Doris Day

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Worst Oscar Host Ever? Anne Hathaway and James Franco widely panned but what about Academy Awards produced by the flamboyant Allan Carr?

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…

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…

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),…

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…

Katharine Hepburn movies: ‘The Philadelphia Story’ & ‘Woman of the Year’ were Hollywood career turning points. Katharine Hepburn in ‘The Philadelphia Story,’ ‘Woman of the Year’: Movie career landmarks on…

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…

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…

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in The Prisoner of Zenda 1937. The son of silent screen superstar Douglas Fairbanks and a middle-league – and generally lackluster – leading man in the first…