Citizen Kane and Song of the South actress Ruth Warrick became All My Children snob Phoebe Tyler and a Confederate flag critic.
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San Andreas movie with Dwayne Johnson: California nightmare. San Andreas movie box office: $100 million domestic milestone today As the old saying (sort of) goes: If you build it, they…
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Simone Simon and Jean Gabin in ‘La Bête Humaine.’ Simone Simon in ‘La Bête Humaine’ 1938: Jean Renoir’s film noir (See previous post: “‘Cat People’ 1942 Actress Simone Simon Remembered.”)…
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Polly Bergen became the “first U.S. woman president” in the 1964 comedy Kisses for My President. Polly Bergen movies: ‘First woman U.S. president’ dead at 84 Emmy Award-winning actress Polly…
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Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert: Pulitzer winner, TV star-critic, humanistic Twitter voice has died Roger Ebert, probably the best known movie critic in the United States, died earlier today in Chicago,…
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Myrna Loy biography: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood Myrna Loy: All-American wife and mother – and more Many believe that Myrna Loy is the best American actress never to…
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Earthquake 1974. A major seismic burp destroys Los Angeles in Mark Robson’s 1974 mix of cheesy melodrama and special-effects fest: Earthquake, in which an all-star cast – from Moses and…
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David Nelson, best remembered as the older brother in the long-running television show The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952–66), died on Jan. 11 in Los Angeles. He was 74.…
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Dorothy Malone ca. late 1940s. After years playing bits and supporting roles at RKO and Warner Bros., Dorothy Malone became a “leading lady” – sometimes co-leading lady – in the…
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Young Paul Newman in Martin Ritt’s Hud. Twelve Paul Newman movies on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday, Aug. 21, as part of TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” series. (See Paul…
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Gloria Grahame in Crossfire. In films, Grahame usually came across as vulgar, sleazy, and untrustworthy – and I mean that as a compliment; in my book, shady movie characters have…
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Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall in The Cobweb. Monday, Aug. 11, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Of the Richard Widmark vehicles that I’ve seen, the best one by far is…
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Satirical novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author of the bestselling anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five, died Wednesday, April 11. According to his wife, photographer Jill Krementz, Vonnegut had suffered brain injuries after a…
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Chávez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story. As found in the description of photographer Don Normark’s book Chávez Ravine, 1949: A Los Angeles Story, in 1949 he “walked up into the…
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…
Susannah York in Robert Altman’s Images. Susannah York, one of the best (and best-looking) performers of the 1960s and 1970s, died today. York’s son, Orlando Wells (the Duke of Kent…
Robert Ryan in Robert Wise’s The Set-Up. Robert Ryan, one of the most effective Hollywood actors of the studio era – or any other era – will have his Turner…
Marjoe Gortner, “Evangelism’s answer to Mick Jagger,” as seen in the poster of the 1972 documentary Marjoe. Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith’s Oscar-winning film about Evangelical Christian scammers shows how…