’31 Days of Oscar’: Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) series continues with an eclectic array of 12 comedies that (hopefully) will make you laugh while forcing you to ask some tough questions.
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Four-time Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress Barbara Stanwyck delivered many of the 20th century’s most captivating big-screen performances.
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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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Charles Brackett Diaries: Billy Wilder Forgotten Partner offers lots of Old Hollywood Ugly Politics and Juicy Gossip in diary entries.
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Gary Cooper Movies: Playing Lover-Daddy to Joan Leslie, Audrey Hepburn in two of the weakest (but successful) films of his career.
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Luis Buñuel Movies: Subversive, Challenging Viridiana (‘blasphemous’ according to the Vatican) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
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Anna Magnani in Rome, Open City, known in the U.S. as Open City. ‘Rome, Open City’ returns: 4K digital restoration of Roberto Rossellini masterpiece at London’s BFI Southbank A restored…
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Kristen Stewart at Cannes Film Festival? The Great Gatsby Dead Serious Cast not on the Croisette but coming to a theater near you.
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Marlene Dietrich movies. German-born Marlene Dietrich is Turner Classic Movies last “Summer Under the Stars” star of 2011. Today, TCM is showing 12 Marlene Dietrich movies, in addition to J.…
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Shirley MacLaine movies: Billy Wilder’s The Apartment with Jack Lemmon. Shirley MacLaine movies: The Apartment & Some Came Running Shirley MacLaine is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star…
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Ginger Rogers. Ginger Rogers’ last Star of the Month evening begins on March 31 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time on Turner Classic Movies. Among the Rogers classics on TCM’s schedule…
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J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye was never made into a movie. Upon learning of author J.D. Salinger’s death at the age of 91, I immediately thought of Phil…
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Hold Back the Dawn (movie 1941) review: Olivia de Havilland showcase is also a solid romantic melodrama. Charles Boyer and Paulette Goddard costar; Mitchell Leisen directed.
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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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Ninotchka with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
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Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie, with Jack Lemmon. Saturday, June 14, highlights on Turner Classic Movies include The Third Man and several Walter Matthau movies: Many consider The Third…
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In late August, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program will present “Billy Wilder’s Europe,” a seven-film series showcasing samples of the…
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Movie Quotes Oscar Poster: Academy Makes Offer You Can’t Refuse with dozens of dialogue bits from Best Picture winners or nominees + 3 missing classic lines.
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Composer Franz Waxman tribute Press Release: Beverly Hills, CA – In celebration of Oscar®-winning composer Franz Waxman’s centennial, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the 1941 films…
Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett Movies as screenwriters and sometimes director or producer include dozen classic Hollywood films.
Billy Wilder. Johnny Carson interviews & Billy Wilder movies on TCM Billy Wilder is Turner Classic Movies’ Director of the Evening tonight, July 8, 2013. But before Wilder Evening begins, TCM…
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…
Ray Milland, Jane Wyman in Billy Wilder’s 1945 drama The Lost Weekend (bottom). The first and last best picture Oscar winners by way of the preferential voting system. The winner…
Tony Curtis will talk: Remembering Some Like It Hot co-star Marilyn Monroe, in addition to spouse and co-star Janet Leigh, and spouse and co-star Christine Kaufmann. Tony Curtis will talk: Remembering…