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.…
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Robert Taylor is April 2010’s Star of the Month on Turner Classic Movies. The Robert Taylor Tuesday evening has already begun: Camille (1937), in which he co-stars with Greta Garbo,…
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Corin Redgrave, member of the British acting dynasty, fell ill on Easter Sunday and died on April 6 at St. George’s Hospital in London. He was 70. Redgrave had been…
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Penélope Cruz, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn: 3 surviving Oscar winners will present plus Academy Awards’ Less Glamorous Side.
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Beefcake and Homoeroticism + Cult Camp Classic Can’t Stop the Music with Valerie Perrine and Bruce Jenner + Haunted House sexual repression with lesbianism.
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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…
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Denise Darcel. Cinecon 45 is currently taking place at the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. The (old & mostly rare) film marathon ends late Monday afternoon. Thus far, the 2009…
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Gene Hackman in Bonnie and Clyde with Warren Beatty. Gene Hackman has his “Summer Under the Stars” day is Friday, Aug. 21. Turner Classic Movies will present 11 films featuring or…
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Actress Miriam Hopkins: Early image courtesy of Allan Ellenberger. Miriam Hopkins, one of the most underrated performers of the studio era, will have her “Summer Under the Stars” day on…
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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…
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Love Affair 1939 with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. Love Affair, one of the 1939 Best Picture nominees, is next in line in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
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If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may be wondering why the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre will devote the evening of Feb. 26 to screen two movies as…
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Marni Nixon: Making Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood, and Audrey Hepburn sound more melodious. Marni Nixon, the voice behind, among others, Deborah Kerr in The King and I and An Affair…
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James Whitmore, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy- and Tony-winning actor whose career spanned six decades, died of lung cancer at his Malibu home yesterday, Feb. 6., ’09. He was 87. Though…
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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…
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A few weeks ago, when I began watching a screener of director-screenwriter-etc-etc. Brian Pera’s The Way I See Things, I had no idea what to expect. At first, I wasn’t…
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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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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,…
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Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie, with Jack Lemmon. Saturday, June 14, highlights on Turner Classic Movies include The Third Man and several Walter Matthau movies: Many consider The Third…
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Julie Andrews: Biography signing. Julie Andrews autobiography: Book signing in Westwood Last night, I went to the Borders bookstore in Westwood to see if I could catch a glimpse of…
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Matte Painting artwork + Robert Mitchum Interviews with Roger Ebert in which The Night of the Hunter actor disses Steve McQueen and Robert Wise.
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Between Oct. 25–28, Aberystwyth’s National Library of Wales and the Aberystwyth Arts Centre will host the newly created film festival Fflics – Wales Screen Classics. Fflics will screen about 30…
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Joan Crawford. Some have called her the greatest movie star ever, but even if that’s a sort of exaggeration – how does one measure stardom-ness? – Joan Crawford most likely…
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Hedy Lamarr. Author Patrick Agan, among whose books are Clint Eastwood: The Man Behind the Myth and The Decline and Fall of the Love Goddesses, has been working on a…
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Otto Preminger film noir Laura with Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” will be hosted by filmmaker…
Jean Simmons. Jean Simmons, the beautiful actress who was nominated for Oscars for her work in Hamlet (1948) and The Happy Ending (1969), died on Jan. 22 at her home…
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…
Audrey Hepburn movies all day on Tuesday, Aug. 11, on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Hepburn is the day’s “Summer Under the Stars” movie star. (See Audrey Hepburn Movie Schedule further…
https://youtu.be/ojo3I59Gn6cVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: CARMEN MIRANDA – O QUE É QUE A BAIANA TEM (https://youtu.be/ojo3I59Gn6c) Carmen Miranda – known as the “Brazilian Bombshell” in the U.S.;…
Friday, Aug. 29, on Turner Classic Movies: Marlon Brando. Some find Brando the greatest film actor ever. One assumes those people have never watched a movie with Edward G. Robinson, Pierre…
James Stewart in Vertigo with Kim Novak. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ upcoming centennial tribute to James Stewart will feature film clips and onstage conversations with Stewarts’ friends…
Henry King: Film director mostly associated with 20th Century Fox. Henry King director: San Sebastian Film Festival retrospective Henry King is best remembered for the movies he directed at Fox,…