MGM musicals box office struggle: Howard Keel Hollywood woes included 2 prestigious star vehicles that *should* have succeeded. Could his career be saved?
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Jayne Meadows dead at 95: Minor Movie Actress Became Emmy-Nominated Television Celebrity and wife of TV personality Steve Allen.
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Polly Bergen movies: She was the ‘first woman U.S. president,’ a near-rape victim in Cape Fear and Doris Day’s rival in uneven film career.
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Honorary Oscar NON-winner Doris Day inexplicably snubbed by the Academy. Why? Other women include Danielle Darrieux, Liv Ullmann and Mia Farrow.
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Doris Day today: Former Warner Bros. and Universal star is 89. Doris Day, who turned 89 last April 3 (she was born in Cincinnati in 1924), was a special guest…
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Best Actress Academy Award nominee Doris Day (Pillow Talk, 1959), one of the world’s top box office draws of the 1950s and 1960s, has sent a letter thanking the nearly…
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Doris Day is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of April 2012. TCM’s Doris Day homage begins this evening with eight movies released at the start of Day’s career…
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Rebecca remake in the works? Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 original – based on a novel by Daphne Du Maurier – starred Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier. Hollywood has been running out…
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TCM Cruise: Oscar Winners Eva Marie Saint and Ernest Borgnine + Hitchcock Star Tippi Hedren plus Turner hosts Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz.
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Swedish lesbian film: Ruth Vega Fernandez and Liv Mjönes in With Every Heartbeat. AUDIENCE AWARDS Breakthrough Section (award accompanied by a $5,000 cash prize) WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT by Alexandra-Therese Keining…
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Handprints of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner at festive Chinese Theatre Ceremony but life-changing honeymoon widely ridiculed.
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Doris Day may have been – once again – absurdly bypassed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors, but at least she’ll be getting some…
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Carnage review mix is less than enthusiastic: Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz in Roman Polanski’s post-arrest comeback. Based on Yasmine Reza’s play God of Carnage, Roman…
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Kennedy Center Honors: Meryl Streep among recipients Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep (right), singer Barbara Cook, singer and songwriter Neil Diamond, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and saxophonist and composer Sonny…
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Rock Hudson. Gay actor Rock Hudson was not… It’s surprising that back in the mid-1980s some people were surprised to learn that Rock Hudson was gay, when the star of…
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Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde in Basil Dearden’s Victim. 30 Rock‘s Tracy Morgan is in the news today because of viciously anti-gay remarks he made while performing a comedy routine in…
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Worst Oscar Host Ever? Anne Hathaway and James Franco widely panned but what about Academy Awards produced by the flamboyant Allan Carr?
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Lauren Bacall and Mimi Rogers in Barbra Streisand’s The Mirror Has Two Faces. In her 2005 autobiography By Myself and Then Some, Lauren Bacall’s updated version of her 1978 bestseller…
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Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca. Bogart and Claude Rains were nominated for their performances in the Michael Curtiz-directed Best Picture Oscar winner. Bergman was nominated for Sam Wood’s…
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Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor’s Adam’s Rib. Home movies of scary folk such as Alfred Hitchcock and Richard Nixon (and of some non-scary celebrities and non-celebrities as well),…
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Lauren Bacall. Lauren Bacall, hardly a top box office attraction in the 1940s or 1950s, but a major “Old Hollywood” star today, will have her Turner Classic Movies “Summer Under…
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Katharine Hepburn movies: The Philadelphia Story, Woman of the Year landmarks in film career of 4-time Best Actress Oscar winner.
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Ann Blyth. Ann Blyth, who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the film noir Mildred Pierce (1945), is pictured above during a discussion following a screening of the…
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Olivia de Havilland. Olivia de Havilland is the subject of an interview published in the London Evening Standard about a week ago. The piece is a must-read. Discussed are de…
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. + Monty Woolley: Christmas cheer + horror Mix at Packard plus Mary Wickes and Woody Allen + Ingmar Bergman classics.
Doris Day in Calamity Jane: Gay or straight? In David Butler’s enjoyable musical Western, Day is equally intrigued by chorus girl Allyn McLerie and macho Westerner Howard Keel. She also…
Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima (1951). At the end of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso, small-town projectionist Philippe Noiret has died and the Nuovo…
Hal Kanter (see photo at Bette Davis tribute), creator of the groundbreaking TV series Julia, starring Diahann Carroll (photo) as a nurse, died at age 92 on Nov. 6 in…
Doris Day today, with Duffy. Doris Day, 87, and Duffy in a new photo to be used by Sony Music to promote Day’s upcoming record “My Heart,” the legendary actress-singer’s…
Meet Me in St. Louis with Margaret O’Brien, Judy Garland Hugh Martin, best known for co-composing with Ralph Blane “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” sung by Judy Garland in…
Funny Girl movie: Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice and Omar Sharif in William Wyler’s 1968 blockbuster. A restored print of Funny Girl (1968), Barbra Streisand’s film debut, will reignite the Academy…
Ann Sheridan: “The Oomph Girl” Ann Sheridan, the determined, humorous, sensual 1940s Warner Bros. star, is one of my favorite movie toughies. Sheridan was also a first-rate comedienne (I Was…
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