Dick Van Dyke on TCM: Turner Classic Movies is airing four films showcasing the small-screen star, who briefly flirted with big-screen celebrity in the 1960s.
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SAG president Ronald Reagan failed to rise to the occasion during the pivotal 1960 Screen Actors Guild strike, when veteran Hollywood stars and supporting players were denied residuals.
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Submarine Movie Feast: Memorial Day TCM Films
7 minutes readSubmarine movie evening: Underwater war waged in TCM’s Memorial Day films In the U.S., Turner Classic Movies has gone all red, white, and blue this 2017 Memorial Day weekend, presenting …
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Debbie Reynolds Movies: The Singing Nun Offers Sunny Contrast to Tragic Life of Sister Jeanne Deckers whose song Dominique became global hit.
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Polly Bergen, actress in Hollywood and on Broadway, was on Richard Nixon’s extended Enemies List, along with other liberal Democrat celebrities.
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James Garner Movies: Grand Prix + Victor Victoria
6 minutes readJames Garner. James Garner movies: ‘Grand Prix’ & ‘Victor Victoria’ among TCM highlights James Garner, whose film and television career spanned more than five decades, died of “natural causes” at …
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Randolph Scott Movies: From Westerns to Cary Grant Comedy
3 minutes readRandolph Scott ca. 1945. Randolph Scott movies: From Westerns to Cary Grant / Irene Dunne comedy Handsome, granite-faced Randolph Scott is Turner Classic Movies’ next great choice in its “Summer …
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Howards End with Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins: Music by Richard Robbins. ‘Howards End’ composer Richard Robbins has died Richard Robbins, two-time Academy Award-nominated composer and frequent James Ivory-Ismail Merchant …
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Alex Karras: Football player turned actor in’ Blazing Saddles’ & ‘Victor Victoria’ Alex Karras, a former football player for the Detroit Lions but known internationally for his roles in the …
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Eva Marie Saint: Actress has gone from Marlon Brando & Cary Grant to Superman As found in Arthur Spiegelman’s 2006 Reuters article “Eva Marie Saint won’t look back,” the Oscar-winning …
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Hal Kanter (see photo at Bette Davis tribute), creator of the groundbreaking TV series Julia, starring Diahann Carroll (photo) as a nurse, died at age 92 on Nov. 6 in …
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Doris Day to Receive Los Angeles Film Critics Career Achievement Award + LAFCC Usual Macho Choices
6 minutes readDoris Day may have been – once again – absurdly bypassed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors, but at least she’ll be getting some …
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Jean Simmons movies: Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster. Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month Jean Simmons’ film series comes to a close tonight, with the presentation of seven Jean …
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Neva Patterson: An Affair to Remember Actress + V Miniseries Alien Collaborator Has Died
9 minutes readNeva Patterson An Affair to Remember actress who loses Cary Grant to Deborah Kerr and V Miniseries Alien Collaborator + Buddy Holly Mom dead at 90.
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Lee Remick Movies: Experiment in Terror + Loot
5 minutes readLee Remick. Great news for Lee Remick fans: eleven of her movies will be shown on Thursday, Aug. 26, on Turner Classic Movies. Remick Day is part of TCM’s “Summer …
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Who is Greta Garbo? Find out on Turner Classic Movies. Thursday–Saturday, Aug. 7–9, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Thursday is Greta Garbo Day: Sometimes splendid, sometimes godawful, Garbo was invariably …
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Movies with gay characters: A fey Charles Laughton as Nero, plus Claudette Colbert and Fredric March in The Sign of the Cross. Inspired by Richard Barrios’ book Screened Out: Playing Gay …
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The Ultimate Gift (movie 2006) review: Slacker Drew Fuller learns a series of repetitive life lessons in this mundane ‘inspirational’ drama. Abigail Breslin and veteran James Garner costar.
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Best Actress SAG Award: Boxer Beats Diva in Rematch
7 minutes readBest Actress SAG Awards: Boxing-ring star beats stage diva in fierce rematch, while Katharine Hepburn has her first competitive Screen Actors Guild ‘win.’
Rod Taylor Movies: The Time Machine and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, comeback for Tarantino and was he the First Australian Hollywood Star?
Patti Page: “Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte” singer – but not in Robert Aldrich’s 1964 box office hit starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Joseph Cotten. Patti Page movies: ‘Elmer Gantry’ …
Clint Eastwood: Gay Marriage support or merely IDGAF? + Family reality show may feature ‘most fabulous’ cameo by two-time Best Director Oscar winner.
Blake Edwards Homage: From Sanitized ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ to Near-Anomaly ‘Victor Victoria’
Blake Edwards tribute: Shamelessly Sanitized Breakfast at Tiffany’s + Near-Anomaly Victor Victoria with Robert Preston as flamboyantly gay scene-stealer.
Joseph Pevney: Joan Crawford & Loretta Young Director
Joseph Pevney. Director Joseph Pevney: From Joan Crawford & Loretta Young to ‘Star Trek’ Director Joseph Pevney, best known for his 1950s movies made chiefly at Universal, and for handling …