Barbara Stanwyck: Busy Hollywood actress known as a “consummate professional,” Stanwyck never took home a competitive Academy Award even though, over the course of her 35-year film career, she delivered…
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Simone Simon: Femme fatale in ‘Cat People.’ Simone Simon: Remembering the ‘Cat People’ and ‘La Bête Humaine’ actress Pert, pretty, pouty, and fiery-tempered Simone Simon – who died at age…
Actress Paulette Dubost, known as the “Dean of French Cinema,” and a performer in films directed by Jean Renoir, Marcel L’Herbier, Jacques Tourneur, Julien Duvivier, Max Ophüls, Preston Sturges, François…
Kirk Douglas is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of September. Though hardly a great film actor – or even a good one – Douglas has had one of…
Jane Greer in Out of the Past: Femme fatale in classic film noir. Today is neither Jane Greer’s birth nor death anniversary. Even so, Turner Classic Movies is devoting Saturday evening/night…
Citizen Kane Oscar: Orson Welles’ Academy Award statuette for sale. Citizen Kane Oscar auction: Orson Welles’ Best Original Screenplay statuette to be sold Orson Welles’ Academy Award for Citizen Kane, considered…
Godzilla 1954 movie review: Whether in Ishirô Honda’s Japanese original Gojira or in the 1956 U.S. version Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, the gigantic – and gigantically destructive – reptilian…