Independence Day movies: Exuberant all-white all-Iowan marching band + lovely and talented Joan Leslie + racist British imperialism salute.
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(See previous post: Fourth of July Movies: Escapism During a Weird Year.) On the evening of the Fourth of July, besides fireworks, fire hazards, and Yankee Doodle Dandy, if you’re…
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Merle Oberon: Glamour Actress with mysterious past dons men’s clothes and fights Nazis, but her private life more dramatic than her films.
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Maureen O’Hara Movies: TCM Tribute to Queen of Technicolor featured opposite John Wayne in 5 movies including the John Ford classic The Quiet Man.
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Teresa Wright Movies: Deceptively Demure Heroine in The Little Foxes, The Pride of the Yankees and Alfred Hitchcock drama Shadow of a Doubt.
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Jeanne Crain in The Fan with Madeleine Carroll. Jeanne Crain: Lighthearted movies vs. real life tragedies (See previous post: “Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.”) Unlike her characters…
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Douglas Sirk blockbuster Imitation of Life, with Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, and Karin Dicker. Douglas Sirk movies: ‘Imitation of Life,’ ‘Written on the Wind’ Douglas Sirk is Turner Classic Movies’…
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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 Taylor. Joan Taylor dead at 82: Actress featured in ’20 Million Miles to Earth,’ ‘Earth vs. the Flying Saucers’ Actress Joan Taylor, best remembered for two sci-fi/horror B movies…
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Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima (1951). At the end of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso, small-town projectionist Philippe Noiret has died and the Nuovo…
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Linda Darnell. Linda Darnell, the gorgeous leading lady of numerous 20th Century Fox productions of the 1940s, is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” player on Aug. 27. TCM,…
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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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Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven In my view, Gene Tierney was not only one of the most beautiful but also one of the most underrated…
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Oberon Movies: Mysterious Oscar-nominated actress led intriguing off-screen life rivaling roles she played on the big screen in England and Hollywood.
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Gloria Grahame in Crossfire. In films, Grahame usually came across as vulgar, sleazy, and untrustworthy – and I mean that as a compliment; in my book, shady movie characters have…
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Leave Her to Heaven: Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the Technicolor film noir (yes, there was such a thing) Leave…
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Arthur Franz in ‘The Sniper.’ Arthur Franz bio: Veteran movie and television actor has died Film and television actor Arthur Franz died on June 18 in Oxnard, California. Until recently,…
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Theda Bara in ‘Cleopatra’: ‘The Woman with the Hungry Eyes’ screening at MoMA Theda Bara: ‘Cleopatra’ Star Featured in Documentary The Woman with the Hungry Eyes, about the life and…
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.
Betty Hutton. Betty Hutton: Paramount’s Troubled Blonde Bombshell Energetic, electric, exuberant, effusive, brassy, spunky, hyper, manic – these are all qualities that could (and most likely have been) used to…
Actor George Baker, best known for playing Tiberius in the British television series I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, died on Oct. 7 according to The…
Ginger Rogers. Ginger Rogers’ last Star of the Month evening begins on March 31 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time on Turner Classic Movies. Among the Rogers classics on TCM’s schedule…
As part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Gold Standard Series, the Academy Foundation will present the premiere of the newly restored “film noir” Leave Her to…