West End Theater Raves and Best Actress Tony Award plus Laurence Olivier Costar in Eugene O’Neill masterwork: Minor Columbia Actress Went Far.
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Robert Mitchum Movies: The Yakuza surprising casting and effectively cast against type in David Lean’s troubled Ryan’s Daughter with Sarah Miles.
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Best British Movies of All Time: Get Carter or Lawrence of Arabia or The Third Man? That depends on who gets polled. And when, by whom.
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Christopher Jones in Ryan’s Daughter. ‘Ryan’s Daughter’ actor Christopher Jones dead at 72: Quit acting after nervous breakdown resulting from Sharon Tate murder Christopher Jones, who had a key role…
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Alec Guinness. Alec Guinness movies: Pre-‘Star Wars’ Guinness runs the gamut from Dickens’ Fagin to Japanese businessman romancing Rosalind Russell Alec Guinness is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars”…
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Peter O’Toole: Troy and Lawrence of Arabia has announced his retirement. O’Toole is seen above as T.E. Lawrence in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia. Peter O’Toole retires from acting. Stage and…
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Andrew Sarris, auteur theory proponent in the U.S., died earlier today at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, apparently of complications caused by a stomach virus. Sarris, who was 83, was…
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Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif. White men rule on TCM: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ & ‘The Four Feathers’ + ‘Young Winston’ Turner Classic Movies’ “Race and Hollywood:…
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Jean Simmons in Great Expectations with Martita Hunt. Jean Simmons is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of June. Though never a major box office draw, Simmons either starred…
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Brief Encounter with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. Brief Encounter one-line synopsis: A married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a housewife (Celia Johnson) have an adulterous (and platonic) affair. The Pros:…
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Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia Peter O’Toole on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday, Aug. 28., TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” series has only four more…
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John Mills. John Mills movies: Oscar-winning British actor Unfortunately, nine of the ten John Mills films to be shown on Turner Classic Movies as part of their month-long “Summer Under…
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Ronald Neame disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure with Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons. Ronald Neame, best-known for the 1972 blockbuster The Poseidon Adventure, died on June 16 at a hospital…
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Agnieszka Holland Movies: Controversial Polish Filmmaker Retrospective at MoMA with screening of Best Actress Oscar nominee Sally Kirkland in Anna.
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Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter. Friday, Aug. 22, highlights on Turner Classic Movies (TCM): I’m not all that familiar with Trevor Howard’s career as a star. I’ve…
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Screenwriter-director Philip Kaufman’s 1983 Best Picture Oscar nominee, The Right Stuff, will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series.…
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A Passage to India with Judy Davis. Synopsis: In the early 20th century, Miss Quested (Judy Davis) and her soon-to-be mother-in-law, Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft, right), arrive in India, where…
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What are the best British films of all time? Starring Michael Caine, Mike Hodges’ violent thriller Get Carter is critics’ surprise #1 choice, while women-focused titles are completely absent.
Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence in David Lean’s ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ Peter O’Toole: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ actor & eight-time Oscar nominee Stage, film, and television actor Peter O’Toole, an eight-time…
Ralph Fiennes in Oscar nominee (but not DGA nominee) Stephen Daldry’s The Reader. In 1948, the 12-year-old Directors Guild of America (DGA), then known as the Screen Directors Guild (SDG),…
Marion Davies in King Vidor’s Show People. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which decades ago was the most financially stable of the Hollywood studios, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. MGM – initially…
Maurice Jarre, best known for his Oscar-winning association with David Lean in films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984), died at…
Doctor Zhivago theme: Lara & the Russian Revolution When bigger isn’t exactly better: Doctor Zhivago – despite its classic music theme – is no masterpiece. Bloated and overlong, it fails…