Jimmy Stewart. ‘Jimmy’ Stewart: Unlikely Hollywood star enjoyed decades-long career in a variety of genres The personification of all-American aw-shucksiness – of the sort you find only in bad movies…
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Constance Cummings: Actress went from minor, long-eyelashed Hollywood leading lady in Harold Lloyd and Frank Capra movies to starring in West End plays by Eugene O’Neill, Noël Coward and William…
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Raymond Massey. Raymond Massey movies: From Lincoln to Boris Karloff Though hardly remembered today, the Toronto-born Raymond Massey was a top supporting player – and sometime lead – in both…
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Frank Capra’s first all-talkie, The Donovan Affair is now a silent once again. In-house actors were thus needed to voice Jack Holt, Agnes Ayres et al.
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Tom Laughlin in Billy Jack. Tom Laughlin: ‘Billy Jack’ actor-filmmaker who died last week helped to revolutionize film distribution patterns in North America Tom Laughlin, best known for the Billy…
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It’s a Wonderful Life sequel? Donna Reed and James Stewart star in Oscar-nominated 1946 Frank Capra classic. Paramount to drown ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sequel? What would the world be…
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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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Christmas movies on TCM: Black Christmas with Olivia Hussey. Considering the image above and the gory goings-on at its sorority house setting, perhaps “Red Christmas” would have been a more…
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Funny Girl movie: Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice and Omar Sharif in William Wyler’s 1968 blockbuster. A restored print of Funny Girl (1968), Barbra Streisand’s film debut, will reignite the Academy…
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Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt in George Cukor’s A Woman’s Face (1941). The first TCM Classic Film Festival has just come to a close, but Turner Classic Movies has already given…
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Cinecon overview: Film historian Joseph Yranski offers a brief look at an eclectic array of silents and talkies screened at this year’s festival of mostly rare movies.
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Prelude to War. War Documentaries: ‘Prelude to War’ Oscar statuette – the 1958 duplicate – is returned to the U.S. Army An Oscar statuette earned by Frank Capra’s 1942 documentary…
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Barbara Stanwyck in The Furies. “A Lady to Talk About: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck” is the title of the retrospective being presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive…
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Jane Wyatt: Star Trek, Father Knows Best, and Lost Horizon actress. Jane Wyatt: ‘Star Trek’ & ‘Father Knows Best’ + ‘Lost Horizon’ actress dead at 96 Actress Jane Wyatt, best…
Jean Arthur. Jean Arthur films on TCM includes three Frank Capra classics of the 1930s Five Jean Arthur films will be shown this evening, Monday, Jan. 5, on Turner Classic…
Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in It Happened One Night. Mostly a Paramount star, Claudette Colbert hasn’t been a frequent presence on Turner Classic Movies – that is, apart from…
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Feel-good political corruption comedy-drama stars Jean Arthur and James Stewart. A newly restored print of Frank Capra’s 1939 Best Picture nominee Mr. Smith Goes to…
Jean Arthur was Columbia’s top star of the 1930s and early 1940s. Jean Arthur starred in numerous classics, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and You Can’t Take It with You. Jean Arthur died in 1991.