Jimmy Stewart. ‘Jimmy’ Stewart: Unlikely Hollywood star enjoyed decades-long career in a variety of genres The personification of all-American aw-shucksiness – of the sort you find only in bad movies …
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Blake Edwards Movies: The Pink Panther filmmaker at his best directing not slapstick but more refined comedies and surprisingly effective serious dramas.
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I Want to Live Screenwriter Don Mankiewicz Dead: Father Was Citizen Kane screenwriter while filmmaking uncle was multiple Oscar winner.
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James Garner. James Garner movies: ‘Grand Prix’ & ‘Victor Victoria’ among TCM highlights James Garner, whose film and television career spanned more than five decades, died of “natural causes” at …
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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. …
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Howards End with Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins: Music by Richard Robbins. ‘Howards End’ composer Richard Robbins has died Richard Robbins, two-time Academy Award-nominated composer and frequent James Ivory-Ismail Merchant …
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‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Oscar-winning screenwriter Frank Pierson has died Former Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Frank Pierson, among whose screenwriting credits are Dog Day Afternoon, A Star …
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A Face in the Crowd (movie 1957) review: A hammy Andy Griffith and a didactic Budd Schulberg hinder Elia Kazan’s political drama with Patricia Neal and Anthony Franciosa.
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According to various online sources, Tasmanian-born director Don Sharp has died at age 89. A former small-time actor (The Planter’s Wife, The Cruel Sea), Sharp (born April 19, 1922, in …
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James Stewart remains one of the most beloved film actors in Hollywood history. Well, at least in the United States, where Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith …
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Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset in The Sweet Ride. Michael Sarrazin, best known for his role as Jane Fonda’s marathon-dancing partner in Sydney Pollack’s 1969 drama They Shoot Horses, Don’t …
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Blake Edwards tribute: Shamelessly Sanitized Breakfast at Tiffany’s + Near-Anomaly Victor Victoria with Robert Preston as flamboyantly gay scene-stealer.
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Lee Remick. Great news for Lee Remick fans: eleven of her movies will be shown on Thursday, Aug. 26, on Turner Classic Movies. Remick Day is part of TCM’s “Summer …
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Claire Bloom, one of the most talented and most striking actresses of her generation, will have her “Summer Under the Stars” day on Monday, Aug. 31. Handpicked by Charles Chaplin …
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Betsy Blair, best known for her Academy Award-nominated performance as Ernest Borgnine’s love interest in the 1955 Oscar- and Palme d’Or-winning drama Marty, and for her marriage to Gene Kelly, …
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Paul Scofield in A Delicate Balance with Katharine Hepburn. Benedict Nightingale’s “Paul Scofield: an overlooked acting great” in The [London] Times: “Why didn’t most theatregoers think of Paul Scofield in …
Jack Klugman and Tony Randall: The Odd Couple. Jack Klugman dead at 90: ‘The Odd Couple’ & ‘Quincy M.E.’ actor Jack Klugman, best known for the television series The Odd …
Ben Gazzara, who was featured on Broadway in the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and in movies by the likes of John Cassavetes, Otto Preminger, and Peter Bogdanovich, …
Silvio Narizzano, best known for the Swinging London comedy-drama Georgy Girl, died July 26. Narizzano was 84. Based on Margaret Forster’s novel, and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, James Mason, …
Adele Mara, a 1940s Hollywood actress best remembered for her leading-lady role in the John Wayne war melodrama Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and for playing one of Rita Hayworth’s …
Otto Preminger film noir Laura with Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” will be hosted by filmmaker …