Danièle Delorme: Rare woman director muse and pioneering female movie producer also featured in blockbuster bigger than Star Wars.
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Honorary Award bypassed Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson and Rita Hayworth among dozens of other women as Academy focused on male recipients.
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Paul Henreid. Paul Henreid: Actor was ‘dependable’ leading man to Hollywood actresses Paul Henreid, best known as the man who wins Ingrid Bergman’s body but not her heart in Casablanca,…
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Bryan Forbes. Bryan Forbes has died: Katharine Hepburn & Leslie Caron + the original ‘The Stepford Wives’ director Director Bryan Forbes, whose films include the then-daring The L-Shaped Room, the…
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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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8½ with Marcello Mastroianni: Federico Fellini 1963 classic stars his alter ego. In conjunction with its exhibition “Fellini’s Book of Dreams” – which is definitely worth a visit – the…
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Anna Magnani in Bellissima. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) began a mini Anna Magnani retrospective, Mamma Roma: The Films of Anna Magnani, on Friday, Nov. 3. Twelve…
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Imelda Staunton delivers a superb performance as a mid-1950s abortionist in Mike Leigh’s socially conscious family drama Vera Drake.
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…
Ramon Novarro and Enid Bennett in The Red Lily. Generally, I post my “Can’t Miss” warnings days after the must-see movies have been shown on television. I’ve decided to try something…