In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s ‘best bad movie,’ The Barefoot Contessa, Ava Gardner exudes a magnetic – and underrated – mix of glamour and charisma.
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Joan Leslie Dead at 90: Underappreciated Actress Fought Jack Warner off screen and Danced with Fred Astaire and James Cagney on.
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Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall Dead: 89-year-old Oscar nominee who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in ‘To Have and Have Not’ and ‘The Big Sleep’ Lauren Bacall has died following a massive…
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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not. Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall: From To Have and Have Not to Key Largo Humphrey Bogart (born on Christmas…
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Spencer Tracy in San Francisco with Jeanette MacDonald. Spencer Tracy is the star of the evening on Turner Classic Movies. My two major recommendations are W. S. Van Dyke’s San…
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The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet An encore presentation of John Huston’s 1941 Best Picture nominee The Maltese Falcon, will be presented by the…
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Lauren Bacall. Lauren Bacall, hardly a top box office attraction in the 1940s or 1950s, but a major “Old Hollywood” star today, will have her Turner Classic Movies “Summer Under…
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The Bette Davis vehicle and 1939 Best Picture nominee Dark Victory will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest…
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Casablanca (movie 1942) review: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in Michael Curtiz’s romance classic. But is it truly great cinema? Top-notch Paul Henreid costars.
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Casablanca vs. Everybody Comes to Rick’s: Movie vs Play + Hollywood’s greatest Leading Couples from Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake to Dressler-Beery.
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Gloria Grahame actress: Sexy film noir vixen. Gloria Grahame actress: Sexy film noir vixen led complex life Gloria Grahame “lives on the edges of most of her films, too disturbing…
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Author and film historian Anthony Slide has another book out, (politically) Incorrect Entertainment or Trash from the Past: A history of political incorrectness and bad taste in 20th century American…
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Hollywood Home Movies: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart (top); Esther Williams (bottom). Rarely seen home movies from the personal collections of Alfred Hitchcock, Esther Williams (above), Steve McQueen, Lauren Bacall…
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Novelist and playwright Joseph Hayes, best known for his stage and film adaptations of his 1954 suspense novel The Desperate Hours, died this past Sept. 11 at a nursing home…
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Arthur Franz in ‘The Sniper.’ Arthur Franz bio: Veteran movie and television actor has died Film and television actor Arthur Franz died on June 18 in Oxnard, California. Until recently,…
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Mrs. Henderson Presents with Bob Hoskins and Judi Dench. Directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Martin Sherman, Mrs. Henderson Presents is an unabashedly old-fashioned star vehicle for Judi…
Humphrey Bogart, Old Hollywood’s most revered tough guy, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Day this Wednesday as TCM continues its “Summer Under the Stars” film series. (See further…
Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Dark Victory, Four Daughters, Citizen Kane, The More the Merrier, The Talk of the Town, A Star Is Born, Love Affair, Stagecoach,…
Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen. Saturday, Aug. 30, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Despite the fact that many of her movies were financial – and sometimes critical – flops,…
Breathless (movie 1960) review: Is Jean-Luc Godard’s iconic and hugely influential nouvelle vague film noir homage a vastly overrated classic? Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg star.
The Lost City: Andy Garcia makes it clear you should start the revolution without him Andy Garcia’s The Lost City is clearly a labor of love. Garcia fought for nearly…