Teresa Wright and Samuel Goldwyn had an ugly parting in 1948, when the producer publicly fired and berated his Oscar-winning contract star.
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Meet Me in St. Louis with Margaret O’Brien, Judy Garland Hugh Martin, best known for co-composing with Ralph Blane “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” sung by Judy Garland in …
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Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, Francis Ford Coppola and Wife Eleanor at the Oscars as movie veterans honored with special career awards.
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Marion Davies in King Vidor’s Show People. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which decades ago was the most financially stable of the Hollywood studios, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. MGM – initially …
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. “Late Hawks” is the title of a film series featuring the, what else?, later efforts of Hollywood auteur Howard Hawks, which …
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Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands in director Steve McQueen’s Hunger. With six wins, Steve McQueen’s Hunger was the big winner at the 2009 Irish Academy Awards. The story of Irish …
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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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A Hatful of Rain (1957) review: Eva Marie Saint is the standout in Fred Zinnemann’s drug addiction drama seriously impaired by its theatricality.
Rosanna Schiaffino, Vince Edwards in Carl Foreman’s The Victors (1963) Rosanna Schiaffino, the sensual leading lady of dozens of Italian (and a few international) productions of the ’60s and early …
Warner’s Doris Day DVD Collection box set include several of the bright star’s biggest hits – comedies and musicals – and even one of her rare (big-budget) flops.