‘Making Love’: Groundbreaking romantic gay drama returns to the big screen As part of its Anniversary Classics series, Laemmle Theaters will be presenting Arthur Hiller’s groundbreaking 1982 romantic drama Making …
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31 Days of Oscar: Ben-Hur Proves That Bigger not Necessarily Better plus grandiose David Lean while Spencer Tracy nearly ruins British drama.
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Cary Grant Movies: An Affair to Remember Blacklisted Screenwriter Receives No Credit as Real Life ugliness part of romantic screen fantasy.
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Vivien Leigh Biography Among Centenary Celebrations
4 minutes readVivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson in That Hamilton Woman (1941). Vivien Leigh biography, movies + photo exhibit among centenary celebrations [See previous post: “Vivien …
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Nora Ephron movies: Heartburn 1986: Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson as fictionalized versions of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein. Nora Ephron & Carl Bernstein: ‘Heartburn’ movie Besides her essays, screenplays, and …
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Deborah Kerr: Sexual Outlaw
12 minutes readDeborah 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 …
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Joyce Redman: Two-Time Oscar Nominee + ‘Sexting’ Pioneer
3 minutes readJoyce Redman, Academy Award nominated for both Tom Jones and Othello, died in Kent, England, earlier today. The Newcastle-born Redman, who was either 93 or 96, had been suffering from …
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Elia Kazan: Oscar Actors Director
4 minutes readDorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Gentleman’s Agreement Elia Kazan: Actors Director Elia Kazan is best remembered today for two things: his association with Marlon Brando during the first half of the …
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BAFTA Fellowship: Very few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood Axis despite sometimes more than 1 annual honoree in recent years.
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Leo McCarey Movies: Marx Brothers Comedy + Love Affair
6 minutes readBarry Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby and Gene Lockhart in Going My Way Leo McCarey is Turner Classic Movies’ Director of the Evening this Christmas. Considering that McCarey was an ardent Catholic, …
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Lindsay Lohan naked Playboy images leaked online are huge hit in latest scandal involving Freaky Friday and The Parent Trap actress + tabloid favorite.
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AFI Lifetime Achievement Award: The Incredibly Shrinking Past + BFI Fellowship Recipients
9 minutes readGregory Peck, Brock Peters in Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird. This list of AFI Life Achievement Award winners was culled from Wikipedia. The number on the right represents the …
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Diane Cilento, a tall, voluptuous, sometimes brunette /sometimes blonde beauty best remembered for her Academy Award-nominated performance in the 1963 Oscar winner Tom Jones, died in Cairns, in the north …
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Turner Classic Movies’ look at Arabs in Hollywood movies continues this evening with six movies. Why exactly Gabriel Pascal’s film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) is …
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White Men Rule: Lawrence of Arabia + The Four Feathers
5 minutes readLawrence of Arabia with Peter O’Toole: One of the Top Ten Best British Films ever made as per Total Film’s 2004 critics poll, David Lean’s all-male biopic of British army …
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Jean Simmons Films: Great Expectations + Black Narcissus
3 minutes readJean 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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Royal romance movies: Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer discover sprightly love and excruciating heartbreak in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1927 silent classic The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. As a William & …
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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 …
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Elizabeth Taylor: More Than Divorces & Diamonds
3 minutes readElizabeth Taylor eyes: Actress’ trademark. I wonder if Elizabeth Taylor would have become a legend, still remembered more than 40 years after the release of her last major box office …
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Neva Patterson: An Affair to Remember Actress + V Miniseries Alien Collaborator Has Died
9 minutes readNeva Patterson An Affair to Remember actress who loses Cary Grant to Deborah Kerr and V Miniseries Alien Collaborator + Buddy Holly Mom dead at 90.
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Elizabeth Taylor movies: A Place in the Sun with Montgomery Clift. Elizabeth Taylor can be found in 11 movies to be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, Aug. 23, …
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Margaret O’Brien Movies: Meet Me in St. Louis + Big City
5 minutes readMargaret O’Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis, with Judy Garland. For Turner Classic Movies’ Margaret O’Brien Day on Sunday, Aug. 15, TCM will present the television premiere of Meet Me …
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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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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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George Bernard Shaw Movies: Pygmalion + Caesar and Cleopatra
2 minutes readPygmalion with Wendy Hiller, Leo Genn, Irene Browne, and Violet Vanbrugh: Co-directed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard (who also stars), MGM’s version of George Bernard Shaw’s play is considered …
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 …
Fred Zinnemann: Oscar Actors Director
Fred Zinnemann began his career during the studio era, but kept on going, however sporadically, long after most of his contemporaries had retired. Even so, today his name means little …
Don Sharp: Psychomania + The Kiss of the Vampire Director
According to various online sources, Tasmanian-born director Don Sharp has died at age 89. A former small-time actor (The Planter’s Wife, The Cruel Sea), Sharp (born April 19, 1922, in …
Montgomery Clift Movies: ‘A Place in the Sun,’ ‘The Heiress’
Montgomery Clift could have become a much bigger star had he turned down fewer roles in major classics (Sunset Blvd., reportedly Shane, East of Eden) and accepted fewer roles in …
Dean Martin Movies: Some Came Running + Ocean’s Eleven
Dean Martin would have turned 94 years old on Tuesday, June 7. Generally a somnolent presence in low-brow comedies co-starring either Jerry Lewis or Frank Sinatra, Martin was at his …
Great singing in the clip above, huh? Well, that’s probably why Audrey Hepburn didn’t get a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for My Fair Lady. (See previous “Biggest Oscar Snubs”: …
South Pacific movie: 1958 musical toplining Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, France Nuyen, and Juanita Hall was a major box office hit. Tonight at 7:30 p.m., a recently restored …