Arthur Askey: For decades, the British comedian was a vaudeville, radio, and television celebrity in his home country. Never an international name, Askey was also featured in a handful of…
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John Paul Jones with Robert Stack: 4th of July movies. Although every sign indicates that 2019 is the new 1984, those in the U.S. shouldn’t fret: TCM’s 4th of July…
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West End stage actress Constance Cummings also appeared on Broadway and in Hollywood and British movies. West End theater star: Constance Cummings in ‘Saint Joan,’ Shakespeare (See previous post: “Constance…
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Dickie Moore: Child actor was an Our Gang member. Former child actor Dickie Moore dead at 89: Film career ranged from ‘Our Gang’ shorts to features opposite Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper…
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Wendy Hughes in Newsfront. Wendy Hughes: ‘Careful, He Might Hear You’ actress dead at 61 Australian film, television, and stage actress Wendy Hughes, best known internationally for the big-screen dramas…
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Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh: Legendary ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ star would have turned 100 today Vivien Leigh was perhaps the greatest film star that hardly…
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Risë Stevens: Opera star in Carmen. Risë Stevens: Metropolitan Opera star & former Bing Crosby girlfriend in ‘Going My Way’ dead at 99 Risë Stevens, the Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano best remembered by…
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Turner Classic Movies’ look at Arabs in Hollywood movies continues this evening with six movies. Why exactly Gabriel Pascal’s film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) is…
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Jean Simmons in Hamlet with Laurence Olivier. Star of the Month Jean Simmons is back on Turner Classic Movies this Tuesday evening, with five more films. Like last week, these…
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Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates in Silvio Narizzano’s Georgy Girl Lynn Redgrave died Sunday, May 2, ’10, at her home in Connecticut. She had been fighting breast cancer for seven years.…
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Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller Pygmalion. George Bernard Shaw is tonight’s star on Turner Classic Movies. Major Barbara (1941), directed by Gabriel Pascal, and starring Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller,…
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Anthony Steffen biography cover (top); Anthony Steffen in The Last Tomahawk with Daniel Martin. Anthony Steffen may be a name best remembered by Spaghetti Western aficionados, but in his day, from the…
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Ricardo Montalban, who co-starred in several 1940s MGM musicals and later played the mysterious host in the long-running 1970s TV series Fantasy Island, died this morning at his Los Angeles…
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Margaretta Scott. Margaretta Scott: Things to Come & All Creatures Great and Small actress remembered Margaretta Scott, best remembered for playing the eccentric widow Mrs. Pumphrey in the BBC television…