Visions of the shattered American Dream in 2 ‘Arthur Miller movies’: The subversive family dramas All My Sons and Death of a Salesman.
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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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Trumbo (movie 2015) review: Bryan Cranston delivers a phenomenal performance as the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movies: From Toyboy to Drug Smuggler in pre-Production Code movies such as Parachute Jumper and Little Caesar.
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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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Joan Bennett movies: Scarlet Street Joan Bennett is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Evening this Wednesday, May 11. TCM has already shown Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945), in which…
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Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar. Turner Classic Movies’ Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood continues this evening with “Brother, Can You Spare a Dream?” which takes us…
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Double Indemnity poster. Regarding Barbara Stanwyck, Jacques Tourneur – who directed 11 episodes of the short-lived The Barbara Stanwyck Show – would later recall “that Barbara is one hell of…
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Vilma Banky. Edward G. Robinson was only 37 years old when he gave this hammy, scene-stealing, over-the-top performance as Tony, a middle-aged Italian grape grower in Napa Valley, California, in…
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Fred MacMurray walks by Raymond Chandler (?) in Double Indemnity (top); Raymond Chandler lights his pipe (bottom) In a June 5 piece for The Guardian, Film London Chief Executive Adrian…
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Charlton Heston movies: Ben-Hur 1959. It’s Charlton Heston Movies Day on Thursday, Aug. 28, on Turner Classic Movies. Charlton Heston was a graduate cum laude of the Paul Muni School…
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Edward G. Robinson. One of the greatest film actors of all time: Edward G. Robinson can be appreciated on Wednesday, Aug. 20, on Turner Classic Movies. Like Barbara Stanwyck, TCM’s…
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Ann Sheridan. If someone asked me to name a truly tough film star, I’d never think of naming John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood, Humphrey Bogart, or any…
Charlton Heston. Charlton Heston: Moses has his ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day In 1985, Barbara Stanwyck told People magazine, “Whenever I get into trouble on the set [of The Colbys],…
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…
Miriam Hopkins: Becky Sharp star. Remembering Miriam Hopkins Although relatively forgotten and, when remembered, usually dismissed as a second-rate talent (quite possibly by those who have never seen her on…