Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Gentleman’s Agreement Elia Kazan: Actors Director Elia Kazan is best remembered today for two things: his association with Marlon Brando during the first half of the 1950s, and the fact that he claimed to be unrepentant…
Elia Kazan
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Patricia Neal and Andy Griffith, A Face in the Crowd Elia Kazan’s 1957 drama A Face in the Crowd, written by Kazan’s On the Waterfront collaborator Budd Schulberg, is neither the forgotten masterpiece its champions claim it to be nor…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Movies & Gina Lollobrigida + ‘Mare Nostrum’ & ‘Serious’ 1950s Hollywood Classics
by Andre SoaresTender Is the Night with Jennifer Jones. Henry King’s 1962 movie adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1934 novel – screenplay by Ivan Moffat – starred Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette, 1943) in what turned out…
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‘Pinky’ Movie with ‘Black’ Jeanne Crain + John Wayne in Guy de Maupassant Rip-Off: Curious Classics
by Andre SoaresPinky movie with a “black” Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters. Although absurdly miscast as a light-skinned part-white/part-black young woman whose grandmother is Ethel Waters, Jeanne Crain received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for Elia Kazan’s 1949 socially conscious drama…
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Lilli Palmer and Gary Cooper in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (top); Carroll Baker in Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll (bottom). The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (website) 20th Anniversary Tribute to The Film Foundation ends this weekend, with a…
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Ramon Novarro Is Scaramouche + María Félix Is ‘La Bandida’ & Marlon Brando Is Emiliano Zapata
by Andre SoaresAlice Terry, Ramon Novarro in Rex Ingram’s Scaramouche Ramon Novarro is back for the fourth and last installment of Turner Classic Movies’ Sunday evening celebration of the 100 years of the Mexican Revolution. Tonight, Novarro’s vehicle is Scaramouche (1923), one…
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‘The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond’ from ‘Lost’ Tennessee Williams Screenplay: Q&A with Director Jodie Markell
by Andre SoaresThe Loss of a Teardrop Diamond with Bryce Dallas Howard as Fisher Willow, a troubled heiress who becomes involved with the handsome but impoverished – and equally unstable – Jimmy Dobyne (Chris Evans). Their dysfunctional relationship is depicted in Jodie…
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Karl Malden, Tyrone Power in Diplomatic Courier (1952) Karl Malden, who won a best supporting actor Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951, died “of natural causes” at his Brentwood home earlier today. He was 97. In addition to…
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Saturday, June 14, highlights on Turner Classic Movies include The Third Man and a series of Walter Matthau movies: Many consider The Third Man (left) Carol Reed’s best film. Some even claim it’s so good that Reed couldn’t have directed…