Barbara Stanwyck: Busy Hollywood actress known as a “consummate professional,” Stanwyck never took home a competitive Academy Award even though, over the course of her 35-year film career, she delivered…
Actress Carol Lynley: Why the dramatic career downturn? The 1970s were a problematic decade for Hollywood film actresses; still, it’s hard to understand why her post-The Poseidon Adventure movies mostly…
Fred Astaire. Fred Astaire movies: Dancing in the dark & on the ceiling on TCM Aug. 5 is Fred Astaire Day on Turner Classic Movies, as TCM continues with its…
Ralph Bellamy in Sunrise at Campobello, with Greer Garson: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. Ralph Bellamy was what many would call a “dependable” player: always there (nearly 100 movies), always…
Lucille Ball: The glamour look. Unlike Robert Taylor, who would have turned 100 today, or Ginger Rogers, whose centennial was last July 16, Lucille Ball is actually going to be…
Marie Osborne, known as “Baby Marie,” one of the movies’ first well-known child actors, died Nov. 11, in San Clemente, California. Osborne had turned 99 on Nov. 5. Among Baby…
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…
Clint Eastwood in The Bridges of Madison County, with Meryl Streep. Clint Eastwood is the last star to be featured in Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series, 2010…
Ginger Rogers Ginger Rogers’ last Star of the Month evening begins on March 31 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time on Turner Classic Movies. Among the Rogers classics on TCM’s schedule…
Ginger Rogers is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of March. Most of the films – perhaps all of them – have been shown on TCM before. So, don’t…
Amateur home movies’ stars: Roddy McDowall during the filming of George Stevens’ The Greatest Story Ever Told (top); Norma Shearer on the set of Romeo and Juliet (bottom). Amateur home…