Dana Andrews Movies: Film Noir actor outstanding in portrayals of angst-ridden characters which made him unique mix of Hollywood hero and antihero.
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Rebecca 1940: Alfred Hitchcock Oscar Winner starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine returns to Brazil - place of plagiarism controversy.
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Olivia de Havilland vs. Warner Bros.: Landmark Lawsuit changed U.S. labor laws and paved the way for 2 Best Actress Oscars. She turns 100 this year.
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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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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movies: From Toyboy to Drug Smuggler in pre-Production Code movies such as Parachute Jumper and Little Caesar.
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Olivia de Havilland Turns 99: Sole Surviving major Gone with the Wind Cast Member Filed Lawsuit vs. Warner Bros. that Changed U.S. Labor Law.
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Audrey Long: actress in film noir classics Desperate, Born to Kill has died. She was married to The Saint author Leslie Charteris.
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Alicia Rhett as India Wilkes in Gone with the Wind. ‘Gone with the Wind’ actress Alicia Rhett dead at 98; was oldest surviving credited GWTW cast member Gone with the…
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Judgment at Nuremberg and Joan Fontaine: Stanley Kramer’s Best Message Movie and only Alfred Hitchcock Acting Oscar Winner plus Winter Olympics.
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Mickey Rooney movies on TCM: Music and murder (image: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland ca. 1940) Mickey Rooney is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star today, August 13,…
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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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John Kerr. John Kerr: ‘Tea and Sympathy’ gay teen on stage and screen has died John Kerr, best known for playing the sensitive (and suspected to be gay) adolescent opposite…
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Rebecca remake in the works? Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 original – based on a novel by Daphne Du Maurier – starred Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier. Hollywood has been running out…
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Edmund Goulding’s 1943 romantic drama The Constant Nymph, starring Oscar nominee Joan Fontaine, Charles Boyer, and Alexis Smith, will be shown tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 5 p.m. PT…
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Columbia Classics: Peter Finch and Anne Bancroft in Jack Clayton’s British-made 1964 drama The Pumpkin Eater. Elsewhere, Bette Davis outdoes Joan Crawford in the slapping department in the 1956 drama…
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Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh, one of the greatest performers of the 20th century, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in September. That’s the good news. The bad news:…
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Robert Taylor is April 2010’s Star of the Month on Turner Classic Movies. The Robert Taylor Tuesday evening has already begun: Camille (1937), in which he co-stars with Greta Garbo,…
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Olivia de Havilland. Olivia de Havilland is the subject of an interview published in the London Evening Standard about a week ago. The piece is a must-read. Discussed are de…
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Gunga Din movie: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. George Stevens’ proudly “politically incorrect” – and for the most part much admired – action-adventure tale Gunga Din will…
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Porgy and Bess: Rare movie version of George Gershwin musical New York screening The Samuel Goldwyn-produced, Otto Preminger-directed 1959 musical Porgy and Bess “was a much-touted, much-seen and in some…
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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…
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Starring Queen of MGM Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford, George Cukor’s all-female 1939 bitchfest The Women is getting a second facelift.
Marion Cotillard naked and dead in Psycho Shower Scene featuring homage to iconic Janet Leigh moment in Alfred Hitchcock horror classic.
Maximilian Schell. Maximilian Schell: Best Actor Oscar winner for ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ has died Actor and filmmaker Maximilian Schell, best known for his Oscar-winning performance as the defense attorney in…
Joan Fontaine. Joan Fontaine today: One of the best actresses of the studio era has her ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day Joan Fontaine, one of the few surviving movie stars…
Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion: Best Actress Oscar winner. Joan Fontaine, who turned 94 last Oct. 22, shines on Turner Classic Movies’ tonight. TCM will be showing five Fontaine…
Crossfire movie. Directed by Edward Dmytryk, written by John Paxton, and produced by Adrian Scott, Crossfire (1947) will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture…
Paul Newman in Hud. Paul Newman, who died this past Sept. 26 at age 83, will be the Star of the Day on Turner Classic Movies this Sunday, Oct. 12.…
Four news DVDs focus on Oscar-winning director George Stevens: A tribute to British colonialism; an immigration family drama; and two documentaries, one of which features rare WWII color footage.