George Stevens

Comedy actress Alice Howell on the cover of film historian Anthony Slide’s latest book: Pioneering funky-haired performer “could have been Chaplin” – or at the very least another Louise Fazenda. Rediscovering comedy actress Alice Howell: Female performer in movie field…

Katharine Hepburn movies. Katharine Hepburn movies: Woman in drag, in love, in danger In case you’re suffering from insomnia, you might want to spend your night and early morning watching Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series. Four-time Best…

Mother roles: Teresa Wright in The Actress, with daughter Jean Simmons and husband Spencer Tracy. Teresa Wright in the 1950s: From Marlon Brando leading lady to spinsters and mother roles in less than five years (See preceding post: “Teresa Wright…

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, ’15, on Turner Classic Movies. Among these are three titles directed by Frank…

‘Shane’: Alan Ladd stars in classic Western to be screened at the Academy The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a 60th anniversary screening of George Stevens’ classic Western Shane, starring Alan Ladd as a lone and…

Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea in The More the Merrier. The delightful actress Jean Arthur is Turner Classic Movies’ star of the evening tonight. Beginning at 5 p.m. PT, TCM will show five Jean Arthur movies: The Talk of the…

Swing Time movie: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (top); choreographer Hermes Pan, Fred Astaire, and director George Stevens on the set of Swing Time (bottom). The George Stevens-directed Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire musical Swing Time will be presented as part of…

Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in The Talk of the Town (top); Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year (bottom). George Stevens’ monthlong homage ends this evening on Turner Classic Movies. The screening films are the Fred…

I Remember Mama with Irene Dunne, Philip Dorn, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Brown: George Stevens immigrant family drama. George Stevens’ film series on Turner Classic Movies continues tonight with a potpourri of films: the romantic drama Alice Adams (1935), the…

James Dean Giant: George Stevens sprawling Texas-set family drama. George Stevens will be the star attraction of Turner Classic Movies’ Monday evenings in April. The series begins tonight at 5 p.m. PDT with a showing of Giant (1956), one of…

Gunga Din movie: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. George Stevens’ proudly “politically incorrect” – and for the most part much admired – action-adventure tale Gunga Din will have a special screening on Friday, June 12, at 7:30…

George Stevens’ ‘The More the Merrier’ movie screening: Oscar-Nominated romantic comedy stars Jean Arthur & Joel McCrea + Charles Coburn As part of its George Stevens Lecture on Directing series, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present…