Gregory Peck

Father of the Bride with Steve Martin and Kimberly Williams: Father’s Day Movies. Top Five Father’s Day Movies? From giant Gregory Peck to tyrant John Gielgud What would be the Top Five Father’s Day movies ever made? Well, there have…

Polly Bergen became the “first U.S. woman president” in the 1964 comedy Kisses for My President. Polly Bergen movies: ‘First woman U.S. president’ dead at 84 Emmy Award-winning actress Polly Bergen – whose movie and television roles ranged from the first…

Gregory Peck. Gregory Peck movies: Memorable miscasting in David O. Selznick’s Western Gregory Peck is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Aug. 15, 2013. TCM is currently showing Raoul Walsh’s good-looking but not too exciting Captain Horatio…

Royal romance movies: Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer discover sprightly love and excruciating heartbreak in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1927 silent classic The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. As a William & Kate tie-in, Turner Classic Movies is showing several royal weddings,…

Lost movie: Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh. Oscar Winner Emil Jannings & Theda Bara + Lon Chaney & Clara Bow in Color: ‘Fragments’ on TCM The final reel of John Ford’s The Village Blacksmith (1922), featuring Virginia…

The Gay Divorcee stars Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It’s too bad I’m posting this a little too late, as the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theater welcomed the year 2011 with a screening of one of the best Fred…

Tyrone Power: Q&A with researcher Maria Ciaccia about one of the biggest film stars of the 20th century Among the romantic leading men of the studio era, Tyrone Power, 20th Century Fox’s top male star from the mid-1930s to the…

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 movies featuring Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe,…

Gregory Peck movies Sunday, Aug. 3, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” film series continues with a day dedicated to Gregory Peck, one of the most underrated performers of the studio era. Peck frequently excelled in comedies…

Psychological movies: Movies on the Mind since Sigmund Freud “I don’t believe it’s possible to graphically represent the abstract nature of our thinking in a respectable form,” said Sigmund Freud. Whether Freud was right or wrong is debatable, though his…

Actor Brock Peters, best known as the black man falsely accused of rape in Robert Mulligan’s 1962 drama To Kill a Mockingbird, died at age 78 of pancreatic cancer earlier today, Aug. 23, at his home. Best Actor Academy Award winner Gregory…