Legendary Broadway actor John Barrymore also enjoyed an impressive and enduring – yet vastly undervalued – movie career in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Updated: Following a couple of Julie London Westerns*, Turner Classic Movies will return to its July 2017 Star of the Month presentations. This evening, July 27, Ronald Colman can be…
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Considering everything that’s been happening on the planet in the last several months, you’d have thought we’re already in November or December – of 2117. But no. It’s only June.…
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I Want to Live Screenwriter Don Mankiewicz Dead: Father Was Citizen Kane screenwriter while filmmaking uncle was multiple Oscar winner.
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Mary Boland Mary Boland movies: Scene-stealing actress has her ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day Turner Classic Movies will dedicate the next 24 hours, Sunday, Aug. 4, not to Lana Turner,…
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Constance Bennett movies on TCM: What Price Hollywood? Constance Bennett is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of November. TCM will be presenting six Constance Bennett movies tonight, including…
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A Bill of Divorcement with Katharine Hepburn and David Manners: 1932 George Cukor drama. George Cukor ‘gay Woman’s Director’? Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his…
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Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata. Ingrid Bergman’s best on-screen performance, as Liv Ullmann’s painfully self-centered mother in Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata, can be appreciated on Friday, Aug. 6 – Ingrid…
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Believe it or not, there’s much more to stage and screen legend Ethel Barrymore than the fact that she was Drew Barrymore’s great-aunt. In fact, Ethel Barrymore was the grand-dame…
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Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor’s Adam’s Rib Raquel Welch is the guest programmer tonight on Turner Classic Movies. Welch and Robert Osborne will be introducing and…
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Marilyn Monroe Smokes Pot in home movie? Some like It weedy as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes actress seen puffing away in film now for sale.
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Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Audrey Hepburn movies at LACMA “Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever” is the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) film series that…
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My Fair Lady (1964) and The Great Race (1965), two of the biggest box office hits of the 1960s, will be screened at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
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Gene Kelly in Les Girls with Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg. Gene Kelly and Jack Palance: Sunday-Monday, Aug. 17–18, highlights on Turner Classic Movies. Gene Kelly and Jack…
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The Art Directors Guild (website) Film Society will be screening George Cukor’s extravagant 1960 Western Heller in Pink Tights, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn, in tribute to production designer…
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Gaslighting Abuse 21st-Century Style: George Cukor Classic thriller with Charles Boyer + Ingrid Bergman (already a remake of British film) is being remade.
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Gavin Lambert: ‘Inside Daisy Clover’ novelist & Natalie Wood + Norma Shearer + George Cukor biographer has died Novelist, biographer, film critic, and screenwriter Gavin Lambert died on July 17…
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Joan Crawford young and entrepreneurial in Mildred Pierce. Joan Crawford young & middle-aged on DVD Joan Crawford, unfairly misremembered as a maternal ogress with a wire-hanger fixation, was actually one…
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Diane English has penned and will direct The Women remake, as the 1939 all-female classic comedy is finally getting a 21st-century facelift. Meg Ryan and Annette Bening are slated to star.
Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady. Rex Harrison hat on TCM: ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘Anna and the King of Siam’ Rex Harrison is Turner Classic Movies’ final “Summer Under the…
Constance Bennett. At one point in the early 1930s, Constance Bennett was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. (In her early Warner Bros. movies, Bette Davis was clearly modeled after Bennett.)…
DGA Awards make history: Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker: Iraq War drama directed by Directors Guild Award nominee Kathryn Bigelow. (Image: Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment). Kathryn Bigelow (The…
Stanley Kramer in “Film-Making with Spencer Tracy” (essay found in The Films of Spencer Tracy): “I can’t explain why I was never able to say to him what I wanted…
Jean Parker: Last Surviving Little Women 1933 actress and Lady for a Day ingenue + star of sleeper MGM hit Sequoia and whose husband was Batman actor.