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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‘31 Days of Oscar’: TCM’s Movie Comedies Raise Serious Questions
13 minutes read’31 Days of Oscar’: Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) series continues with an eclectic array of 12 comedies that (hopefully) will make you laugh while forcing you to ask some tough …
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Pat O’Brien: Actor was James Cagney Partner was one of Hollywood’s busiest leading men and favorite priest of the studio era.
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Joan Fontaine + Charles Boyer The Constant Nymph Resurfaces
7 minutes readEdmund Goulding’s 1943 romantic drama The Constant Nymph, starring Oscar nominee Joan Fontaine, Charles Boyer, and Alexis Smith, will be shown tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 5 p.m. PT …
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All Quiet on the Western Front with Lew Ayres. Synopsis: World War I: A group of German schoolboys soon learn that war has absolutely nothing to do with either glory …
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Steven Spielberg ‘Jaws’ Oscar Shock + Other Non-Nominated Directors: Biggest Oscar Snubs
8 minutes readMarlon 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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Errol Flynn Movies: Edge of Darkness + Virginia City
4 minutes readErrol Flynn, Roman Bohnen, Ann Sheridan are anti-Nazi fighters in Lewis Milestone’s World War II drama Edge of Darkness (1943) Eleven Errol Flynn movies and a 2005 documentary about the …
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Harold Lloyd Movies: Speedy + Safety Last
6 minutes readHarold Lloyd in Speedy with Ann Christy. Silent-comedy fans will be rejoicing today, Aug. 5, as Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series continues with a day dedicated to …
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Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim in All Quiet on the Western Front. The silent version of the best picture Academy Award winner All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), in …
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Lon Chaney Jr, Burgess Meredith in Of Mice and Men A newly restored sepia-tone print of the 1939 Best Picture nominee Of Mice and Men will be screened in the …
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Harold Lloyd Rare Pictures: Academy Exhibition Showcases Silent Era ‘comic genius’ in rarely seen photos in front of and behind camera.
Shirley MacLaine Movies: The Apartment + Some Came Running
Shirley MacLaine movies: Billy Wilder’s The Apartment with Jack Lemmon. Shirley MacLaine movies: The Apartment & Some Came Running Shirley MacLaine is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star …
Oscar war movies: The Hurt Locker. If Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker wins the Best Picture Academy Award on Sunday, it’ll be the eighth out-and-out war movie …
Rain (1932): Sex Stronger Than God
Rain (movie 1932) review: South Seas sex worker Joan Crawford proves herself a fine dramatic actress and destroyer of pious missionaries in this vastly underrated drama.