Ben-Hur 2016 Trailer: Jews for Jesus in Fast and Furious, CGI-filled version of religious epic with Jack Huston mimicking Christian Bale Batman voice.
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Ben-Hur 1959 with Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston: TCM’s ’31 Days of Oscar.’ ’31 Days of Oscar’: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Ben-Hur’ in, Paramount stars out Today, Feb. 1, Turner…
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Ben-Hur movie: Christian epic was biggest and most expensive Blockbuster until Gone with the Wind. Mexican Ramon Novarro played Jewish hero.
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Yvonne Craig: Batgirl a.k.a. Barbara Gordon in cult TV series. Batgirl Yvonne Craig dead at 78: Also featured in ‘Star Trek’ episode & Elvis Presley movies Yvonne Craig, best known…
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Mary Anderson: Gone with the Wind actress. ‘Gone with the Wind’ actress Mary Anderson dead at 96; also featured in Alfred Hitchcock thriller ‘Lifeboat’ Mary Anderson, an actress featured in…
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Lon McCallister: Boy-Next-Door troubled gay relationship with William Eythe If remembered at all, Lon McCallister is associated with Boy-Next-Door roles in several 20th Century Fox “family” movies of the mid-…
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True Grit 2010 movie review: Far superior to the 1969 John Wayne version, as Joel and Ethan Coen Western is much more than the sum of its parts.
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Carole Lombard, Fredric March in a Nothing Sacred publicity shot. Fredric March has his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Monday, Aug. 24. Turner Classic Movies will present 13 Fredric…
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Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter. Friday, Aug. 22, highlights on Turner Classic Movies (TCM): I’m not all that familiar with Trevor Howard’s career as a star. I’ve…
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William Holden in Picnic with Kim Novak. At Moving Images Source, Michael Atkinson discusses William Holden in “St. Bill of Illinois”: As per Atkinson, William Holden was “on the surface…
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Novelist and playwright Joseph Hayes, best known for his stage and film adaptations of his 1954 suspense novel The Desperate Hours, died this past Sept. 11 at a nursing home…
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Ben-Hur 1959 Charlton Heston. ‘Ben-Hur’ 1959 & 1925 on DVD: Charlton Heston & Ramon Novarro movies Ben-Hur, both the 1959 and 1925 versions starring, respectively, Charlton Heston and Ramon Novarro,…
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Christophe Barratier’s boys school drama The Chorus is an unabashedly sentimental rehash of numerous other such tales (e.g., Going My Way).
Teresa Wright ca. 1945. Teresa Wright movies on TCM: ‘The Little Foxes,’ ‘The Pride of the Yankees’ Pretty, talented Teresa Wright made a relatively small number of movies: 28 in…
June Lockhart and Lauren Hutton, Malcolm McDowell and Mickey Rooney: Multiple movie eras merge at Academy’s exhibition.
Front row (left to right): Herbert Biberman, attorneys Martin Popper and Robert W. Kenny, Albert Maltz, Lester Cole. Middle row: Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Samuel Ornitz. Back…