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 with Sleeper Blockbuster Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
13 minutes readHoward 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 & Downs Emblematic of Genre Woes in 1950s Hollywood
14 minutes readHoward 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 Movies: Universal Savior Remembered
38 minutes readDeanna 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 Movies: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers + Show Boat
14 minutes readHoward 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: Show Boat + Mogambo
20 minutes readAva 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 Movies: Show Boat + Kiss Me Kate
4 minutes readKathryn 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: Kiss Me Kate & Show Boat Actress-Singer
4 minutes readKathryn 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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Golden Age Actresses Video Homage
2 minutes readhttps://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 Movies: Crossfire + The Big Heat Tough Siren
6 minutes readGloria 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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Van Johnson: The Gay Boy Next Door
8 minutes readIf 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: Two-Time Oscar-Nominated Actor
4 minutes readJames 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 + Jack Palance Movies: Les Girls + The Big Knife
8 minutes readGene 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: The Strong, Singing Type Embodied Rugged American Virility in Mid-Century MGM Musicals
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 Movies: On the Town + Some Came Running
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: 1940s ‘Latin Lover’ + Star Trek ‘Khan’
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 …