Barbara Stanwyck: Busy Hollywood actress known as a “consummate professional,” Stanwyck never took home a competitive Academy Award even though, over the course of her 35-year film career, she delivered…
Carol Lynley movies: In her heyday, the Blue Denim, Bunny Lake Is Missing, and The Poseidon Adventure actress was often cast as dreamy girl-next-door types who were ready, willing, and…
Sunset Blvd. with Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond: Final Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder collaboration. Publication of Charles Brackett diaries quashes gay rumors and reveals screenwriter-producer’s troubled relationship with his…
Charles Brackett ca. 1945: Billy Wilder screenwriting partner (1936–1949), producer (1945–1949) and Hollywood diarist. Q&A with ‘Charles Brackett Diaries’ editor Anthony Slide: Billy Wilder’s screenwriter-producer partner in his own words…
Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett – and D.M. Marshman Jr. – collaboration: Sunset Blvd., starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden, and directed by Wilder. Billy Wilder & Charles Brackett movies…
To Each His Own with Olivia de Havilland and John Lund. ‘To Each His Own’ movie review: Best Actress Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland stars in Mother Love tearjerker Olivia…
Hold Back the Dawn: Olivia de Havilland with co-stars Charles Boyer and Paulette Goddard. Hold Back the Dawn 1941 movie: Olivia de Havilland steals show as small-town teacher in love…
Alfred Hitchcock heroine Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt, facing serial killer Joseph Cotten. Teresa Wright in ‘Shadow of a Doubt’: Alfred Hitchcock heroine in the director’s favorite film…
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.…
Ninotchka with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Ernst Lubitsch’s sparkling Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture…