Movie Buff: Author Anthony Slide discusses neglected area in film history - the humorous and/or tragic lives and times of film fanatics + collectors.
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Irene Dunne. Irene Dunne movies: Five-time Best Actress Academy Award nominee starred in now-forgotten originals of well-remembered remakes For over a decade a couple of dozen Irene Dunne movies have…
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Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady. Rex Harrison hat on TCM: ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘Anna and the King of Siam’ Rex Harrison is Turner Classic Movies’ final “Summer Under the…
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Bette Davis vs. Oscars: Davis received widespread praise but no Academy Award nomination for her work in John Cromwell’s Of Human Bondage. The outrage was such that the Academy changed…
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. + Monty Woolley: Christmas cheer + horror Mix at Packard plus Mary Wickes and Woody Allen + Ingmar Bergman classics.
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The Goddess with Kim Stanley. Paddy Chayefsky evokes a cynical Tennessee Williams in his screenplay for The Goddess, a Hollywood cautionary tale directed by veteran John Cromwell. Episodic in progression…
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‘The Marines Are Coming’: Gay star’s final movie The Marines Are Coming was a last-minute substitution for the 1936 version of M’Liss, starring Anne Shirley, which was originally scheduled but…
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Movies with gay characters: A fey Charles Laughton as Nero, plus Claudette Colbert and Fredric March in The Sign of the Cross. Inspired by Richard Barrios’ book Screened Out: Playing Gay…
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Maj-Britt Nilsson. Maj-Britt Nilsson, best known for her roles in three Ingmar Bergman films of the early 1950s, died last Dec. 19 in Cannes. She was 82. Nilsson’s three Bergman…
The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 at Academy: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Centennial and career peak in David O. Selznick classic with Ronald Colman + Madeleine Carroll.
Cinecon attractions include a squeaky-voiceless (silent) and brunette Jean Arthur in The Poor Nut and a young Alice Faye in one of her earliest musicals.