Jane Powell. Jane Powell movies: MGM actress in musicals of the 1940s & 1950s Jane Powell, the youthful star of a series of lighthearted Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer color comedy-musicals of the 1940s…
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Turner Classic Movies continues with its Gay Hollywood presentations tonight and tomorrow morning, June 8–9. Seven movies will be shown about, featuring, directed, or produced by the following: Cole Porter,…
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Ann Blyth today on TCM Ann Blyth today: Light songs and heavy drama on TCM Ann Blyth, a 1940s Universal leading lady best remembered for her Oscar-nominated performance as Joan…
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TCM Remembers: From Hitchcock leading man Farley Granger and European stars Annie Girardot and Googie Withers to 2 notorious sex film actresses.
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Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller: I Confess with Montgomery Clift. Alfred Hitchcock is the focus of tonight’s programming on Turner Classic Movies, which will be showing five of the director’s films: Stage…
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Playwright-screenwriter Arthur Laurents died in his sleep on May 5 in New York City. He was 93. Best known for writing the book for the Broadway smashes West Side Story…
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Farley Granger: Gay actor played early gay movie character in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope. Farley Granger, best known for the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951),…
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Shelley Winters and Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun Shelley Winters, winner of two Best Supporting Actress Academy Awards, died of heart failure at the Rehabilitation Centre of…
The daughter of silent film actress Anna Lehr and director Edward McKim, Ann Dvorak began her film career at the dawn of the sound era. The pretty, wide-eyed Dvorak was…
Senso with Alida Valli and Farley Granger. Critical consensus regards Luchino Visconti’s Senso as a radical departure, a sign of the director’s shift in focus from the gritty world of downtrodden…