Oscars’ war movies: Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Academy Award-themed series continues with nine features, including two Best Picture winners and three nominees.
-
Maureen O’Hara Movies: TCM Tribute to Queen of Technicolor featured opposite John Wayne in 5 movies including the John Ford classic The Quiet Man.
-
Robert Walker: Actor ran the gamut from amiable, heterosexual boy-next-door types to one memorable, murderous gay psychopath.
-
Adolphe Menjou Movies: Old Hollywood (pseudo) Sophisticated Charmer in A Star Is Born and Stage Door, rabid right-winger off screen.
-
Early Woman Director Lois Weber Film to be shown. Socially Conscious drama with Mary MacLaren tackles working class issues and prostitution.
-
Jeanne Crain in The Fan with Madeleine Carroll. Jeanne Crain: Lighthearted movies vs. real life tragedies (See previous post: “Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.”) Unlike her characters…
-
F. Scott Fitzgerald movies + Gina Lollobrigida comedy and Rex Ingram mystical spy-romance fantasy + quartet of ‘serious’ 1950s Hollywood classics.
-
Maureen O’Hara movies include William Dieterle’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry King’ The Black Swan, and John Ford’s The Quiet Man. Maureen O’Hara, who is turning 90, is Turner…
-
Louise Brooks (center) in Diary of a Lost Girl (top); Fritz Lang’s sci-fi classic Metropolis (upper middle); George O’Brien (center) in John Ford’s The Iron Horse (lower middle); Norma Talmadge…
-
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…
-
Notable Cinecon movies include the ‘male bonding’ 1914 silent Damon and Pythias and an entertaining crime tale with a pre-Dr. Watson Nigel Bruce.
-
Henry King: Film director mostly associated with 20th Century Fox. Henry King director: San Sebastian Film Festival retrospective Henry King is best remembered for the movies he directed at Fox,…
-
Jean Parker: Last Surviving Little Women 1933 actress and Lady for a Day ingenue + star of sleeper MGM hit Sequoia and whose husband was Batman actor.
Simone Simon: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale was seen in nearly 40 films, seducing men old and young sometimes with deadly results.
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…
James Whitmore, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy- and Tony-winning actor whose career spanned six decades, died of lung cancer at his Malibu home yesterday, Feb. 6., ’09. He was 87. Though…