Sex Education Film Class courtesy of the BFI + Glasgow Bette Davis Tribute and Woody Allen thriller + Evolution of Russian Cinema from Eisenstein to Sokurov.
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Back in the late 1920s, Anita Page could never have dreamed that eight decades later she would be a celebrity of sorts: The Official Last Surviving Silent Film Star. In …
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Joan Crawford. Some have called her the greatest movie star ever, but even if that’s a sort of exaggeration – how does one measure stardom-ness? – Joan Crawford most likely …
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The Misfits photos: Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller during the making of John Huston’s 1961 psychological drama. © The Inge Morath Foundation/Magnum Photos Rare photos of Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, …
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If remembered at all, the name Franchot Tone usually comes up only when someone lists Joan Crawford’s series of husbands. Never mind the fact that Franchot Tone appeared in about …
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Hedy Lamarr biography: Discussing Charles Boyer’s romantic interest in in Algiers. See previous post: Hedy Lamarr: Q&A with Author Patrick Agan: Part II Is it true that Hedy Lamarr refused …
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Jack Palance. Jack Palance: ‘Shane’ bloodthirsty villain and ‘City Slickers’ Oscar winner dead at 87 Jack Palance, a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner for City Slickers, died of “natural …
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Otto Preminger film noir Laura with Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” will be hosted by filmmaker …
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Bette Davis in Mr. Skeffington, directed by Vincent Sherman. Vincent Sherman dead at 99: Director guided Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Ida Lupino (image: Bette Davis in ‘Mr. Skeffington’) Vincent Sherman, …
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Author Henry Farrell, whose Grand Guignol tales What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte? were successfully adapted for the screen in the 1960s, died …
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Danish-born actress Osa Massen, a femme fatale in Hollywood films of the 1940s, died at age 91 on Jan. 2 at a convalescent home in Santa Monica, in Los Angeles …
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Gaslighting Abuse 21st-Century Style: George Cukor Classic thriller with Charles Boyer + Ingrid Bergman (already a remake of British film) is being remade.
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Marlon Brando Sister Jocelyn Brando death. The Big Heat car bomb Mob Victim, film career damaged by anti-Red hysteria.
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Joan Crawford young and entrepreneurial in Mildred Pierce. Joan Crawford young & middle-aged on DVD Joan Crawford, unfairly misremembered as a maternal ogress with a wire-hanger fixation, was actually one …
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Tom Cruise & Steven Spielberg War of the Worlds 2005 movie: H.G. Wells’ sci-fier for the 21st-century U.S. “Aren’t you afraid that audiences in some parts of the world may …
Jessie Matthews in the musical First a Girl: Victor Victoria precursor. The bfi is currently presenting a Jessie Matthews retrospective, which ends on March 11. From Richard Stirling’s bfi article: “Few stories …
Anna Magnani in Bellissima. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) began a mini Anna Magnani retrospective, Mamma Roma: The Films of Anna Magnani, on Friday, Nov. 3. Twelve …
Oleg Cassini, the costume designer for the rich and famous – including the (early 1960s) U.S. president’s wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, and his own wife (1941–1952), actress Gene Tierney – has …
MGM actress Greta Garbo in the 1930 Anna Christie. Actress Greta Garbo DVD box set ‘Garbo: The Signature Collection’ Greta Garbo is the star of the DVD box set “Garbo: …