Visions of the shattered American Dream in 2 ‘Arthur Miller movies’: The subversive family dramas All My Sons and Death of a Salesman.
Fredric March
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The Best Years of Our Lives 1946: Teresa Wright Career Highlight
12 minutes readTeresa Wright in ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’: Mammoth Blockbuster was Career Highlight as stardom slipped shortly afterwards.
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Myrna Loy biography: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood Myrna Loy: All-American wife and mother – and more Many believe that Myrna Loy is the best American actress never to …
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Carole Lombard Movies: My Man Godfrey + Nothing Sacred
7 minutes readCarole Lombard: Screwball comedienne and dramatic actress of the 1930s. Best remembered for her light comedies of the 1930s and early 1940s, Carole Lombard is Turner Classic Movies Star of …
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Fredric March Movies: Inherit the Wind + Seven Days in May
3 minutes readFredric March as a fictionalized William Jennings Bryan and Spencer Tracy as a fictionalized Clarence Darrow in Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind. Turner Classic Movies’ Fredric March tribute ends tonight …
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Fredric March Movies on TCM: Second Best Actor Oscar Win
3 minutes readFredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives. Fredric March Movies on TCM Fredric March, Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month, can be seen tonight at his best …
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“Summer Under the Stars” is over, but Kim Novak is the “star of tonight” on Turner Classic Movies. Five Novak vehicles released at the height of her stardom will be …
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The Oscars: The Nominations Show
3 minutes readJudy Garland in A Star Is Born In his blog, film reviewer Richard Roeper says the following: “When it comes to announcing the Oscar nominees, the Academy of Motion Pictures …
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Fredric March Movies
8 minutes readCarole Lombard, Fredric March in a Nothing Sacred publicity shot. Fredric March has his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Monday, Aug. 24. Turner Classic Movies will present 13 Fredric …
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Miriam Hopkins Biography: Q+A with Author Allan Ellenberger
27 minutes readMiriam Hopkins: Becky Sharp star. Remembering Miriam Hopkins Although relatively forgotten and, when remembered, usually dismissed as a second-rate talent (quite possibly by those who have never seen her on …
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Cinecon movies: Uncut version of the pre-Code WWI drama The Eagle and the Hawk and the gender-role-reversal silent The Home Maker.
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Joseph Hayes: The Desperate Hours Author + Screenwriter
2 minutes readNovelist and playwright Joseph Hayes, best known for his stage and film adaptations of his 1954 suspense novel The Desperate Hours, died this past Sept. 11 at a nursing home …
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Janet Gaynor: First Best Actress Oscar Winner Rembered
19 minutes readJanet Gaynor: First Best Actress Academy Award winner “Has anyone in Hollywood ever had a trajectory quite like the career and reputation of Janet Gaynor?” inquires Los Angeles Times film …
Joan Bennett Movies: From Pert Blonde to Sultry Brunette
Joan Bennett movies: Scarlet Street Joan Bennett is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Evening this Wednesday, May 11. TCM has already shown Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945), in which …
Vintage Best Picture Oscar Posters Exhibition
Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Dark Victory, Four Daughters, Citizen Kane, The More the Merrier, The Talk of the Town, A Star Is Born, Love Affair, Stagecoach, …
Rouben Mamoulian Interview
Allan R. Ellenberger Collection Author Allan Ellenberger has posted on his blog parts of a 1983 interview writer David Del Valle conducted with director Rouben Mamoulian. In the interview, Mamoulian …
Pre-Code Paramount Movies: Claudette Colbert + Mae West
Film Forum screenings: Claudette Colbert & Mae West + Gary Cooper Paramount Pre-Code classics “Paramount Before the Code,” consisting of more than 40 classics, semi-classics, and forgotten gems from Hollywood’s …