Actress Sandra Dee is seen as a sweet-looking but gutsy rule-breaker in the 1959 blockbusters A Summer Place and Imitation of Life.
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Submarine movie evening: Underwater war waged in TCM’s Memorial Day films In the U.S., Turner Classic Movies has gone all red, white, and blue this 2017 Memorial Day weekend, presenting…
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Maureen O’Hara Movies: TCM Tribute to Queen of Technicolor featured opposite John Wayne in 5 movies including the John Ford classic The Quiet Man.
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Gary Cooper Movies: Playing Lover-Daddy to Joan Leslie, Audrey Hepburn in two of the weakest (but successful) films of his career.
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Claudette Colbert and Maurice Chevalier in The Smiling Lieutenant. Claudette Colbert movies: From ‘The Smiling Lieutenant’ to ‘Skylark’ Claudette Colbert, the studio era’s perky, independent-minded – and French-born – “all-American”…
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Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall Dead: 89-year-old Oscar nominee who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in ‘To Have and Have Not’ and ‘The Big Sleep’ Lauren Bacall has died following a massive…
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Eleanor Parker. Eleanor Parker dead at 91: ‘The Sound of Music’ actress, three-time Best Actress Oscar nominee Eleanor Parker, one of the best and most beautiful actresses of the studio…
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Ernest Borgnine dead at 95: villain at his best in befuddled roles Ernest Borgnine, a movie villain who won a Best Actor Academy Award for playing a kindly butcher in…
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John Garfield, Joan Crawford, Humoresque John Garfield is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star on Friday, Aug. 5, ’11. TCM will be presenting twelve John Garfield movies, in…
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Stairway to Heaven & Orpheus: 2 radically different fantasies focus on that mysterious space in between what’s called A Matter of Life and Death.
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James MacArthur, best remembered for playing blue-eyed Detective Danno Williams in the original version of Hawaii Five-0 and for being the adopted son of Broadway and Hollywood star Helen Hayes…
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Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in Gilda Glenn Ford will have his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Friday, Aug. 7. The Turner Classic Movies Glenn Ford marathon will…
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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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Jane Wyatt: Star Trek, Father Knows Best, and Lost Horizon actress. Jane Wyatt: ‘Star Trek’ & ‘Father Knows Best’ + ‘Lost Horizon’ actress dead at 96 Actress Jane Wyatt, best…
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Maria Schell. Maria Schell remembered: Gervaise + The Hanging Tree + Superman actress Maria Schell, who starred in Gervaise, The Last Bridge, and other film classics of the 1950s, had…
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Early 1960s Top 10 box office star Sandra Dee personified American cinema’s idealized adolescence + young womanhood - but with an undercurrent of disaffection.
Veterans Day Movies: Good, Bad and Worse from Patton to The Sullivans (whose story inspired Saving Private Ryan) and subversive Pride of the Marines.
Marta Heflin in A Perfect Couple. Broadway actress Marta Heflin dead at 68: Featured in several Robert Altman movies Stage actress Marta Heflin, who was featured in a handful of…
Neva Patterson An Affair to Remember actress who loses Cary Grant to Deborah Kerr and V Miniseries Alien Collaborator + Buddy Holly Mom dead at 90.
Car racing movie? Not exactly, but Dorothy Malone respects no speed limits in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind. May 8 highlights on Turner Classic Movies: John Frankenheimer’s car racing epic,…