McLintock! (movie 1963): Loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew, this reactionary comedy Western marked the final pairing of John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara.
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Hondo (movie 1953): John Farrow’s 3D Western provided future Best Actress Oscar winner Geraldine Page with her first major big-screen role. John Wayne costars as a ‘Shane’ type.
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TCM Classic Film Festival: Angie Dickinson, Ann-Margret and Russ Tamblyn were among the celebrities in attendance, while screenings focused on Warner Bros.’ (official) centenary.
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Oscars’ Westerns: Turner Classic Movies’ ’31 Days of Oscar’ continues with 11 titles, including John Ford’s classic Stagecoach and the so-called Worst Best Picture Winner Ever.
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Maureen O’Hara Oscar: Honorary Award given to feisty, red-headed The Quiet Man and Rio Grande actress and John Wayne leading lady.
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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. Ray Milland movies on TCM Debonair Ray Milland is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in April…
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Fade Out Fade In: Flaring racial tensions and decaying Hollywood Mansions + right-wing pro-war propaganda with iconic all-American hero.
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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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Starring Robert Mitchum, William A. Wellman’s 1954 cult classic Track of the Cat is one of five new DVDs of long-unseen movies with a little-known John Wayne connection.
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The highlight of Paramount Home Entertainment’s four new John Wayne DVDs is the long-unseen multiple Oscar-nominated ‘disaster’ blockbuster The High and the Mighty.
Maureen O’Hara Movies: TCM Tribute to Queen of Technicolor featured opposite John Wayne in 5 movies including the John Ford classic The Quiet Man.
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 with John Wayne. Stagecoach is the next 1939 best picture Oscar nominee to be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest…
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…