Maureen O’Hara: Queen of Technicolor. Maureen O’Hara movies: TCM tribute Veteran actress and Honorary Oscar recipient Maureen O’Hara, who died at age 95 on Oct. 24, ’15, in Boise, Idaho,…
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Maureen O’Hara: Honorary Oscar recipient. Maureen O’Hara: Honorary Oscar to ‘How Green Was My Valley,’ ‘The Quiet Man’ actress Veteran actress Maureen O’Hara attended the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
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American military movies: Besides depicting the Civil War, D.W. Griffith’s landmark 1915 feature The Birth of a Nation had the Ku Klux Klan saving heroine Lillian Gish. From ‘The Birth…
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Myrna Loy. John Wayne movies 6:00 AM FLYING LEATHERNECKS (1951) A World War II Marine officer drives his men mercilessly during the battle for Guadalcanal. Director: Nicholas Ray. Cast: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter, Jay…
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Ray Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard in Reap the Wild Wind Debonair Ray Milland is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in April 2011. This evening, beginning at…
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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Set in the transitional 1960s, “Fade Out, Fade In” is the next episode of the TCM miniseries Moguls &…
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Maureen O’Hara movies include William Dieterle’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry King’ The Black Swan, and John Ford’s The Quiet Man. Maureen O’Hara, who is turning 90, is Turner…
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True Grit 2010 movie review: Far superior to the 1969 John Wayne version, as Joel and Ethan Coen Western is much more than the sum of its parts.
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Fess Parker, who died earlier today of natural causes at age 85, was mostly known for his television work. “Davy Crockett,” which aired as part of the Disneyland anthology series,…
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John Wayne movies: The John Wayne-directed The Alamo. Image: Courtesy Turner Classic Movies. It’s John Wayne day on Tuesday, Aug. 18, as Turner Classic Movies continues with its “Summer Under…
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. “Late Hawks” is the title of a film series featuring the, what else?, later efforts of Hollywood auteur Howard Hawks, which…
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Barbara Stanwyck. Barbara Stanwyck movies There have probably been few transformations more striking than that of Ruby Stevens of Brooklyn into Barbara Stanwyck of Hollywood – the highest-paid woman in…
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Amateur home movies’ stars: Roddy McDowall during the filming of George Stevens’ The Greatest Story Ever Told (top); Norma Shearer on the set of Romeo and Juliet (bottom). Amateur home…
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The Trespasser movie: Gloria Swanson stars in mother love melodrama with Purnell Pratt and Robert Ames, who would die two years after this film was made. Author Cari Beauchamp will…
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John Wayne Centennial Screening In celebration of John Wayne’s centennial, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will premiere a new restoration of The High and the Mighty (1954),…
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Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. Don Siegel Movies: From Alien Pods to Clint Eastwood From March 17 through April 13, New York City’s Film Forum (website) will be screening a…
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An experimental cult classic and a Glenn Ford star vehicle are among new DVDs featuring long-unseen titles with a little-known John Wayne connection.
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John Wayne DVD collection features a rare all-star and multiple Oscar-nominated ‘disaster’ blockbuster, in addition to Shakespearean and 3D Westerns.
Montgomery Clift could have become a much bigger star had he turned down fewer roles in major classics (Sunset Blvd., reportedly Shane, East of Eden) and accepted fewer roles in…
Adele Mara, a 1940s Hollywood actress best remembered for her leading-lady role in the John Wayne war melodrama Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and for playing one of Rita Hayworth’s…
Stagecoach film: John Wayne, George Bancroft, and Louise Platt. Stagecoach is the next 1939 best picture Oscar nominee to be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
Kwaidan. Sunday, June 8, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Some consider Stagecoach, a rip-off of Guy de Maupassant’s “Boule de suif,” John Ford’s best film. Personally, despite a few good…
Thomas Edison ‘Frankenstein’ 1910 owner Alois F. Dettlaff found dead Alois F. Dettlaff, the film archivist responsible for preserving the only surviving print of Thomas Edison’s 1910 film adaptation of…