Coleen Gray Actress: From Red River to Good Girls in Film Noir Classics such as Nightmare Alley and Kiss of Death plus Frank Capra musical.
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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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Vivien Leigh Movies: Anglo-Indian-Armenian Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire?
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Rex Ingram (Actor): Early Black Performer in Hollywood Movies such as Cabin in the Sky. He also played the Genie in The Thief of Bagdad 1940.
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Teresa Wright and Samuel Goldwyn had an ugly parting in 1948, when the producer publicly fired and berated his Oscar-winning contract star.
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Honorary Award bypassed Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson and Rita Hayworth among dozens of other women as Academy focused on male recipients.
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Marta Heflin in A Perfect Couple. Broadway actress Marta Heflin dead at 68: Featured in several Robert Altman movies Stage actress Marta Heflin, who was featured in a handful of…
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Gregory Peck. Gregory Peck movies: Memorable miscasting in David O. Selznick’s Western Gregory Peck is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star on Aug. 15. TCM is currently showing…
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Movie stars of the 1930s still alive: Best Actress Oscar winners Luise Rainer, Olivia de Havilland, Jennifer Jones, Barbra Streisand, and Meryl Streep, and other Oscar-winning actors and actresses at…
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Deanna Durbin in I’ll Be Yours. Deanna Durbin dies at 91: One of the top stars of Hollywood’s studio era According to Hollywood lore, teen star Deanna Durbin saved Universal…
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Luise Rainer: Oldest living Oscar winner. Luise Rainer: Oldest Living Oscar winner turns 103 today Luise Rainer, the recipient of two back-to-back Best Actress Oscars in the mid-1930s, is the…
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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’…
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Lon McCallister: Boy-Next-Door troubled gay relationship with William Eythe If remembered at all, Lon McCallister is associated with Boy-Next-Door roles in several 20th Century Fox “family” movies of the mid-…
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Claudette Colbert Paramount star Those who remember Claudette Colbert, Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” featured player today, will likely picture a woman raising her skirt so as to…
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John Garfield, Joan Crawford, Humoresque John Garfield is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star on Friday, Aug. 5, ’11. TCM will be presenting twelve John Garfield movies, in…
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Rock Hudson. Gay actor Rock Hudson was not… It’s surprising that back in the mid-1980s some people were surprised to learn that Rock Hudson was gay, when the star of…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald movies + Gina Lollobrigida comedy and Rex Ingram mystical spy-romance fantasy + quartet of ‘serious’ 1950s Hollywood classics.
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Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer Jones, the widow of both Gone with the Wind producer David O. Selznick and industrialist Norton Simon, will have a number of her belongings auctioned.…
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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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Jennifer Jones in Madame Bovary. Jennifer Jones’ “Summer Under the Stars” day on Turner Classic Movies is Monday, Aug. 17. A very popular actress in the 1940s and 1950s, Jennifer…
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Jennifer Jones, one of my all-time favorite performers, turned 90 yesterday, March 2. The name doesn’t ring a sonorous bell? Well, it should. Jennifer Jones, the sensitive, darkly beautiful actress…
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Gregory Peck movies Sunday, Aug. 3, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” film series continues with a day dedicated to Gregory Peck, one of the most underrated…
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Baseball films on DVD: From Babe Ruth to Colleen Moore Kino’s “Reel Baseball – 1899–1926” two-disc set has become one of that DVD distributor’s biggest sellers in their silent film…
Robert Walker: Actor ran the gamut from amiable, heterosexual boy-next-door types to one memorable, murderous gay psychopath.
John Travolta in the Scientology-inspired movie ‘Battlefield Earth.’ From John Travolta to Bob Dylan, from Ed Wood to Orson Welles: ‘The Greatest Bad Movies of All Time’ Phil Hall’s The…
Adele: Golden Globes’ lack of surprises. Golden Globes non-surprises: Adele & Ben Affleck + Daniel Day-Lewis The Golden Globes 2013 – a.k.a. the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards – offered…
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…
Worst Oscar Host Ever? Anne Hathaway and James Franco widely panned but what about Academy Awards produced by the flamboyant Allan Carr?
Jennifer Jones in Portrait of Jennie: one of Luis Buñuel’s favorite films. Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer Jones dead at 90: Best remembered for her portrayals of troubled, complex women…
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,…