Anthony Slide q+a: The film historian discusses his new anthology book The Truth at Twenty-Four Frames per Second. Topics range from Lillian Gish to Betty White.
Kirk Douglas
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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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4th of July Movies: From our dystopian present to John Paul Jones + Benedict Arnold and other complex American Revolutionary War figures.
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Kirk Douglas: Hollywood star of the 1950s and 1960s. Kirk Douglas movies: Theatrical, larger than life performances Kirk Douglas, a three-time Best Actor Academy Award nominee and one of the…
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James Farentino, best remembered for the television series The Bold Ones: The Lawyers and Dynasty, died at age 73 on Jan. 24 in Los Angeles. A Brooklyn native (born on…
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Norman Corwin, best remembered for his World War II programs during the Golden Age of Radio, died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home on Oct. 18. He was…
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Kirk Douglas is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of September. Though hardly a great film actor – or even a good one – Douglas has had one of…
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Jean Simmons. Jean Simmons, the beautiful actress who was nominated for Oscars for her work in Hamlet (1948) and The Happy Ending (1969), died on Jan. 22 at her home…
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Gordon Willis, Roger Corman, and Lauren Bacall: Honorary Oscars. Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as The Godfather: Part II, All the President’s Men, and The Purple Rose of…
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Early Oscar Predictions: Penélope Cruz in Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces. Oscar Early Predictions: Michelle Pfeiffer Best Actress Contender? Abbie Cornish, Bright Star Frances ‘Fanny’ Brawne has a relatively brief but…
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Richard Quine. Although he directed a number of popular comedies and dramas at Columbia in the 1950s and 1960s, Richard Quine’s name barely registers today. That is unfortunate, for Quine,…
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More than 70 original movie posters and lobby cards for Barbara Stanwyck movies will be on display in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new exhibition, “Presenting Miss…
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Versatile Hollywood director Richard Fleischer, at his best handling action films and suspense thrillers, died yesterday of “natural causes” at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in the Los Angeles…
Deborah Raffin: Movie & TV actress + Dove audio-book entrepreneur dead at 59 Deborah Raffin, film and television actress, and Dove Books on Tape co-founder, at age 59 on Nov.…
Patricia Norris. Patricia Norris: Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award Production Designer and Costume Designer Patricia Norris, a frequent David Lynch collaborator, will receive the Art Directors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement…
Unlike Michael Jackson’s sudden death, Farrah Fawcett’s didn’t come as a surprise. For quite some time, Fawcett had been suffering from a rare form of cancer that had recently spread…
Warner’s Doris Day DVD Collection box set include several of the bright star’s biggest hits – comedies and musicals – and even one of her rare (big-budget) flops.