Independence Day movies: Exuberant all-white all-Iowan marching band + lovely and talented Joan Leslie + racist British imperialism salute.
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The movies’ top 5 Scariest Living Dead: Sex plus greed among ghosts, ghouls and vampires from Max Schreck to NOT Robert Pattinson.
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Scream Queens: Top Ten List features major surprises from soundless shrieks to kinky sex obsessions and spookiest, most piercing cry ever.
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Gary Cooper Movies: Playing Lover-Daddy to Joan Leslie, Audrey Hepburn in two of the weakest (but successful) films of his career.
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Glenda Farrell. Glenda Farrell: Actress has her ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day Scene-stealer Glenda Farrell is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star on Aug. 29. A reliable –…
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Wallace Beery in Min and Bill, with Marie Dressler. Wallace Beery movies: TCM offers a glimpse into actor’s extensive filmography According to the IMDb, the Wallace Beery Filmography features nearly…
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Ray Harryhausen: Visual effects titan. Ray Harryhausen: ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ & ‘One Million Years B.C.’ visual-effects artist has died Long before the computer-generated imagery of Jurassic Park, Avatar, The…
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Hypnosis and crime: Michael Redgrave and Joan Bennett in Secret Beyond the Door. April 4 update: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation you’ll be able to catch…
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Cinecon attractions include a squeaky-voiceless (silent) and brunette Jean Arthur in The Poor Nut and a young Alice Faye in one of her earliest musicals.
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King Kong 2005. The biggest disappointment about Peter Jackson’s King Kong is that, despite all the p.r. regarding Jackson’s fascination with the Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack 1933…
Scariest Movies Ever Made: Chicago Critics’ Top 100. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, tops the list but a number of strange and spooky omissions.
Fay Wray. Fay Wray movies Actress Fay Wray, best remembered for playing the love interest in the 1933 interspecies romance classic King Kong, would have turned 105 on Sep. 15.…
Joel McCrea. Joel McCrea movies: LACMA’s ‘Centenary Tribute’ to Old Hollywood star Joel McCrea, the star of numerous light comedies, melodramas, and Westerns from the early the 1930s to the…