Gunga Din (movie 1939): George Stevens’ adventure pays homage to British colonialism while revamping The Front Page. Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. star.
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Citizen Kane and Song of the South actress Ruth Warrick became All My Children snob Phoebe Tyler and a Confederate flag critic.
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Ronald Colman: Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in two major 1930s classics Updated: Turner Classic Movies’ July 2017 Star of the Month is Ronald Colman, one of the…
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Frances Dee movies: From ‘An American Tragedy’ to ‘Four Faces West’ Frances Dee began her film career at the dawn of the sound era, going from extra to leading lady…
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Lupita Tovar in Santa: Mexican actress is best remembered for her appearance in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Dracula. Lupita Tovar turns 103: Actress starred in Spanish-language ‘Dracula’ & in…
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Little Caesar (movie 1931) review: Edward G. Robinson is an iconic all-American gangster in Mervyn LeRoy’s landmark but creaky crime drama. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. costars.
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Barbara Kent, a minor leading lady during the transition from silent to sound movies, died Oct. 13 in Palm Desert, in Southern California. A resident of the local Marrakesh Country…
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The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 at Academy: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Centennial and career peak in David O. Selznick classic with Ronald Colman + Madeleine Carroll.
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. + Monty Woolley: Christmas cheer + horror Mix at Packard plus Mary Wickes and Woody Allen + Ingmar Bergman classics.
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Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Virginia Grey in Whistling in the Dark. Photo: Courtesy Turner Classic Movies. Red Skelton’s “Summer Under the Stars” day is Wednesday, Aug. 19. Turner Classic Movies…
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Jack Palance in Shane. Philip French in The Guardian: “From the start, the movies welcomed into their midst the mustachioed villain of Victorian melodrama, leaving subtler antagonists to literary fiction…
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The Barker with Dorothy Mackaill and Milton Sills. Directed by George Fitzmaurice, by then already a film veteran, The Barker is one of those strange hybrids made at the dawn…
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Four news DVDs focus on Oscar-winning director George Stevens: A tribute to British colonialism; an immigration family drama; and two documentaries, one of which features rare WWII color footage.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movies: From Toyboy to Drug Smuggler in pre-Production Code movies such as Parachute Jumper and Little Caesar.
Ann Dvorak and Rudy Vallee in Sweet Music. See previous post: Ann Dvorak: Hollywood Rebel. Ann Dvorak’s best-remembered film is probably the 1932 Scarface, starring Paul Muni, directed by Howard…
Reginald Sheffield (cast as Rudyard Kipling in the film), George Stevens on the set of Gunga Din. Academy revisits George Stevens’ 1939 classic Gunga Din George Stevens’ proudly “politically incorrect”…