Howard Keel MGM musicals: Texas Carnival publicity shot with Esther Williams. In his MGM musicals of the 1950s, Howard Keel was almost always paired with small, girl-like leading ladies –…
Jayne Meadows. Three-time Emmy nominee Jayne Meadows dead at 95 Jayne Meadows, best known for her show business partnership with husband and television personality Steve Allen, died at age 95…
Polly Bergen became the “first U.S. woman president” in the 1964 comedy Kisses for My President. Polly Bergen movies: ‘First woman U.S. president’ dead at 84 Emmy Award-winning actress Polly…
Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & long-running Honorary Oscar “snub.” Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & Danielle Darrieux among Honorary Oscar non-recipients (See previous post: “Honorary Oscars Bypass Women:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Michelle Williams: Golden Globes’ Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical winner. Best Actress winner Michelle Williams: Golden Globes Michelle Williams poses backstage after winning the Golden Globe…
TCM Cruise group photo (click on the image to enlarge it), from left to right: Bruce Goldstein, New York Film Forum; film critic Alonso Duralde; Harold Lloyd’s granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd;…
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…
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…
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner handprints: Chinese Theatre ceremony quite festival, but long-awaited tropical honeymoon considered a total dud. ‘Twilight’ actors Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner…