I Want to Live Screenwriter Don Mankiewicz Dead: Father Was Citizen Kane screenwriter while filmmaking uncle was multiple Oscar winner.
John Frankenheimer
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Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando Leading Lady to spinsters and Mother Roles (Jean Simmons, Sandra Dee) in less than 5 years and The Miracle Worker.
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James Garner. James Garner movies: ‘Grand Prix’ & ‘Victor Victoria’ among TCM highlights James Garner, whose film and television career spanned more than five decades, died of “natural causes” at …
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Dirk Bogarde. Dirk Bogarde: Victim star took no prisoners in his letters to Dilys Powell Letters exchanged between film critic Dilys Powell and actor Dirk Bogarde – one of the …
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Janet Leigh Psycho star Janet Leigh, born Jeanette Helen Morrison on July 6, 1927, in Merced, California, would have turned 85 today. Despite a film and television career spanning more …
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Janet Leigh movies: The Manchurian Candidate 1962, with Frank Sinatra. Janet Leigh would have turned 85 on Friday, July 6. In her honor, Turner Classic Movies is showing eight Janet …
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Kirk Douglas is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of September. Though hardly a great film actor – or even a good one – Douglas has had one of …
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Rock Hudson. Gay actor Rock Hudson was not… It’s surprising that back in the mid-1980s some people were surprised to learn that Rock Hudson was gay, when the star of …
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Ava Gardner with Burt Lancaster in Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir The Killers. Ava Gardner is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of November. The Gardner film series begins …
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James MacArthur, best remembered for playing blue-eyed Detective Danno Williams in the original version of Hawaii Five-0 and for being the adopted son of Broadway and Hollywood star Helen Hayes …
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Warren Beatty in Reds with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton. Eleven Warren Beatty movies will be shown on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, Aug. 9, as part of TCM’s “Summer Under …
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Angela Lansbury has her “Summer Under the Stars” day on Sunday, Aug. 23. Thanks to the popular TV series Murder She Wrote, Angela Lansbury became a bigger star in the …
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Maurice Jarre: 3-time Oscar-winning composer receiving Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement + Academy blocks sale of 2 Mary Pickford Oscars.
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Thelma Ritter publicity shot ca. early 1950s. Thelma Ritter: Six-time Oscar nominee would have turned 101 today Six-time Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee Thelma Ritter, who was born on …
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Suzanne Flon: Actress collaborated with Claude Autant-Lara + John Huston + Orson Welles Suzanne Flon, a renowned stage and screen actress who was featured in more than 50 movies, died …
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The Fixer (movie 1968) review: Alan Bates is badly miscast in John Frankenheimer and Dalton Trumbo’s drama about anti-Jewish hate, which is ruined by its lack of subtlety.
Eva Marie Saint: Actress has gone from Marlon Brando & Cary Grant to Superman As found in Arthur Spiegelman’s 2006 Reuters article “Eva Marie Saint won’t look back,” the Oscar-winning …
Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, The Leopard Burt Lancaster is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” featured star today, August 25. TCM is presenting 11 Burt Lancaster movies, …
Fredric March as a fictionalized William Jennings Bryan and Spencer Tracy as a fictionalized Clarence Darrow in Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind. Turner Classic Movies’ Fredric March tribute ends tonight …
Paul Scofield in A Delicate Balance with Katharine Hepburn. Benedict Nightingale’s “Paul Scofield: an overlooked acting great” in The [London] Times: “Why didn’t most theatregoers think of Paul Scofield in …
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) movie review: Meryl Streep is the one bright spot in Jonathan Demme’s stale remake of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 classic. Denzel Washington stars.