Best remembered for playing the creepy Omni chairman in RoboCop, Dan O’Herlihy was a one-of-a-kind Best Actor Oscar nominee during the studio era.
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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…
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Mother roles: Teresa Wright in The Actress, with daughter Jean Simmons and husband Spencer Tracy. Teresa Wright in the 1950s: From Marlon Brando leading lady to spinsters and mother roles…
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2014 RoboCop with Joel Kinnaman. 2014 ‘RoboCop’: Full-fledged domestic bomb Directed by José Padilha, and starring Joel Kinnaman and Abbie Cornish, Sony Picture’s $100 million-budgeted 2014 RoboCop remake opened with…
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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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RoboCop 1987 with Nancy Allen and Peter Weller. ‘RoboCop’ 1987 special screening featuring Nancy Allen & Peter Weller + Paul Verhoeven RoboCop, the 1987 original directed by Paul Verhoeven, and…
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Fernando Meirelles: City of God and The Constant Gardener filmmaker. RoboCop remake: ‘Hell’ for director José Padilha Fernando Meirelles (photo), the first and to date only Brazilian-born filmmaker to receive…
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Imitation of Life movie: Lana Turner, Karen Dicker, Juanita Moore, and Terry Burnham. Douglas Sirk’s classic melodrama Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner, will have its 50th anniversary celebrated with…
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A first-rate Tom Hanks learns no one is indispensable in Cast Away, Robert Zemeckis’ adventure flick exalting the Triumph of the Human Spirit nonsense.
Lana Turner: Scandals on- and off-screen. Lana Turner movies: Scandal and more scandal Lana Turner is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Saturday, Aug. 10. I’m a…
Jean Simmons movies: Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster. Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month Jean Simmons’ film series comes to a close tonight, with the presentation of seven Jean…