Ruth Warrick: In show business for nearly seven decades, actress Ruth Warrick is best remembered for two disparate roles: Charles Foster Kane’s genteel wife in Orson Welles’ 1941 classic Citizen…
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Dana Andrews movies: Complex film noir actor excelled in both major and minor crime dramas. Dana Andrews movies: First-rate film noir actor excelled in both classics & minor fare One…
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The Best Years of Our Lives: Blockbuster with Teresa Wright, Fredric March, Myrna Loy, and Michael Hall. Teresa Wright: Missing out on ‘Duel in the Sun,’ but scoring with ‘The…
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Jeanne Crain films on TCM Jeanne Crain was one of 20th Century Fox’s biggest stars of the 1940s and early 1950s – one who led a tragic life, not at…
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Eugène Lourié homage: Adrienne Corri (Mrs. Alexander in A Clockwork Orange) in Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama The River. The Art Directors Guild (ADG) Film Society and the American Cinematheque (AC)…
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Gene Tierney in Laura with Clifton Webb: Classic 1944 film noir. Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb, Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 film noir Laura, one of the best…
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Jeanette MacDonald in Naughty Marietta. Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Gail Russell, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jeanette MacDonald, Emil Jannings, Jacques Tati, Nelson Eddy, Anthony Quinn, John Wayne, and…
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J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye was never made into a movie. Upon learning of author J.D. Salinger’s death at the age of 91, I immediately thought of Phil…
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Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard in Humpday. A few highlights today at the Los Angeles Film Festival, currently being held (mostly) in the Westwood Village and at the Westside’s Landmark…
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Citizen Kane Oscar: Orson Welles’ Academy Award statuette for sale. ‘Citizen Kane’ Oscar auction: Orson Welles’ Best Original Screenplay statuette to be sold Orson Welles’ Academy Award for Citizen Kane, considered…
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Otto Preminger film noir Laura with Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” will be hosted by filmmaker…