Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Feel-good political corruption comedy-drama stars Jean Arthur and James Stewart. A newly restored print of Frank Capra’s 1939 Best Picture nominee Mr. Smith Goes to…
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Fred MacMurray walks by Raymond Chandler (?) in Double Indemnity (top); Raymond Chandler lights his pipe (bottom) In a June 5 piece for The Guardian, Film London Chief Executive Adrian…
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Writer, director, actor, and producer Carl Reiner, among whose feature-film credits are the George Burns hit Oh God! (1977) and several Steve Martin vehicles, is the subject of a mini-retrospective…
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Ann Savage: Detour film noir actress who became a cult celebrity thanks to her memorably unglamorous psychopathic villainess dead at age 89.
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Barbara Stanwyck. Barbara Stanwyck movies There have probably been few transformations more striking than that of Ruby Stevens of Brooklyn into Barbara Stanwyck of Hollywood – the highest-paid woman in…
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William Holden in Picnic with Kim Novak. At Moving Images Source, Michael Atkinson discusses William Holden in “St. Bill of Illinois”: As per Atkinson, William Holden was “on the surface…
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Sessue Hayakawa on Turner Classic Movies Tuesday, June 3, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: TCM continues with the not-to-be-missed “Asian Images in Film” series, with several silents and a couple…
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Leave Her to Heaven: Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the Technicolor film noir (yes, there was such a thing) Leave…
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The new documentary Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood and five Pre-Code films will be shown on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, March 3 (more details…
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“Chick flick movies” vs. women’s pictures: Ruth Chatterton in The Lady of Secrets with Robert Allen. ‘Chick flick movies’ vs. women’s picture Ruth Chatterton knew better than most how to…
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Screenwriter, director, and producer Costa-Gavras, 74, never one to shy away from inflammatory themes, will be honored with the second-ever Eisenstein Award handed out by the University of Southern California’s…
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Hollywood Home Movies: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart (top); Esther Williams (bottom). Rarely seen home movies from the personal collections of Alfred Hitchcock, Esther Williams (above), Steve McQueen, Lauren Bacall…
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Film noir New York: Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Whenever I think of film noir, I – somewhat incongruously – immediately picture murder and mayhem…
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Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Zinnemann, Fay Wray, Henri-Georges Clouzot, T.E.B. Clarke, Yves Allégret, Dan Duryea, Paula Wessely, Burgess Meredith, John Wayne, Gene Autry, Run Run Shaw, and the list…
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More than 70 original movie posters and lobby cards for Barbara Stanwyck movies will be on display in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new exhibition, “Presenting Miss…
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Julie Andrews, whose film career spans more than four decades, will be the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award’s supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (sorry) recipient at the 2007 SAG Awards ceremony on Jan.…
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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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Sean Connery as James Bond: Prestige decades after commercial success. Sean Connery: James Bond star and Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner to receive AFI Life Achievement Award Sean Connery, best…
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Joel McCrea. Joel McCrea movies: LACMA’s ‘Centenary Tribute’ to Old Hollywood star Joel McCrea, the star of numerous light comedies, melodramas, and Westerns from the early the 1930s to the…
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Mary Astor. Classic film festival Cinecon: Lots of rarities + pre-scandal Mary Astor & Mary Miles Minter There’ll be rare movies aplenty at Los Angeles’ mini-film festival Cinecon. For starters,…
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Brazilian cinema at MoMA Brazilian cinema will return to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in July. MoMA will be presenting the third edition of “Premiere Brazil!” between July…
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Sorrell and Son movie: Adult themes aplenty in father-son drama starring a superlative H.B. Warner. Anna Q. Nilsson, Alice Joyce + Nils Asther costar.
Edward G. Robinson. One of the greatest film actors of all time: Edward G. Robinson can be appreciated on Wednesday, Aug. 20, on Turner Classic Movies. Like Barbara Stanwyck, TCM’s…
Car racing movie? Not exactly, but Dorothy Malone respects no speed limits in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind. May 8 highlights on Turner Classic Movies: John Frankenheimer’s car racing epic,…
Marie Dressler in Dinner at Eight. It’s Oscar time. What better way to celebrate the 2008 Academy Awards than by having a q&a about the best actress Oscar winner ……
Barbara Stanwyck in The Furies. “A Lady to Talk About: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck” is the title of the retrospective being presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive…
Theda Bara in ‘Cleopatra’: ‘The Woman with the Hungry Eyes’ screening at MoMA Theda Bara: ‘Cleopatra’ Star Featured in Documentary The Woman with the Hungry Eyes, about the life and…
Shirley Temple curls finally rewarded: Next SAG Life Achievement Award recipient Shirley Temple, the biggest curly-haired child star in film history, is now a grown woman. In fact, she has…
Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace greatly assist Paul Weitz’s timid socially conscious comedy In Good Company. Also in the cast: Scarlett Johansson.
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