Howard Keel publicity shot ca. 1950. A prominent name in Hollywood musicals in the first half of the 1950s, Howard Keel was seen – and heard – as baritone-voiced, larger-than-life characters in a quintet of the best-liked entries in the genre: Annie Get Your Gun,…
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Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree George Clooney in The Monuments Men, with Matt Damon. Produced and written by Good Night, and Good Luck. collaborators George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and directed by Clooney, The Monuments Men is a World War II drama loosely based on…
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Mickey Rooney ca. 1940 Mickey Rooney dead at 93: Four-time Oscar nominee & frequent Judy Garland co-star may have had the longest film career ever Mickey Rooney, four-time Academy Award nominee and one of the biggest domestic box office draws during the studio era, died…
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Mickey Rooney movies on TCM: Music and murder (image: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland ca. 1940) Mickey Rooney is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star today, August 13, 2013. According to the IMDb, Mickey Rooney, who turns 93 next September 23, has been…
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Deanna Durbin in ‘I’ll Be Yours.’ Deanna Durbin dies at 91: One of the top stars of Hollywood’s studio era According to Hollywood lore, teen star Deanna Durbin saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy in the mid-’30s, when her movies earned the Great Depression-hit studio some…
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‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ with James Franco and Michelle Williams. James Franco ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’: Below expectations, but one of biggest March openings ever March 11, ’13, update: Starring James Franco as the magician who becomes The Wizard of Oz, Sam Raimi’s…
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Jodie Foster: Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient Jodie Foster will be the next Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced – by way of Foster’s Panic Room co-star Kristen Stewart and Simon Baker. A two-time Golden Globe winner, Jodie Foster…
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Cuban movie posters: Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Here’s something unusual: hand-silkscreened Cuban posters for Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (right), Costa-Gavras’ Z, Ernesto Daranas Serrano’s Fallen Gods, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and The Shining, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío’s Oscar-nominated Strawberry…
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Meet Me in St. Louis with Margaret O’Brien, Judy Garland Hugh Martin, best known for co-composing with Ralph Blane “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” sung by Judy Garland in Vincente Minnelli’s 1944 classic Meet Me in St. Louis, died on March 10 ’11 in…
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Judy Garland as Dorothy in Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz So, Robert Zemeckis, the guy who brought you Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, What Lies Beneath, The Polar Express, and Beowulf, will not direct a remake…
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Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis, with Judy Garland. For Turner Classic Movies’ Margaret O’Brien Day on Sunday, Aug. 15, TCM will present the television premiere of Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Joke. But then again, I don’t think they’ve shown Meet Me…
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Luise Rainer in Sidney Franklin’s The Good Earth (1937) (top); Richard Bennett, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Don Dillaway, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins in Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (upper middle); Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959)…
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Kristen Stewart: Oscar presence to boost TV ratings? Kristen Stewart & Zac Efron, Taylor Lautner & Miley Cyrus: Oscar presenters Kristen Stewart, Zac Efron, Taylor Lautner, and Miley Cyrus have been added to the roster of presenters at the 2010 Oscar ceremony. This will be…
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Judy Garland in A Star Is Born In his blog, film reviewer Richard Roeper says the following: “When it comes to announcing the Oscar nominees, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences continues to cling to is Old World ways. They race through the…
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“… Far and away the biggest-grossing movie with a female as its sole main player, which is certainly a challenge to conventional Hollywood assumptions (men can star alone, while women need a co-star of either sex).” That’s Sandra Bullock in the 2009 football drama The…
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Christmas cheer: Love Finds Andy Hardy with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. George B. Seitz’s Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) reunited Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry (1937) co-stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland; unlike their first pairing, this slice of what’s often referred to as “Americana” was…
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