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 …