Katy Jurado on Turner Classic Movies’ ‘Summer Under the Stars’: Twelve titles featuring the first Mexican actress to receive an Oscar nomination, but nothing from her South of the Rio …
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Barbara Stanwyck: One of Cinema’s Most Charismatic Performers
11 minutes readFour-time Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress Barbara Stanwyck delivered many of the 20th century’s most captivating big-screen performances.
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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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Jack Huston in Ben-Hur Remake?
9 minutes readJack Huston cast in Ben-Hur remake? Huston to follow in the hugely successful footsteps of Ramon Novarro and Charlton Heston.
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Gore Vidal Controversial Movies: Gay Ben-Hur Subtext?
5 minutes readGore Vidal movies: The Best Man, Caligula, Suddenly Last Summer. (Image: A young Gore Vidal.) Author, playwright, screenwriter, acerbic storyteller, and political commentator Gore Vidal died on July 31 at …
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William Wyler: Oscar Top Actors Director
6 minutes readWilliam Wyler was one of the greatest film directors Hollywood – or any other film industry – has ever produced. Today, Wyler lacks the following of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, …
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Earthquake 1974 Revamped: Seismic catastrophe to wipe out California + bring estranged couple back like Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner.
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Charlton Heston Films: Khartoum + Soylent Green
4 minutes readCharlton Heston movies: Ben-Hur 1959. It’s Charlton Heston Movies Day on Thursday, Aug. 28, on Turner Classic Movies. Charlton Heston was a graduate cum laude of the Paul Muni School …
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Janet Leigh Films: Touch of Evil + Act of Violence
4 minutes readJanet Leigh: Peaches-and-cream heroine became effective dramatic actress. Janet Leigh, discovered by former MGM star Norma Shearer, was one of the many pretty (and quite talented) actresses who were mostly …
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For an actor of such limited range, Charlton Heston, who died earlier this evening at the age of 84, had a pretty remarkable career. He starred in several of the …
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Ben-Hur 1959 Charlton Heston. ‘Ben-Hur’ 1959 & 1925 on DVD: Charlton Heston & Ramon Novarro movies Ben-Hur, both the 1959 and 1925 versions starring, respectively, Charlton Heston and Ramon Novarro, …
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Ahmed Zaki: Egyptian Movie Star Portrayed Nasser & Sadat
4 minutes readEgyptian movie star Ahmed Zaki is best remembered for playing presidents Gamal Abdul Nasser and Anwar Sadat in flag-waving historical dramas.
Charlton Heston. Charlton Heston: Moses has his ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day In 1985, Barbara Stanwyck told People magazine, “Whenever I get into trouble on the set [of The Colbys], …
Ken Annakin, best remembered for directing the big-budget 1965 adventure comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, died on April 22 at his home in Beverly Hills. Like fellow …
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. …