Ronald Colman: Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in two major 1930s classics Updated: Turner Classic Movies’ July 2017 Star of the Month is Ronald Colman, one of the…
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Crime Novel classic remembered: Everywoman heroine with typical bourgeois values but an unusual black housekeeper ally + straight and gay movie versions.
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Edgar G. Ulmer movies on TCM: ‘The Black Cat’ & ‘Detour’ Turner Classic Movies’ June 2017 Star of the Month is Audrey Hepburn, but Edgar G. Ulmer is its film…
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William Cameron Menzies Movies: Murderous Joan Fontaine, Howard Hughes’ Nazi Communists out to destroy American Way of Life.
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Hedy Lamarr inventor ca. early 1940s. Hedy Lamarr: ‘Invention’ & inventor on Turner Classic Movies Two Hedy Lamarr movies released during her heyday in the early 1940s – Victor Fleming’s…
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Audrey Totter ca. late 1940s Audrey Totter: Film noir actress and MGM leading lady dead at 95 Audrey Totter, film noir femme fatale and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player best remembered for…
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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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Margaret Field, best remembered for the 1951 B sci-fier The Man From Planet X, died at her Malibu home on Sunday, Nov. 6, the day her daughter Sally Field turned…
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Joan Bennett movies: Scarlet Street Joan Bennett is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Evening this Wednesday, May 11. TCM has already shown Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945), in which…
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George Eastman House movie ‘The Reckless Moment’: Crime drama with James Mason and Joan Bennett. George Eastman House movies: Max Ophüls dramas ‘The Reckless Moment’ and ‘Caught’ Located in Rochester,…
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What better way to start the New Year than by remembering the long-ago past? No, not war and assorted catastrophes, but beauty and romance. The clip above features a montage…
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Hypnosis and crime: Michael Redgrave and Joan Bennett in Secret Beyond the Door. April 4 update: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation you’ll be able to catch…
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Femme Fatale Ann Savage: Detour actress The Meanest Woman in Film History for superlative performance as film noir psychopath.
Katharine Hepburn movies. Katharine Hepburn movies: Woman in drag, in love, in danger In case you’re suffering from insomnia, you might want to spend your night and early morning watching…
Douglas Sirk blockbuster Imitation of Life, with Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, and Karin Dicker. Douglas Sirk movies: ‘Imitation of Life,’ ‘Written on the Wind’ Douglas Sirk is Turner Classic Movies’…
Elizabeth Taylor movies: A Place in the Sun with Montgomery Clift. Elizabeth Taylor can be found in 11 movies to be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, Aug. 23,…
Stanley Kramer in “Film-Making with Spencer Tracy” (essay found in The Films of Spencer Tracy): “I can’t explain why I was never able to say to him what I wanted…