Gunga Din (movie 1939): George Stevens’ adventure pays homage to British colonialism while revamping The Front Page. Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. star.
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Joan Bennett: The Criterion Channel is presenting 10 films starring the personable and underrated actress whose big-screen roles ranged from spirited blondes to sultry brunettes.
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Kay Francis. Kay Francis revisited: One of the brightest & most underrated Hollywood stars of the 1930s Kay Francis is the star of the day (April 9) on Turner Classic…
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Updated: Following a couple of Julie London Westerns*, Turner Classic Movies will return to its July 2017 Star of the Month presentations. This evening, July 27, Ronald Colman can be…
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Canadian-born actress Alexis Smith (born 1921) would have turned 96 years old on June 8. Turner Classic Movies is celebrating her birthday by presenting nine of her movies, mostly during…
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Submarine movie evening: Underwater war waged in TCM’s Memorial Day films In the U.S., Turner Classic Movies has gone all red, white, and blue this 2017 Memorial Day weekend, presenting…
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Blake Edwards Movies: The Pink Panther filmmaker at his best directing not slapstick but more refined comedies and surprisingly effective serious dramas.
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Marion Cotillard naked and dead in Psycho Shower Scene featuring homage to iconic Janet Leigh moment in Alfred Hitchcock horror classic.
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Virginia Bruce Movies: Actress known as Cherry on Pretty Girl Wedding Cake did NOT go from Great Ziegfeld to Paul Morrissey despite claims.
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movies: From Toyboy to Drug Smuggler in pre-Production Code movies such as Parachute Jumper and Little Caesar.
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Raymond Massey Movies: From Oscar-nominated Abraham Lincoln to Boris Karloff in addition to H.G. Wells visionary and James Dean’s father.
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Jayne Meadows dead at 95: Minor Movie Actress Became Emmy-Nominated Television Celebrity and wife of TV personality Steve Allen.
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Robert Redford Movies: Two of the Biggest Blockbusters Ever and War Hero or Serial Killer? The future Hollywood icon in an early subversive war movie.
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Cary Grant Movies: An Affair to Remember Blacklisted Screenwriter Receives No Credit as Real Life ugliness part of romantic screen fantasy.
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Polly Bergen, actress in Hollywood and on Broadway, was on Richard Nixon’s extended Enemies List, along with other liberal Democrat celebrities.
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Drew Barrymore sister Jessica Barrymore. Drew Barrymore half-sister Jessica Barrymore found dead near San Diego Drew Barrymore’s half-sister Jessica Barrymore was found dead in her car early Tuesday, July 29,…
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Shirley Temple: Child actress turned teen actress in the 1940s Shirley Temple dead at 85: Was one of the biggest domestic box office draws of the 1930s Shirley Temple, one…
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Bryce Dallas Howard. Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World? Howard possibly the next female star in Jurassic Park franchise Bryce Dallas Howard, Rush director Ron Howard’s daughter perhaps best known…
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Irene Dunne. Irene Dunne movies: Five-time Best Actress Academy Award nominee starred in now-forgotten originals of well-remembered remakes For over a decade a couple of dozen Irene Dunne movies have…
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Kirk Douglas: Hollywood star of the 1950s and 1960s. Kirk Douglas movies: Theatrical, larger than life performances Kirk Douglas, a three-time Best Actor Academy Award nominee and one of the…
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Glenda Farrell. Glenda Farrell: Actress has her ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day Scene-stealer Glenda Farrell is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star on Aug. 29. A reliable –…
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Randolph Scott Westerns, comedies, war dramas: TCM schedule on August 19, 2013 See previous post: “Cary Grant and Randolph Scott Marriages – And ‘Expect the Biographical Worst.’” 3:00 AM BADMAN’S…
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Randolph Scott and Cary Grant ca. 1933: Gay lovers? Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay lovers or good friends and roommates? (See previous post: “Randolph Scott Movies: From Westerns to…
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Randolph Scott ca. 1945. Randolph Scott movies: From Westerns to Cary Grant / Irene Dunne comedy Handsome, granite-faced Randolph Scott is Turner Classic Movies’ next great choice in its “Summer…
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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…
‘Making Love’: Groundbreaking romantic gay drama returns to the big screen As part of its Anniversary Classics series, Laemmle Theaters will be presenting Arthur Hiller’s groundbreaking 1982 romantic drama Making…
William Cameron Menzies Movies: Murderous Joan Fontaine, Howard Hughes’ Nazi Communists out to destroy American Way of Life.
Rex Ingram (Actor): Early Black Performer in Hollywood Movies such as Cabin in the Sky. He also played the Genie in The Thief of Bagdad 1940.
Cary Grant Films: Gender-Bending Comedy I Was a Male War Bride with Grant as French wife but badly miscast in macho roles.
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…
Production designer J. Michael Riva. Marlene Dietrich Grandson J. Michael Riva, Robert Clatworthy, and Harper Goff: Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame 2014 Production Designers Robert Clatworthy, Harper Goff, and…
Cary Grant and Randolph Scott having some pool fun. Cary Grant and Randolph Scott marriages (See previous post: “Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay Lovers?“) The English-born Cary Grant was…