Carla Laemmle. ‘Dracula’ 1931 actress Carla Laemmle dead at 104 Carla Laemmle, a bit player in a handful of silent movies and at the dawn of the sound era –…
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Joan Lorring in ‘Three Strangers’ Joan Lorring dead at 88: ‘The Corn Is Green’ performer was one of the earliest surviving Academy Award nominees in the acting categories Best Supporting…
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Janet Leigh Psycho star Janet Leigh, born Jeanette Helen Morrison on July 6, 1927, in Merced, California, would have turned 85 today. Despite a film and television career spanning more…
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Hal Kanter (see photo at Bette Davis tribute), creator of the groundbreaking TV series Julia, starring Diahann Carroll (photo) as a nurse, died at age 92 on Nov. 6 in…
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Ben Johnson isn’t exactly what one would call a movie icon; Johnson isn’t even a Western icon, despite his presence in numerous Old (and not-so-Old) West movies during his 50+-year…
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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…
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Dean Martin would have turned 94 years old on Tuesday, June 7. Generally a somnolent presence in low-brow comedies co-starring either Jerry Lewis or Frank Sinatra, Martin was at his…
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Made with schlocker fanatics in mind, the 1966 psychobabbling thriller Picture Mommy Dead is notable for its cast (Don Ameche, Zsa Zsa Gabor, etc.).
Margaret Field, best remembered for the 1951 B sci-fier The Man From Planet X, died at her Malibu home on Sunday, Nov. 6, the day her daughter Sally Field turned…
Arthur Penn epoch-making crime drama Bonnie and Clyde with Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty, and Faye Dunaway. Arthur Penn, who died of congestive heart failure at his New York City home…