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 “31 Days of Oscar.” While…
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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, fans of the charming, sophisticated, debonair actor – not to be confused…
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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 in Hollywood, died of heart…
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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 in October 2007, has usually been labeled the cinematic embodiment of the English Rose: ladylike…
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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: Arab Images on Film” continues this evening with four movies about European powers and their…
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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 Frank Sinatra are a few of the movie personalities to be found in the May…
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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 Brodie (Robert Newton) is a…
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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 Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery…
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Yul Brynner has his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Wednesday, Aug. 26. Inevitably, The King and I (1956), the movie that earned Brynner an Academy Award and turned him into a major international star, is included in Turner Classic Movies’ Yul Brynner Day line-up.…
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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 films. I haven’t seen The…
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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. Born in London (either on…
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Ava Gardner movies: With Clark Gable and Broderick Crawford in Lone Star. Ava Gardner movies on Thursday, Aug. 21: Highlights on Turner Classic Movies. Sexy or sensual? In all honesty, I don’t know if there’s a difference between the two, but in case there is…