John Wayne

True Grit cast: Hailee Steinfeld and Jeff Bridges in ‘wonderful’ Joel and Ethan Coen 2010 Western remake. ‘True Grit’ cast delivers first-rate performances in 2010 Joel and Ethan Coen Western remake I’ve gotten to the point with the Coen brothers…

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, will be remembered by Turner Classic Movies with a 24-hour…

Coleen Gray: Actress and film noir good girl went from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Killing’ to ‘The Leech Woman.’ Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror ‘classic’ Actress Coleen Gray, best known as…

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 and Sciences’ 2014 Governors Awards, where she was handed an…

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 of a Nation’ to ‘Iron Man’: The love affair between…

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. Dir.: Nicholas Ray. Cast: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter, Jay C. Flippen. Color-102 minutes. 7:45 AM ALLEGHENY UPRISING (1939) Colonial…

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 & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood. Directed by Stanley Kramer,…

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 the Stars” series. One of the most popular film stars…

Stagecoach film with 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 and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture…

“Late Hawks” is the title of a film series featuring the, what else?, later efforts of Hollywood auteur Howard Hawks, which runs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from March 13–27. Personally, I tend not to buy into…

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 the United States in 1944. Stanwyck, whose film career lasted…

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 movies featuring Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe,…