Coleen Gray: Actress and film noir good girl went from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Killing’ to ‘The Leech Woman.’ Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men…
Debbie Reynolds: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer singing and dancing star. Debbie Reynolds movies: Oscar nominee for ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown,’ sweetness and light in phony ‘The Singing Nun’ Debbie Reynolds is Turner Classic…
Vivien Leigh ca. late 1940s. Vivien Leigh movies: now controversial ‘Gone with the Wind,’ little-seen ’21 Days Together’ on TCM Vivien Leigh is Turner Classic Movies’ star today, Aug. 18,…
Rex Ingram in The Thief of Bagdad 1940 with tiny Sabu. An Alexander Korda production. Actor Rex Ingram movies: Early black Hollywood performer It’s somewhat unusual for two well-known film…
Teresa Wright The Men publicity shot: Her career was derailed following a nasty, public fight with independent mogul Samuel Goldwyn. Teresa Wright & Samuel Goldwyn association comes to a nasty,…
Honorary Award non-recipient Marlene Dietrich. Honorary Award: Academy ‘snubbed’ Gloria Swanson & Rita Hayworth + Marlene Dietrich & dozens of other women (See previous post: “Honorary Oscars: Doris Day &…
Mary Anderson: Gone with the Wind actress. ‘Gone with the Wind’ actress Mary Anderson dead at 96; also featured in Alfred Hitchcock thriller ‘Lifeboat’ Mary Anderson, an actress featured in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
Anne Hathaway: Oscars’ host with James Franco. The Oscars’ host: Anne Hathaway & James Franco combo the worst ever? While on the Kodak stage on Feb. 27, this year’s Oscar…
F. Scott Fitzgerald Movies & Gina Lollobrigida + ‘Mare Nostrum’ & ‘Serious’ 1950s Hollywood Classics
Tender Is the Night with Jennifer Jones. Henry King’s 1962 movie adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1934 novel – screenplay by Ivan Moffat – starred Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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 played box-next-door types in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1940s and was at his best as the gay psychopathic murderer in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 thriller Strangers on a…
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…
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…
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-…
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…
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…
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…