Virginia Mayo. The honey-blonde – at times red-haired – heroine of Technicolor fare like Wonder Man, The Flame and the Arrow, and Painting the Clouds with Sunshine, Virginia Mayo was at her best as black-and-white antiheroines in dramas like The Best Years of Our Lives…
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Frances Dee movies: From ‘An American Tragedy’ to ‘Four Faces West’ Frances Dee began her film career at the dawn of the sound era, going from extra to leading lady within a matter of months. Her rapid ascencion came about thanks to Maurice Chevalier, who…
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Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea in The More the Merrier. The delightful actress Jean Arthur is Turner Classic Movies’ star of the evening tonight. Beginning at 5 p.m. PT, TCM will show five Jean Arthur movies: The Talk of the Town (1942), History Is Made…
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According to his official website, Jody McCrea, the actor-son of Frances Dee and Joel McCrea, died in in Roswell, New Mexico, of cardiac arrest on April 4. He was 74. Born on Sept. 6, 1934, in Los Angeles, Jody McCrea was the oldest of McCrea…
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George Stevens. George Stevens’ ‘The More the Merrier’ movie screening: Oscar-Nominated romantic comedy stars Jean Arthur & Joel McCrea + Charles Coburn As part of its George Stevens Lecture on Directing series, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a special screening…
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Joel McCrea. Joel McCrea movies: LACMA’s ‘Centenary Tribute’ to Old Hollywood star Joel McCrea, the star of numerous light comedies, melodramas, and Westerns from the early the 1930s to the early 1960s, will be honored with a “Centenary Tribute” by the Los Angeles County Museum…
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Western actress Marion Shilling. Mostly cast in oaters opposite Hoot Gibson, Tim McCoy, Rex Bell, Buck Jones, and other B-movie cowpokes, Marion Shilling was seen in more than 40 features in the early 1930s, most notably in the MGM musical flop Lord Byron of Broadway.…