Howard Keel: Actor-singer embodied brawny American manliness in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals of the 1950s such as Annie Get Your Gun + Show Boat.
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Turner Classic Movies continues with its Gay Hollywood presentations tonight and tomorrow morning, June 8–9. Seven movies will be shown about, featuring, directed, or produced by the following: Cole Porter,…
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31 Days of Oscar: Ben-Hur Proves That Bigger not Necessarily Better plus grandiose David Lean while Spencer Tracy nearly ruins British drama.
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Debbie Reynolds Movies: The Singing Nun Offers Sunny Contrast to Tragic Life of Sister Jeanne Deckers whose song Dominique became global hit.
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Father’s Day Top 5 Movies: From Compassionate Gregory Peck to Sociopath John Gielgud in addition to other kind and demented film daddies.
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Veterans Day Movies: Good, Bad and Worse from Patton to The Sullivans (whose story inspired Saving Private Ryan) and subversive Pride of the Marines.
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Mickey Rooney movies on TCM: Music and murder (image: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland ca. 1940) Mickey Rooney is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star today, August 13,…
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Celeste Holm, a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winner who was recently enmeshed in a nasty and costly legal fight with her two sons, died Sunday morning, July 15, at…
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Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Clark Gable in Forsaking All Others. Joan Crawford is Turner Classic Movies’ next “Summer Under the Stars” star. On Monday, Aug. 22, TCM will be…
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Effervescent actress-singer-dancer-movie memorabilia collector Debbie Reynolds is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Day on Friday, August 18, as TCM continues its “Summer Under the Stars” series. TCM is presenting…
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Anne Francis (minus beauty mark) in Henry Koster’s Elopement, with William Lundigan. Anne Francis (born Sept. 16, 1930, in Ossining, N.Y.), best known for sporting a futuristic mini-skirt in Fred…
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Zsa Zsa Gabor. Actress-celebrity Zsa Zsa Gabor, 93, has asked for a priest to read her the last rites according to various reports. Gabor remains in critical condition at Los…
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Ginger Rogers is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of March. Most of the films – perhaps all of them – have been shown on TCM before. So, don’t…
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Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin in On the Town. Bobby-soxer-turned-blue-haired-matron idol Frank Sinatra will have his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Friday, Aug. 28. Turner Classic Movies will…
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Leslie Caron in Gigi. Leslie Caron will be on hand for the premiere of a new digital restoration of Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 Best Picture Oscar winner Gigi on Oct. 10…
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Gene Kelly in Les Girls with Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg. Gene Kelly and Jack Palance: Sunday-Monday, Aug. 17–18, highlights on Turner Classic Movies. Gene Kelly and Jack…
Fred Astaire Movies: Dancing in the Dark, dancing on the Ceiling and with Ginger Rogers in several RKO and MGM classic musicals.
Esther Williams. Esther Williams: Swimwear-garbed star of MGM Technicolor musicals dead at 91 Esther Williams, known for her swimming skills and ability to smile and keep her make-up and coiffure…
Jane Wyman in The Lost Weekend with Ray Milland. Jane Wyman, unfairly known by many merely as Ronald Reagan’s first wife, is the “star of the day” on Turner Classic…
Esther Williams: Swimsuit Star on TCM DVD box set featuring culturally and sociologically curious aquamusicals Million Dollar Mermaid + Easy to Love.
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.