Arthur Askey: For decades, the British comedian was a vaudeville, radio, and television celebrity in his home country. Never an international name, Askey was also featured in a handful of…
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Virginia Mayo: The honey-blonde – at times red-haired – heroine of Technicolor fare like Wonder Man, The Flame and the Arrow, and Painting the Clouds with Sunshine, Virginia Mayo was…
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Honorary Oscar: George Stevens Jr. George Stevens Jr. is the founding director of the American Film Institute. During his tenure, the AFI established the Center for Advanced Film Studies and…
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Clint Eastwood chair speech. Clint Eastwood chair speech at Republican National Convention It was less a bizarre “Clint Eastwood Chair Speech” than a bizarre “Clint Eastwood Chair Performance Artwork” at…
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Ann Rutherford Gone with the Wind actress dies. Ann Rutheford, best remembered as Scarlett O’Hara’s younger sister Carreen in the 1939 blockbuster Gone with the Wind, died earlier this evening…
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Is Raging Bull 2 getting cast? Raging Bull 2? First of all, let me clarify that this isn’t an April’s Fools joke. At least not on my part. And let…
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Mary Tyler Moore Mary Tyler Moore has been named the recipient of the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals…
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Actor James Earl Jones and make-up artist Dick Smith will receive Honorary Awards, and former television hostess Oprah Winfrey will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Academy of Motion…
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French dancer and choreographer Roland Petit died in Geneva on Sunday. Petit was 87. Associated with the Paris Opera Ballet and the Ballet de Marseille for a number of years,…
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Farley Granger: Gay actor played early gay movie character in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope. Farley Granger, best known for the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951),…
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Sean Connery in From Russia with Love. The American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre will present six features (and several shorts) made in the dye-transfer Technicolor process (a.k.a. I.B. or “imbibition”), beginning…
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Left to right: Costume worn by Danny Kaye in The Inspector General (1949), designed by Travilla. Costume worn by Viveca Lindfors in The Adventures of Don Juan (1948), designed by…
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Jerry Lewis: Comedian host of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Telethon will be receiving the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, given since the 1957…
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Shirley Temple curls finally rewarded: Next SAG Life Achievement Award recipient Shirley Temple, the biggest curly-haired child star in film history, is now a grown woman. In fact, she has…