Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe joined forces on the problem-plagued The Misfits. See also: The playwright’s answer to Elia Kazan’s 1954 Oscar winner On the Waterfront.
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Playwright Arthur Miller vs. Red Scare paranoia: The Crucible and the Salem witch hunts demythologize the concept of ‘American exceptionalism.’
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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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Fourth of July movies: A few recommended titles that should help you temporarily escape current global madness Two thousand and seventeen has been a weirder-than-usual year on the already pretty…
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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…
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A Face in the Crowd (movie 1957) review: A hammy Andy Griffith and a didactic Budd Schulberg hinder Elia Kazan’s political drama with Patricia Neal and Anthony Franciosa.
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Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire. Marlon Brando movies on TCM Marlon Brando is the first star in the 2011 edition of Turner Classic Movies’ annual…
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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…
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Jean-Luc Godard. Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach (right), Kevin Brownlow, and Francis Ford Coppola have been chosen as the recipients of the 2010 special Academy Awards. Godard, Brownlow, and Wallach will…
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond: ‘Lost’ Tennessee Williams screenplay + Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Evans in interview with director Jodie Markell.
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Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie, with Jack Lemmon. Saturday, June 14, highlights on Turner Classic Movies include The Third Man and several Walter Matthau movies: Many consider The Third…
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Hollywood Rebels: James Dean ca. 1955. Hollywood Rebels’ movies on DVD: James Dean in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ & Steve McQueen in ‘Bullitt’ James Dean’s cult status was surely not…
Patricia Neal Movies: ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still,’ ‘A Face in the Crowd’ are two old classics that are more pertinent than ever.
Best Actress Oscar nominee Jeanne Crain absurdly miscast as part-black woman.
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…