Legendary Broadway actor John Barrymore also enjoyed an impressive and enduring - yet vastly undervalued - movie career in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Melvyn Douglas. Melvyn Douglas: From suave leading man to Hollywood’s top female stars to first-rate dramatic actor Unlike Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, or Gary Cooper, Melvyn Douglas couldn’t exactly be…
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How to Be a Latin Lover: Ricardo Cortez leading ladies and marriage to drug-addicted Hollywood star plus directing Dalton Trumbo socially conscious drama.
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Ricardo Cortez: Latin Lover from Manhattan Jewish family was the perfect Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Paramount’s threat to Rudolph Valentino.
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Ernst Lubitsch movies’ subtle touch now passé in our age of sledgehammer filmmaking but The Student Prince, The Merry Widow still delight.
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Charles Brackett Diaries: Billy Wilder Forgotten Partner offers lots of Old Hollywood Ugly Politics and Juicy Gossip in diary entries.
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Greta Garbo movies: Rare Silent Era Superstar is still remembered Today in 2 of her biggest hits and best-known MGM films.
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Vivien Leigh Movies: Anglo-Indian-Armenian Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire?
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movies: From Toyboy to Drug Smuggler in pre-Production Code movies such as Parachute Jumper and Little Caesar.
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Robert Mitchum Movies: The Yakuza surprising casting and effectively cast against type in David Lean’s troubled Ryan’s Daughter with Sarah Miles.
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Ron Moody: Oliver! Actor, Oscar Nominee Dead. Dickens’ Fagin in troubled but highly successful stage musical and later Best Picture winner..
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Marc Allégret: From André Gide Protégé (and lover) to Simone Simon Mentor. Allégret was one of French cinema’s greatest starmakers.
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Best Documentary Short Oscar Contenders: The prospect of death and Illness are key topics plus art, oil and a hotline for war veterans.
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Honorary Oscars have bypassed women for decades. Is the Academy biased? Angela Lansbury, Lauren Bacall among rare winners.
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Claudette Colbert and Maurice Chevalier in The Smiling Lieutenant. Claudette Colbert movies: From ‘The Smiling Lieutenant’ to ‘Skylark’ Claudette Colbert, the studio era’s perky, independent-minded – and French-born – “all-American”…
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Drew Barrymore sister Jessica Barrymore. Drew Barrymore half-sister Jessica Barrymore found dead near San Diego Drew Barrymore’s half-sister Jessica Barrymore was found dead in her car early Tuesday, July 29,…
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Wallace Beery in Min and Bill, with Marie Dressler. Wallace Beery movies: TCM offers a glimpse into actor’s extensive filmography According to the IMDb, the Wallace Beery Filmography features nearly…
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Mickey Rooney movies on TCM: Music and murder (image: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland ca. 1940) Mickey Rooney is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star today, August 13,…
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Ramon Novarro ca. 1925. Ramon Novarro: Mexican-born actor was first Latin American Hollywood superstar Mexican-born actor Ramon Novarro, the original Ben-Hur and one of MGM’s biggest stars of the late…
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Deanna Durbin in I’ll Be Yours. Deanna Durbin dies at 91: One of the top stars of Hollywood’s studio era According to Hollywood lore, teen star Deanna Durbin saved Universal…
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Luise Rainer: Oldest living Oscar winner. Luise Rainer: Oldest Living Oscar winner turns 103 today Luise Rainer, the recipient of two back-to-back Best Actress Oscars in the mid-1930s, is the…
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The Iron Petticoat with Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope. Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope: ‘The Iron Petticoat’ TCM premiere Starring Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope, The Iron Petticoat became a movie…
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Honorary Oscar: George Stevens Jr. George Stevens Jr. is the founding director of the American Film Institute. During his tenure, the AFI established the Center for Advanced Film Studies and…
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Lionel Barrymore movies: Rare Night Flight. Lionel Barrymore movies on TCM. (Image: Lionel Barrymore [right] You Can’t Take It with You, with Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, and James Stewart.) Lionel…
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Beautiful Disaster acquired by Warner Bros. The film rights to Jamie McGuire’s Beautiful Disaster, (initially) a self-published novel, has been acquired by Warner Bros. McGuire’s story has been described as…
(See previous post: “Gay Pride Movie Series Comes to a Close: From Heterosexual Angst to Indonesian Coup.”) Ken Russell’s Valentino (1977) is notable for starring ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev as…
Virginia Bruce Movies: Actress known as Cherry on Pretty Girl Wedding Cake did NOT go from Great Ziegfeld to Paul Morrissey despite claims.
Rex Ingram (Actor): Early Black Performer in Hollywood Movies such as Cabin in the Sky. He also played the Genie in The Thief of Bagdad 1940.
Honorary Oscar NON-winner Doris Day inexplicably snubbed by the Academy. Why? Other women include Danielle Darrieux, Liv Ullmann and Mia Farrow.
Tatiana Samoilova in The Cranes Are Flying: The Russian Audrey Hepburn. Tatiana Samoilova dead at 80: ‘The Russian Audrey Hepburn’ best remembered for Cannes winner ‘The Cranes Are Flying’ Russian film…
Eleanor Parker movies. Eleanor Parker movies on TCM Palms Springs area resident Eleanor Parker, who turns 91 next June 26, was one of the best actresses of Hollywood’s studio era.…
Constance Bennett movies on TCM: What Price Hollywood? Constance Bennett is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of November. TCM will be presenting six Constance Bennett movies tonight, including…