Actress Ann Sothern enjoyed an unusual second career peak that included a top Oscar winner and decades later she became one of the oldest nominees.
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In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s ‘best bad movie,’ The Barefoot Contessa, Ava Gardner exudes a magnetic – and underrated – mix of glamour and charisma.
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I Want to Live Screenwriter Don Mankiewicz Dead: Father Was Citizen Kane screenwriter while filmmaking uncle was multiple Oscar winner.
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Linda Darnell. Linda Darnell, the gorgeous leading lady of numerous 20th Century Fox productions of the 1940s, is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” player on Aug. 27. TCM,…
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Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper in Sam Wood’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. The censors at the Motion Picture Association of America and their precursors at the Production Code Office have…
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Sean Connery as James Bond. Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz, best known for his work on the James Bond flicks Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, and The Man with the…
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Gene Tierney in Laura with Clifton Webb: Classic 1944 film noir. Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb, Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 film noir Laura, one of the best…
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz ‘Suddenly Last Summer,’ starring Elizabeth Taylor. Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with…
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Cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff, one of the early masters of color cinematography, has died. He was 94. (Image: Peter Ustinov in Death on the Nile, shot by Jack Cardiff.) Cardiff’s…
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Friday, Aug. 29, on Turner Classic Movies: Marlon Brando. Some find Brando the greatest film actor ever. One assumes those people have never watched a movie with Edward G. Robinson, Pierre…
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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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Doctor Zhivago theme: Lara & the Russian Revolution When bigger isn’t exactly better: Doctor Zhivago – despite its classic music theme – is no masterpiece. Bloated and overlong, it fails…
Columbia Classics: Peter Finch and Anne Bancroft in Jack Clayton’s British-made 1964 drama The Pumpkin Eater. Elsewhere, Bette Davis outdoes Joan Crawford in the slapping department in the 1956 drama…
Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark in No Way Out Ruby Dee will be the special guest at a screening of No Way Out (1950), part of the Academy of Motion Picture…
Citizen Kane Oscar: Orson Welles’ Academy Award statuette for sale. Citizen Kane Oscar auction: Orson Welles’ Best Original Screenplay statuette to be sold Orson Welles’ Academy Award for Citizen Kane, considered…