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 …
Margaret Sullavan
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Melvyn Douglas. Melvyn Douglas: From suave leading man to Hollywood’s top female stars to first-rate dramatic actor Unlike Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, or Gary Cooper, Melvyn Douglas couldn’t exactly be …
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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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Norma Shearer: Queen of MGM and the movies’ Early Liberated Woman often played roles well ahead of both their and our own time.
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Eleanor Parker. Eleanor Parker dead at 91: ‘The Sound of Music’ actress, three-time Best Actress Oscar nominee Eleanor Parker, one of the best and most beautiful actresses of the studio …
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Irene Dunne. Irene Dunne movies: Five-time Best Actress Academy Award nominee starred in now-forgotten originals of well-remembered remakes For over a decade a couple of dozen Irene Dunne movies have …
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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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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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‘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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Joan Blondell and Dick Powell in Dames The fact that Warner Bros. contract actress Joan Blondell never became a top box office draw says more about audiences – who preferred, …
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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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Claudette Colbert Paramount star Those who remember Claudette Colbert, Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” featured player today, will likely picture a woman raising her skirt so as to …
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Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in It Happened One Night. Mostly a Paramount star, Claudette Colbert hasn’t been a frequent presence on Turner Classic Movies – that is, apart from …
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I mentioned dignified, gentlemanly, and usually a little dull Walter Pidgeon the other day, wishing he had been cast as Jane Powell’s grandfather in A Date with Judy (1948) so …
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Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Airplane! Robert Stack is one of those actors I know but at the same time I don’t. I’ve watched many of his movies, but despite his …
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Olivia de Havilland. Olivia de Havilland is the subject of an interview published in the London Evening Standard about a week ago. The piece is a must-read. Discussed are de …
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The first Hollywood actor to lampoon Hitler? A few years ago, in the San Diego Jewish Journal Lynn Rapaport discussed the first Hollywood comedian to play Adolf Hitler on film. …
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Hollywood Home Movies: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart (top); Esther Williams (bottom). Rarely seen home movies from the personal collections of Alfred Hitchcock, Esther Williams (above), Steve McQueen, Lauren Bacall …
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If remembered at all, the name Franchot Tone usually comes up only when someone lists Joan Crawford’s series of husbands. Never mind the fact that Franchot Tone appeared in about …
Robert Redford: The Great Gatsby 1974 was 1 of biggest artistic misfires of the decade and Redford was part of the problem.
Gay Movie Scenes: Paul America in Andy Warhol’s My Hustler. Controversial Gay Movie Scenes at LACMA: Andy Warhol & Gus Van Sant + Jean Genet Whether or not you find …
Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Clark Gable in Forsaking All Others. Joan Crawford is Turner Classic Movies’ next “Summer Under the Stars” star. On Monday, Aug. 22, TCM will be …
Friendly Persuasion with Dorothy McGuire, Gary Cooper, and Anthony Perkins. William Wyler’s rural-19th-century-set, coming-of-age family drama Friendly Persuasion (1956) has several elements in common with Clarence Brown’s rural-19th-century-set, period coming-of-age …
https://youtu.be/Ki94_VlOGI0Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Forgotten Actresses Any Other World (https://youtu.be/Ki94_VlOGI0) Remembering actresses of the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood What better way to start the New …