Merle Oberon: Glamour Actress with mysterious past dons men’s clothes and fights Nazis, but her private life more dramatic than her films.
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Oscar Winners: Meryl Streep Breaks Two Academy Award Records, Neil Patrick Harris in his underwear and politically controversial documentary winner.
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Drew Barrymore sister Jessica Barrymore. Drew Barrymore half-sister Jessica Barrymore found dead near San Diego Drew Barrymore’s half-sister Jessica Barrymore was found dead in her car early Tuesday, July 29,…
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Jeanne Crain in The Fan with Madeleine Carroll. Jeanne Crain: Lighthearted movies vs. real life tragedies (See previous post: “Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.”) Unlike her characters…
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Alfred Hitchcock silent films’ Unesco honor: Ivor Novello in The Lodger. Alfred Hitchcock silent films added to Unesco UK Memory of the World Register The nine Alfred Hitchcock silent films…
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John Kerr. John Kerr: ‘Tea and Sympathy’ gay teen on stage and screen has died John Kerr, best known for playing the sensitive (and suspected to be gay) adolescent opposite…
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Lionel Barrymore movies: Rare Night Flight. Lionel Barrymore movies on TCM. (Image: Lionel Barrymore [right] You Can’t Take It with You, with Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, and James Stewart.) Lionel…
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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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Bette Davis: Actress in The Old Maid with off-screen “rival” Miriam Hopkins. Bette Davis, Warner Bros.’ top female box office attraction from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s, is Turner…
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The Wild One with Mary Murphy and Marlon Brando. Mary Murphy, best remembered as motorcycle gang leader Marlon Brando’s small-town love interest in The Wild One, died of heart disease…
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Ava Gardner with Burt Lancaster in Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir The Killers. Ava Gardner is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of November. The Gardner film series begins…
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Kathryn Grayson in Kiss Me Kate, with Howard Keel. Kathryn Grayson, who died at the age of 88 last February, is Turner Classic Movies’ Tuesday, Aug. 10, star. Kathryn Grayson…
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Believe it or not, there’s much more to stage and screen legend Ethel Barrymore than the fact that she was Drew Barrymore’s great-aunt. In fact, Ethel Barrymore was the grand-dame…
Jeanne Crain. Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ to ‘Margie’ Jeanne Crain, one of the most charming Hollywood actresses of the 1940s and 1950s, is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars”…
Male impersonator Kitty Doner: Vaudeville Theatre History. Vaudeville theatre history: ‘The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville’ Vaudeville history in Anthony Slide’s The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Vaudeville is now extinct – at least…
Best Actress Oscar nominee Jeanne Crain absurdly miscast as part-black woman.