Hiroshima Bombing Anniversary: 6 Must-See Movies Dealing with the A-Bomb Terror from around the world including 2 post-WWII Hollywood films.
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Theodore Bikel Movies: The Oscar-nominated activist and The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof star was bypassed for the movie versions.
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Veterans Day Movies: Good, Bad and Worse from Patton to The Sullivans (whose story inspired Saving Private Ryan) and subversive Pride of the Marines.
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Judgment at Nuremberg and Joan Fontaine: Stanley Kramer’s Best Message Movie and only Alfred Hitchcock Acting Oscar Winner plus Winter Olympics.
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Paul Henreid. Paul Henreid: Actor was ‘dependable’ leading man to Hollywood actresses Paul Henreid, best known as the man who wins Ingrid Bergman’s body but not her heart in Casablanca,…
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Eleanor Parker Palm Springs resident: Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month. Eleanor Parker: Palm Springs resident turns 91 today Eleanor Parker turns 91 today. The three-time Oscar nominee (Caged,…
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Eleanor Parker movies. Eleanor Parker movies on TCM Palms Springs area resident Eleanor Parker, who turns 91 next June 26, was one of the best actresses of Hollywood’s studio era.…
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Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh, one of the greatest performers of the 20th century, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in September. That’s the good news. The bad news:…
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Two Marilyn Monroe movies for the price of, well, two – which quite possibly means $50 by the time they come out. One, to be called Blonde, will star King…
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Robert Taylor is April 2010’s Star of the Month on Turner Classic Movies. The Robert Taylor Tuesday evening has already begun: Camille (1937), in which he co-stars with Greta Garbo,…
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What better way to start the New Year than by remembering the long-ago past? No, not war and assorted catastrophes, but beauty and romance. The clip above features a montage…
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Louis Delluc Prize for Violent Prison Drama + Sugar Surprise at AFI Awards while James Cameron futuristic adventure is surprising Best Picture in New York.
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Christmas Cheer: Andy Hardy and rediscovering Sherlock Holmes actor who made his mark as sleuth in 5 films + Woody Allen and Katharine Hepburn.
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Ninotchka with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas (top). The Way We Were with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford (bottom). From the Romanovs’ last stand to Warren Beatty’s first solo directorial…
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Lollipop Guild member Jerry Maren, Judy Garland’s son Joey Luft Judy Garland’s son Joey Luft, Garland’s grandchildren Jesse and Vanessa Richards, Lollipop Guild member Jerry Maren, and Emerald City manicurist…
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Unlike Michael Jackson’s sudden death, Farrah Fawcett’s didn’t come as a surprise. For quite some time, Fawcett had been suffering from a rare form of cancer that had recently spread…
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William Holden in Picnic with Kim Novak. At Moving Images Source, Michael Atkinson discusses William Holden in “St. Bill of Illinois”: As per Atkinson, William Holden was “on the surface…
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Edmund Goulding directs a young Joan Crawford in the MGM melodrama Sally, Irene and Mary (1925) at the beginning of their, respectively, directorial and acting careers. Image: Matthew Kennedy Collection.…
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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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Author Norman Mailer, as well known for his books as for his convoluted private life, died early today of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.…
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Curtis Harrington, best known as the director of numerous stylized horror films, died on Sunday evening, May 6, at his Hollywood Hills home. Harrington had never fully recovered from a…
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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…
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Otto Preminger film noir Laura with Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” will be hosted by filmmaker…
Eleanor Parker. Eleanor Parker dead at 91: ‘The Sound of Music’ actress, three-time Best Actress Oscar nominee Eleanor Parker, one of the best and most beautiful actresses of the studio…
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…
Judy Garland in A Star Is Born In his blog, film reviewer Richard Roeper says the following: “When it comes to announcing the Oscar nominees, the Academy of Motion Pictures…
Classic Christmas Movies: Remember the Night Returns and Largely Forgotten Oscar Nominee + Maria Ouspenskaya and 3 matchmaking ghosts.
Revolutionary Road Movie: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet photos + Christopher Plummer autobiography and views on Marlon Brando + Robert Williams.
Douglas Kirkland’s Pictures: Brigitte Bardot and The Sound of Music actresses Charmian Carr and Angela Cartwright + check out Judy Garland miniature Oscar.
Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a…