Marília Pêra: Brazilian actress was featured as the foul-mouthed prostitute in the international hit ‘Pixote.’ Marília Pêra: Brazilian film, TV and stage star Remembering Brazilian stage, television, and film star…
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Katharine Hepburn movies. Katharine Hepburn movies: Woman in drag, in love, in danger In case you’re suffering from insomnia, you might want to spend your night and early morning watching…
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Howard Hughes movies: The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio. Howard Hughes movies Turner Classic Movies will be showing the Howard Hughes-produced, John Farrow-directed, Baja California-set gangster drama His Kind of Woman,…
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Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence in David Lean’s ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ Peter O’Toole: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ actor & eight-time Oscar nominee Stage, film, and television actor Peter O’Toole, an eight-time…
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The Iron Petticoat with Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope. Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope: ‘The Iron Petticoat’ TCM premiere Starring Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope, The Iron Petticoat became a movie…
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Turhan Bey: 1940s Universal Technicolor fantasy & adventure actor Turhan Bey, best remembered for being featured along with Maria Montez and Jon Hall in a number of Technicolor “Easterns” at…
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A Bill of Divorcement with Katharine Hepburn and David Manners: 1932 George Cukor drama. George Cukor ‘gay Woman’s Director’? Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his…
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Lucille Ball: The glamour look. Unlike Robert Taylor, who would have turned 100 today, or Ginger Rogers, whose centennial was last July 16, Lucille Ball is actually going to be…
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Filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis, best known for the 1964 Oscar-nominated drama Zorba the Greek, died of complications from a heart attack and chronic respiratory problems early Monday at an Athens hospital.…
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Turner Classic Movies: Dysfunctional-Family-Oriented Christmas Films + Katharine Hepburn Double Dose
Turner Classic Movies presents Katharine Hepburn in Little Women 1933: Up to the Christmas Day viewer to decide whether George Cukor’s Best Picture Academy Award nominee is immensely moving or…
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I Remember Mama with Irene Dunne, Philip Dorn, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Brown: George Stevens immigrant family drama. George Stevens’ film series on Turner Classic Movies continues tonight with a…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Movies & Gina Lollobrigida + ‘Mare Nostrum’ & ‘Serious’ 1950s Hollywood Classics
Tender Is the Night with Jennifer Jones. Henry King’s 1962 movie adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1934 novel – screenplay by Ivan Moffat – starred Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer…
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Vivien Leigh death on film: Tragic fate in Anna Karenina 1948. Turner Classic Movies’ Vivien Leigh series comes to a close on Tuesday, Sept. 28, with four movies from Leigh’s…
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Cammie King: ‘Gone with the Wind’ child actress has died Cammie King, Rhett Butler’s daughter Bonnie in Gone with the Wind, died of lung cancer in Fort Bragg, Calif., on…
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Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor’s Adam’s Rib. Home movies of scary folk such as Alfred Hitchcock and Richard Nixon (and of some non-scary celebrities and non-celebrities as well),…
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Katharine Hepburn movies: ‘The Philadelphia Story’ & ‘Woman of the Year’ were Hollywood career turning points. Katharine Hepburn in ‘The Philadelphia Story,’ ‘Woman of the Year’: Movie career landmarks on…
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James Dean in Giant: George Stevens sprawling Texas-set 1956 family drama. George Stevens will be the star attraction of Turner Classic Movies’ Monday evenings in April. The series begins tonight…
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Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor’s Adam’s Rib Raquel Welch is the guest programmer tonight on Turner Classic Movies. Welch and Robert Osborne will be introducing and…
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Ginger Rogers. Ginger Rogers’ last Star of the Month evening begins on March 31 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time on Turner Classic Movies. Among the Rogers classics on TCM’s schedule…
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Movie Star Stamps: Katharine Hepburn + Pioneering Black Filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and movie cowboys William S. Hart and Tom Mix + Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.
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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…
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Classic Christmas movies: Remember the Night with Barbara Stanwyck and Beulah Bondi. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, and featuring two-time Best…
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Carole Lombard, Fredric March in a Nothing Sacred publicity shot. Fredric March has his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Monday, Aug. 24. Turner Classic Movies will present 13 Fredric…
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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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Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman, and Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue. Sidney Poitier’s “Summer Under the Stars” day is Friday, Aug. 14. Turner Classic Movies will have no Sidney…
Bryan Forbes. Bryan Forbes has died: Katharine Hepburn & Leslie Caron + the original ‘The Stepford Wives’ director Director Bryan Forbes, whose films include the then-daring The L-Shaped Room, the…
Meryl Streep Best Actress Oscar: When Margaret Thatcher stares back, need for Women’s Museum and faulty Academy Award history knowledge.
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 &…
Gloria Stuart in a publicity shot from the 1930s (top); Gloria Stuart as Old Rose in Titanic (bottom) Gloria Stuart, the pretty, blonde leading lady in the Universal horror classics…
Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in The Talk of the Town (top); Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year (bottom). Actor Cary Grant collaborated with director George…
Whitewashing in Hollywood: Ramon Novarro, Helen Hayes, and Louise Closser Hale as Chinese nationals in The Son-Daughter. The ethnic controversy surrounding the casting of Gérard Depardieu as Alexandre Dumas in…
Grace Kelly. Stating the obvious: most people take great pleasure in idealizing their idols – which is why idols are idols. Whether we’re talking of gods, saints, prophets, or pop…