Actress Carol Lynley: Why the dramatic career downturn? The 1970s were a problematic decade for Hollywood film actresses; still, it’s hard to understand why her post-The Poseidon Adventure movies mostly…
Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Gentleman’s Agreement Elia Kazan: Actors Director Elia Kazan is best remembered today for two things: his association with Marlon Brando during the first half of the…
Ben Johnson isn’t exactly what one would call a movie icon; Johnson isn’t even a Western icon, despite his presence in numerous Old (and not-so-Old) West movies during his 50+-year…
Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson: Husband and wife team on the Oscars’ Red Carpet. Eli Wallach & Anne Jackson at the Academy Awards Eli Wallach and wife Anne Jackson are…
Lilli Palmer and Gary Cooper in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (top); Carroll Baker in Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll (bottom). The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (website) 20th Anniversary…
Jean-Luc Godard. Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach (right), Kevin Brownlow, and Francis Ford Coppola have been chosen as the recipients of the 2010 special Academy Awards. Godard, Brownlow, and Wallach will…
Karl Malden, Tyrone Power in Diplomatic Courier (1952) Karl Malden, who won a best supporting actor Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951, died “of natural causes” at his…
Psychological movies: Movies on the Mind since Sigmund Freud “I don’t believe it’s possible to graphically represent the abstract nature of our thinking in a respectable form,” said Sigmund Freud.…