Dan O’Herlihy: A one-of-a-kind Best Actor Oscar nominee during Hollywood’s studio era (for Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 1954), Irish-born performer Dan O’Herlihy enjoyed a film and television career spanning half…
Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie. Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland ends on a sentimental note: Barrie (Johnny Depp) reminds the orphaned Peter (Freddie Highmore) that the power of imagination can be…
Maximilian Schell. Maximilian Schell: Best Actor Oscar winner for ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ has died Actor and filmmaker Maximilian Schell, best known for his Oscar-winning performance as the defense attorney in…
Sara Montiel Sara Montiel: Legendary Spanish movie and recording superstar Sara Montiel, a.k.a. Sarita Montiel a.k.a. Saritisima, one of the Spanish-speaking world’s biggest film and recording stars, died yesterday, April…
Luise Rainer: Oldest living Oscar winner. Luise Rainer: Oldest Living Oscar winner turns 103 today Luise Rainer, the recipient of two back-to-back Best Actress Oscars in the mid-1930s, is the…
Ann Blyth. Ann Blyth, who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the film noir Mildred Pierce (1945), is pictured above during a discussion following a screening of the…
Max Schreck in Nosferatu 1922. Max Schreck: Nosferatu 1922 ‘batman’ biography to come out in Germany The first biography of Max Schreck, best known as the “batman” a.k.a. vampire in…
Being Julia movie review: “All About Eve in a London setting” wouldn’t be an inapt summation of István Szabó’s comedy about a 1930s stage diva who becomes attached to a…