Magnificent Obsession Book: Movie fans’ outrageous history from Hollywood screenwriters + gay porn actors to coal miner’s sons + D.W. Griffith players.
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First Best Actor and Best Actress Oscar Winners: Emil Jannings, Janet Gaynor plus silent superstars Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge.
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Doris Day today: Former Warner Bros. and Universal star is 89. Doris Day, who turned 89 last April 3 (she was born in Cincinnati in 1924), was a special guest…
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Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in 7th Heaven, which helped – along with Sunrise and Street Angel – to earn Gaynor the first-ever Best Actress Academy Award. Frank Borzage’s 7th…
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Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives. Fredric March, Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month, can be seen tonight at his best in two films and at…
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Farrah Fawcett. March 10 update: According to People Online, Farrah Fawcett’s family, friends, and fans have received “an apology” from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences executive director Bruce…
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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,…
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Annabella, Tyrone Power, Annabella’s daughter Anne, whom Power adopted Tyrone Power V: Sexual Orientation Rumors Janet Gaynor, Sonja Henie, Norma Shearer, Lana Turner – were those romances for real, or…
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Movie couples: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn. In Leading Couples: The Most Unforgettable Screen Romances of the Studio Era (Chronicle Books,…
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Castro Theatre special screenings: ‘Haunted house’ horror-comedy The Cat and the Canary + Oscar-winning Sunrise + unique Soviet comedy A Kiss from Mary Pickford On Valentine’s Day 2009, Feb. 14,…
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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,…
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Movie Quotes Oscar Poster: Academy Makes Offer You Can’t Refuse with dozens of dialogue bits from Best Picture winners or nominees + 3 missing classic lines.
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Janet Gaynor and George O’Brien in Sunrise, an early Academy Award winner directed by F. W. Murnau. Berlin Film Festival: Women in Silent Films The Retrospective sidebar of the 2007…
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Janet Gaynor: First Best Actress Academy Award winner “Has anyone in Hollywood ever had a trajectory quite like the career and reputation of Janet Gaynor?” inquires Los Angeles Times film…
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…
https://youtu.be/Ki94_VlOGI0Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Forgotten Actresses Any Other World (https://youtu.be/Ki94_VlOGI0) Remembering actresses of the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood What better way to start the New…
Gladys Brockwell. Gladys Brockwell remembered Gladys Brockwell is the subject of an article by author Allan R. Ellenberger, who discusses the death of the remarkable silent film actress. “Today is…
The 11th San Francisco Silent Film Festival at the Castro Theater begins this Friday, July 14. The three-day festival will include screenings of Frank Borzage’s 7th Heaven (1927 – Friday,…