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 leading ladies and marriage to drug-addicted Hollywood star plus directing Dalton Trumbo socially conscious drama.
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Dana Andrews Movies: Film Noir actor outstanding in portrayals of angst-ridden characters which made him unique mix of Hollywood hero and antihero.
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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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Charles Brackett Diaries: Gay Rumors re: Brackett and son-in-law quashed, troubled Billy Wilder Partnership and right-wing politics.
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Child Actor Dickie Moore: 1 of last surviving Our Gang members, Jane Powell Husband has died. Gave Shirley Temple her 1st screen kiss.
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Cecil B. DeMille Award winners range from Walt Disney to George Clooney while women are for the most part snubbed no matter how prestigious their careers.
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Martha Stewart Not Dead? Despite reports to the contrary, the actress-singer (In a Lonely Place) is still alive. UPDATE: She died in February 2021.
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Hedy Lamarr: Invention and inventor was a 6-time-married Hollywood star honored for co-developing wifi / frequency-hopping concept.
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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: The Good the bad and the bizarre from Gary Cooper + Bette Davis to holiday season serial killer + Santa Claus sing-along horror.
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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: Andy Hardy and rediscovering Sherlock Holmes actor who made his mark as sleuth in 5 films + Woody Allen and Katharine Hepburn.
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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 Partner was one of Hollywood’s busiest leading men and favorite priest of the studio era.
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 Oscars have bypassed women for decades. Is the Academy biased? Angela Lansbury, Lauren Bacall among rare winners.
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 Returns and Largely Forgotten Oscar Nominee + Maria Ouspenskaya and 3 matchmaking ghosts.
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