Oscars’ war movies: Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Academy Award-themed series continues with nine features, including two Best Picture winners and three nominees.
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The Poseidon Adventure actress Carol Lynley should also be remembered for a landmark teen pregnancy drama and for a first-rate British thriller.
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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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Rebecca 1940: Alfred Hitchcock Oscar Winner starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine returns to Brazil – place of plagiarism controversy.
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Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson in That Hamilton Woman (1941). Vivien Leigh biography, movies + photo exhibit among centenary celebrations [See previous post: “Vivien …
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Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh: Legendary ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ star would have turned 100 today Vivien Leigh was perhaps the greatest film star that hardly …
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Rebecca remake in the works? Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 original – based on a novel by Daphne Du Maurier – starred Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier. Hollywood has been running out …
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Jean Simmons in Hamlet with Laurence Olivier. Star of the Month Jean Simmons is back on Turner Classic Movies this Tuesday evening, with five more films. Like last week, these …
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Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard in Mutiny on the Bounty 1962: Veteran director Lewis Miletone bypassed. Previous post: Biggest Oscar Snubs: Michael Nyman for The Piano, Lee Smith for Inception, …
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Miriam Seegar, one of the last surviving adult performers featured in silent films, died of “age-related causes” on Sunday, Jan. 2, at her home in Pasadena, northwest of downtown Los …
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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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Wuthering Heights Movie: Excellent Merle Oberon but hammy Laurence Olivier in Samuel Goldwyn 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominee from Emily Brontë novel.
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Bette Davis and Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dark Victory (top); Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (bottom) Academy revisits ‘Hollywood’s Greatest Year’: 10 Best Picture nominees to be screened …
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Charlton Heston movies: Ben-Hur 1959. It’s Charlton Heston Movies Day on Thursday, Aug. 28, on Turner Classic Movies. Charlton Heston was a graduate cum laude of the Paul Muni School …
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Jack Palance in Shane. Philip French in The Guardian: “From the start, the movies welcomed into their midst the mustachioed villain of Victorian melodrama, leaving subtler antagonists to literary fiction …
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Geraldine Fitzgerald: Renowned movie, stage, and TV actress has died Geraldine Fitzgerald, veteran stage and screen actress among whose film credits are Wuthering Heights, Wilson, Harry and Tonto, and the …
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Marathon Man (1976) review: Proudly evil Nazi Laurence Olivier Is easily the best thing about John Schlesinger’s outlandish political thriller.
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Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) review: The last of the Romanovs are at the center of William Friedkin’s lavish but conventional historical drama.
Henry V Movie (1944) Actress Renée Asherson: Laurence Olivier’s Leading Lady was London stage star married to Oscar winner Robert Donat.
Laurence Olivier = Kenneth Branagh in My Week with Marilyn. Once upon a time, Kenneth Branagh was hailed as the new Laurence Olivier. Back in early 1990, Branagh was nominated …
Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh, one of the greatest performers of the 20th century, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in September. That’s the good news. The bad news: …
Cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff, one of the early masters of color cinematography, has died. He was 94. (Image: Peter Ustinov in Death on the Nile, shot by Jack Cardiff.) Cardiff’s …
Christopher Fry dead at 97: The Lady’s Not Burning playwright & Ben-Hur screenplay contributor British playwright and screenwriter Christopher Fry died on June 30 at a hospital in Chichester, in …