‘Ben-Hur’ 1959 with Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston: TCM’s ’31 Days of Oscar.’ ’31 Days of Oscar’: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Ben-Hur’ in, Paramount stars out Today, Feb. 1, Turner Classic Movies is kicking off the 21st edition of its…
Deborah Kerr
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Cary Grant movies: The new and improved Archibald Leach. Cary Grant movies: ‘An Affair to Remember’ does sentimental justice to its title Cary Grant excelled at playing Cary Grant. This evening, Dec. 8, ’14, fans of the charming, sophisticated, debonair…
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John Kerr. John Kerr: ‘Tea and Sympathy’ gay teen on stage and screen has died John Kerr, best known for playing the sensitive (and suspected to be gay) adolescent opposite Deborah Kerr in Tea and Sympathy both on Broadway and…
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Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, From Here to Eternity. With Deborah Kerr, it’s not the bare shoulders that matter. It’s the eyes. Deborah Kerr, who died at the age of 86 on Oct. 16, 2007, has usually been labeled the cinematic…
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White Men Rule: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ & ‘The Four Feathers’ + Deborah Kerr & Michael Powell + Clara Bow Politician Son Dies
by Andre S.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: Arab Images on Film” continues this evening with four movies…
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Lost movie: Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh. Oscar Winner Emil Jannings & Theda Bara + Lon Chaney & Clara Bow in Color: ‘Fragments’ on TCM The final reel of John Ford’s The Village Blacksmith (1922), featuring Virginia…
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Gail Russell & John Wayne + Risqué Cecil B. DeMille Classic + Jean Renoir South Asian Drama: Movies to Watch
by Andre S.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 Frank Sinatra are a few of the movie personalities to…
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Hatter’s Castle with James Mason and Deborah Kerr. A 1942 adaptation of A.J. Cronin’s first novel, Hatter’s Castle, strips away multiple characters and subplots, thus streamlining the film into melodrama. The material, however, is still ripe for social commentary: James…
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From Here to Eternity movie: Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster make love (top); Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra do a little (sorta) lovemaking of their own later on in the film (bottom). Fred Zinnemann’s 1953 Academy Award-winning drama From Here to…
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Deborah Kerr day Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series will feature two TCM premieres: The Day Will Dawn / The Avengers, a British-made 1942 spy drama, and Leo McCarey’s An Affair to Remember (1957), one of Kerr’s best-known…
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Kathleen Byron, best-remembered as the sex-obsessed nun in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus, died on Jan. 18. She was 88 (or 86, depending on the source) and is supposed to have been in poor health for several years.…