Hondo (movie 1953): John Farrow’s 3D Western provided future Best Actress Oscar winner Geraldine Page with her first major big-screen role. John Wayne costars as a ‘Shane’ type.
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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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Oscar-nominated actress Susan Tyrrell remembered Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee Susan Tyrrell – for the 1972 drama Fat City – died at age 67 on June 17. In John…
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Young Paul Newman in Martin Ritt’s Hud. Twelve Paul Newman movies on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday, Aug. 21, as part of TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” series. (See Paul…
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Jane Fonda Broadway comeback: 33 Variations with Colin Hanks and Samantha Mathis. In the New York Times, Ben Brantley reviews Jane Fonda’s return to Broadway after 46 years: “It’s a…
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Paul Newman in Hud. Paul Newman, who died this past Sept. 26 at age 83, will be the Star of the Day on Turner Classic Movies this Sunday, Oct. 12.…
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Kwaidan. Sunday, June 8, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Some consider Stagecoach, a rip-off of Guy de Maupassant’s “Boule de suif,” John Ford’s best film. Personally, despite a few good…
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Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, based on a novel by Muriel Spark. ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ author Muriel Spark dead at 88 Scottish-born writer…
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The highlight of Paramount Home Entertainment’s four new John Wayne DVDs is the long-unseen multiple Oscar-nominated ‘disaster’ blockbuster The High and the Mighty.
The Goddess with Kim Stanley. Paddy Chayefsky evokes a cynical Tennessee Williams in his screenplay for The Goddess, a Hollywood cautionary tale directed by veteran John Cromwell. Episodic in progression…
The Trespasser movie: Gloria Swanson stars in mother love melodrama with Purnell Pratt and Robert Ames, who would die two years after this film was made. Author Cari Beauchamp will…