Douglas Sirk

Lana Turner: Scandals on- and off-screen. Lana Turner movies: Scandal and more scandal Lana Turner is Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Saturday, Aug. 10. I'm a little – or rather, a lot – late in the…

Fred MacMurray: The All-American jerk in movies such as Double Indemnity and The Apartment. Fred MacMurray movies: 'Double Indemnity' & There's Always Tomorrow' Fred MacMurray is Turner Classic Movies' 2013 “Summer Under the Stars” today, Thursday, Aug. 7. Although perhaps…

Douglas Sirk movies: 'Imitation of Life,' 'Written on the Wind' (image: Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, Karin Dicker in 'Imitation of Life') Douglas Sirk is Turner Classic Movies' Director of the Evening. The German-born (April 26, 1897, in Hamburg) filmmaker has…

La Habanera with Zarah Leander and Ferdinand Marian. First, I have to state that I watched Douglas Sirk's La Habanera, not knowing what to expect. All I knew was the brief synopsis on the DVD box. I also knew that…

Imitation of Life movie: Lana Turner, Karen Dicker, Juanita Moore, and Terry Burnham. Douglas Sirk's classic melodrama Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner, will have its 50th anniversary celebrated with a screening of a recently struck print at the Academy of…

William Castle and the Rosemary's Baby 'curse.' William Castle was a director of B movie thrillers such as those in two popular franchises of the 1940s starring faded stars of the previous decades: The Whistler, with Richard Dix (Best Actor…