Lena Horne. Lena Horne movies: Velvety-voiced singer generally relegated to specialty numbers during heyday of the Hollywood musical Had things been different, it’s anybody’s guess whether or not three-time Grammy…
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Howard Keel height of career as a result of sleeper blockbuster that helped to revive his Hollywood standing after three consecutive MGM musical flops.
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MGM musicals box office struggle: Howard Keel Hollywood woes included 2 prestigious star vehicles that *should* have succeeded. Could his career be saved?
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Howard Keel musicals: Box office ups and downs emblematic of genre’s erratic appeal in 1950s Hollywood as a result of dramatic socio-economic changes.
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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…
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Howard Keel, best remembered for MGM musicals such as Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, is Turner Classic Movies’ next-to-last “Summer Under the Stars” star.…
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Ava Gardner with Burt Lancaster in Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir The Killers. Ava Gardner is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of November. The Gardner film series begins…
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Kathryn Grayson in Kiss Me Kate, with Howard Keel. Kathryn Grayson, who died at the age of 88 last February, is Turner Classic Movies’ Tuesday, Aug. 10, star. Kathryn Grayson…
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Kathryn Grayson, the soprano-voiced star of Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and several other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals of the 1940s and early 1950s, died yesterday (Feb. 17) in her…
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https://youtu.be/Ki94_VlOGI0Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Forgotten Actresses Any Other World (https://youtu.be/Ki94_VlOGI0) Remembering actresses of the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood What better way to start the New…
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Gloria Grahame in Crossfire. In films, Grahame usually came across as vulgar, sleazy, and untrustworthy – and I mean that as a compliment; in my book, shady movie characters have…
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If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may be wondering why the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre will devote the evening of Feb. 26 to screen two movies as…
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James Whitmore, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy- and Tony-winning actor whose career spanned six decades, died of lung cancer at his Malibu home yesterday, Feb. 6., ’09. He was 87. Though…
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Gene Kelly in Les Girls with Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg. Gene Kelly and Jack Palance: Sunday-Monday, Aug. 17–18, highlights on Turner Classic Movies. Gene Kelly and Jack…
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Beverly Tyler: Actress in MGM films of the 1940s (The Green Years + The Beginning or the End) whose career suffered after losing role to Janet Leigh.
Howard Keel: Actor-singer embodied brawny American manliness in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals of the 1950s such as Annie Get Your Gun + Show Boat.
Zsa Zsa Gabor. Actress-celebrity Zsa Zsa Gabor, 93, has asked for a priest to read her the last rites according to various reports. Gabor remains in critical condition at Los…
Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin in On the Town. Bobby-soxer-turned-blue-haired-matron idol Frank Sinatra will have his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Friday, Aug. 28. Turner Classic Movies will…
Ricardo Montalban, who co-starred in several 1940s MGM musicals and later played the mysterious host in the long-running 1970s TV series Fantasy Island, died this morning at his Los Angeles…