Father’s Day Top 5 Movies: From Compassionate Gregory Peck to Sociopath John Gielgud in addition to other kind and demented film daddies.
Henry Fonda
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Jane Fonda Movies: From ‘Vietnam Traitor’ to Best Actress Oscars
10 minutes readJane Fonda in Alan J. Pakula’s Klute. Jane Fonda movies on TCM: ‘The China Syndrome’ & ‘Klute’ + Jean-Luc Godard drama Turner Classic Movies’ 2014 “Summer Under the Stars” kicked …
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Gore Vidal Controversial Movies: Gay Ben-Hur Subtext?
5 minutes readGore Vidal movies: The Best Man, Caligula, Suddenly Last Summer. (Image: A young Gore Vidal.) Author, playwright, screenwriter, acerbic storyteller, and political commentator Gore Vidal died on July 31 at …
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Sex Scandals & Politics
10 minutes readWeird stuff happened at the most recent MTV Movie Awards ceremony: Justin Timberlake grabbed Mila Kunis’ breasts, Mila Kunis grabbed Justin Timberlake’s crotch, Robert Pattinson kissed Taylor Lautner instead of …
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Oscar comebacks: Adrien Brody in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. Generally speaking, most actors, actresses, and directors either get that once-in-a-lifetime Academy Award nomination, or, if they’re lucky, a couple or …
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James MacArthur: Hawaii Five-O + The Young Stranger Actor
2 minutes readJames MacArthur, best remembered for playing blue-eyed Detective Danno Williams in the original version of Hawaii Five-0 and for being the adopted son of Broadway and Hollywood star Helen Hayes …
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Henry Fonda Movies: The Wrong Man + The Lady Eve
5 minutes readHenry Fonda, like James Stewart and Gary Cooper, was one of the prototypical “All-American” actors of the studio era. But if you believe that Fonda’s generally one-dimensional characters represented the …
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‘Crossfire’ Movie: Bleak Post-War Mood in Anti-Semitism Drama + Joan Fontaine-Charles Boyer Rarity Revisited
11 minutes readCrossfire movie. Directed by Edward Dmytryk, written by John Paxton, and produced by Adrian Scott, Crossfire (1947) will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture …
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Ken Annakin, best remembered for directing the big-budget 1965 adventure comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, died on April 22 at his home in Beverly Hills. Like fellow …
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Henry Fonda Movies: 12 Angry Men + The Best Man
4 minutes readSunday, Aug. 24, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: The romantic melodrama Jezebel (actually a Bette Davis vehicle), the courtroom drama 12 Angry Men, and Franklin J. Schaffner’s film adaptation of …
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Oscar Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of Academy Award History
8 minutes readAcademy Award winner John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath, with Henry Fonda and Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winner Jane Darwell Oscar Quiz: Test your knowledge of Academy Award history …
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Ennio Morricone: Cinema Paradiso + Once Upon a Time in the West Composer Getting Honorary Oscar
8 minutes readEnnio Morricone: Once Upon a Time in the West and Cinema Paradiso composer gets Honorary Oscar after 500 scores plus five nominations but no wins.
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Sidney Lumet Finally Taking Home Oscar Statuette
8 minutes readSidney Lumet getting some belated Academy recognition: Next year’s Honorary Oscar will be going to the Dog Day Afternoon director.
Annabella in René Clair’s Le Million Though best remembered as Tyrone Power’s first wife, Annabella (1907-1996) was a major star in France before she came to Hollywood in 1938 to …
Walter Matthau Movies: The Sunshine Boys + California Suite
Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder’s The Fortune Cookie Twelve Walter Matthau movies will be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Wednesday, Aug. 11, as part of TCM’s “Summer …
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 with Claudia Cardinale. Sergio Leone’s epic Western Once Upon a Time in the West will be screened as part of the Academy …