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Hedy Lamarr inventor ca. early 1940s. Hedy Lamarr: ‘Invention’ & inventor on Turner Classic Movies Two Hedy Lamarr movies released during her heyday in the early 1940s – Victor Fleming’s…
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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 MacMurray: The All-American jerk in movies such as Double Indemnity and The Apartment. Fred MacMurray movies: ‘Double Indemnity’ & There’s Always Tomorrow’ Fred MacMurray is Turner Classic Movies’ 2013…
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Women in film. Women in Film: Marilyn Monroe + Ava Gardner & dozens of movie actresses in curious morphing montage A few dozen top international female movie stars, most of…
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Edmund Goulding’s 1943 romantic drama The Constant Nymph, starring Oscar nominee Joan Fontaine, Charles Boyer, and Alexis Smith, will be shown tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 5 p.m. PT…
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Sandro Panseri in Ermanno Olmi’s Il Posto. In the next few hours, Turner Classic Movies will present one of MGM’s last silent films (with synchronized score), one of the best…
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Christmas movies on TCM: Black Christmas with Olivia Hussey. Considering the image above and the gory goings-on at its sorority house setting, perhaps “Red Christmas” would have been a more…
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I mentioned dignified, gentlemanly, and usually a little dull Walter Pidgeon the other day, wishing he had been cast as Jane Powell’s grandfather in A Date with Judy (1948) so…
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Double Indemnity poster. Regarding Barbara Stanwyck, Jacques Tourneur – who directed 11 episodes of the short-lived The Barbara Stanwyck Show – would later recall “that Barbara is one hell of…
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James Dean in Giant: George Stevens sprawling Texas-set 1956 family drama. George Stevens will be the star attraction of Turner Classic Movies’ Monday evenings in April. The series begins tonight…
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3D: Film history repeats itself. Picture above: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with Rupert Grint. (Jaap Buitendijk / Warner Bros.). ‘Hatty Potter’ & ‘Clash of the Titans’ in 3D:…
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Remember the Night: Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray learn about love’s corruptive and redemptive power of in Mitchell Leisen’s Christmas Classic.
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Christmas cheer: Love Finds Andy Hardy with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. George B. Seitz’s Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) reunited Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry (1937) co-stars Mickey Rooney and Judy…
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Sterling Hayden has his “Summer Under the Stars” Day on Saturday, Aug. 22. Now, Sterling Hayden is an interesting choice for the Turner Classic Movies series. Like previous TCM “Summer…
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John Wayne movies: The John Wayne-directed The Alamo. Image: Courtesy Turner Classic Movies. It’s John Wayne day on Tuesday, Aug. 18, as Turner Classic Movies continues with its “Summer Under…
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Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas. I can only think of one Elvis Presley song I like: “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” I don’t know if he sings…
Pat O’Brien: Actor was James Cagney’s partner in eight Warner Bros. movies. Pat O’Brien: Actor was Hollywood’s prolific ‘Resident Irishman’ & favorite priest Remember Pat O’Brien? In case you don’t,…
Lizabeth Scott: Film noir actress Lizabeth Scott: Film noir star of the 1940s and 1950s + Elvis Presley leading lady Lizabeth Scott, a Paramount star in the 1940s usually cast…
Honorary Oscar recipient Angela Lansbury and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient Angelina Jolie at the 2013 Governors Awards. September 2014 Introduction: This three-part article on the Academy of Motion Picture…
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…
Henry Fonda, like James Stewart and Gary Cooper, was one of the prototypical “All-American” actors of the studio era. But if you believe that Fonda’s generally one-dimensional characters represented the…
Film noir The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. Good news for LA-based film noirs fans: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off a…
Classic Christmas movies: Remember the Night with Barbara Stanwyck and Beulah Bondi. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, and featuring two-time Best…
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