Legendary Broadway actor John Barrymore also enjoyed an impressive and enduring – yet vastly undervalued – movie career in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Independence Day movies: Exuberant all-white all-Iowan marching band + lovely and talented Joan Leslie + racist British imperialism salute.
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Kay Francis. Kay Francis revisited: One of the brightest & most underrated Hollywood stars of the 1930s Kay Francis is the star of the day (April 9) on Turner Classic…
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Jean Arthur Films: 3 Frank Capra Classics Starring Progressive-Minded Actress that was 1 of the greatest performers during the studio era.
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Mickey Rooney ca. 1940 Mickey Rooney dead at 93: Four-time Oscar nominee & frequent Judy Garland co-star may have had the longest film career ever Mickey Rooney, four-time Academy Award…
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It’s a Wonderful Life sequel? Donna Reed and James Stewart star in Oscar-nominated 1946 Frank Capra classic. Paramount to drown ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sequel? What would the world be…
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Hattie McDaniel. Hattie McDaniel: First black performer to win an Academy Award One of the best and, despite nearly 100 film appearances, most poorly utilized actresses of the studio era…
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Lionel Barrymore movies: Rare Night Flight. Lionel Barrymore movies on TCM. (Image: Lionel Barrymore [right] You Can’t Take It with You, with Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, and James Stewart.) Lionel…
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He Who Gets Slapped with Lon Chaney Lon Chaney is one of the most fascinating movie stars in film history. Throughout the 1920s, Chaney was one the biggest box office…
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Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins, Lionel Barrymore as Billy Bones in Victor Fleming’s Treasure Island Jackie Cooper, a Best Actor Academy Award nominee at the age of 9, has died.…
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John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil. Just a few days ago I was wondering if Turner Classic Movies would devote a day to the likes of…
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Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis, with Judy Garland. For Turner Classic Movies’ Margaret O’Brien Day on Sunday, Aug. 15, TCM will present the television premiere of Meet Me…
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Robert Taylor is April 2010’s Star of the Month on Turner Classic Movies. The Robert Taylor Tuesday evening has already begun: Camille (1937), in which he co-stars with Greta Garbo,…
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Stanley Kramer in “Film-Making with Spencer Tracy” (essay found in The Films of Spencer Tracy): “I can’t explain why I was never able to say to him what I wanted…
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Jack Neely’s “The Forgotten Director: Who was Clarence Brown?” at Metro Pulse: “Dr. Gwenda Young, a film-studies professor at University College Cork, came across [Clarence] Brown by an unlikely route.…
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This evening, Friday, June 29, Turner Classic Movies will screen three creepies: The Unholy Three (1925), West of Zanzibar (1928), and Vampyr – Der Traum des Allan Grey / The…
Drew Barrymore sister Jessica Barrymore. Drew Barrymore half-sister Jessica Barrymore found dead near San Diego Drew Barrymore’s half-sister Jessica Barrymore was found dead in her car early Tuesday, July 29,…
Gregory Peck. Gregory Peck movies: Memorable miscasting in David O. Selznick’s Western Gregory Peck is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star on Aug. 15. TCM is currently showing…
Greer Garson: Best Actress Oscar Nomination Record Tie with Bette Davis in the 1940s, a feat not yet surpassed even by Meryl Streep.
J’accuse!: Abel Gance Anti-War Classic restoration and Lon Chaney + Bimbo the Gibbon and best Buster Keaton movie? All at San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Argentina Brunetti: It’s a Wonderful Life actress remembered + The Night Porter and Swimming Pool star Charlotte Rampling is Berlin Festival Jury President.