TCM film schedule today includes Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in Dark Passage, Eleanor Parker in Caged and two 1980s releases centered on ‘Hispanics.’
Merle Oberon
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Oscar Ceremony 2023: Hugh Grant for Academy Awards Host
20 minutes readOscar 2023: Starring Hugh Grant, the year’s best moment was the one you didn’t see at the ceremony itself, which mostly consisted of tasteless jokes and sheer contempt for film …
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Jimmy Edwards – Outed ‘Conservative’ Gay British Comedian: Q+A with Biographer Slide
14 minutes readJimmy Edwards: Conservative gay British comic known for spanking schoolboys with his cane in TV series + later outed is discussed with biographer Slide.
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Merle Oberon: Glamour Actress with mysterious past dons men’s clothes and fights Nazis, but her private life more dramatic than her films.
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Raymond Massey: Abraham Lincoln & Boris Karloff
7 minutes readRaymond Massey Movies: From Oscar-nominated Abraham Lincoln to Boris Karloff in addition to H.G. Wells visionary and James Dean’s father.
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Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando Leading Lady to spinsters and Mother Roles (Jean Simmons, Sandra Dee) in less than 5 years and The Miracle Worker.
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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014: Two Lives with Liv Ullmann and Julia Bache-Wiig. Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014 semifinalists: Liv Ullmann potential Academy Awards comeback Out of 76 …
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Eleanor Parker movies. Eleanor Parker movies on TCM Palms Springs area resident Eleanor Parker, who turns 91 next June 26, was one of the best actresses of Hollywood’s studio era. …
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Turhan Bey: Actor in Universal’s Technicolor ‘Easterns’
2 minutes readTurhan Bey: 1940s Universal Technicolor fantasy & adventure actor Turhan Bey, best remembered for being featured along with Maria Montez and Jon Hall in a number of Technicolor “Easterns” at …
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Rita Hayworth Movies: Gilda + The Lady from Shanghai
5 minutes readRita Hayworth: Gilda was career peak. Rita Hayworth is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Evening. TCM will be presenting the quintessential Hayworth in Gilda at 5 p.m. PT. That’ll …
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William Wyler: Oscar Top Actors Director
6 minutes readWilliam Wyler was one of the greatest film directors Hollywood – or any other film industry – has ever produced. Today, Wyler lacks the following of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, …
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Doe Avedon: Audrey Hepburn Funny Face Character Inspiration
3 minutes readModel and sometime actress Doe Avedon Siegel, best known for her marriages to photographer Richard Avedon and to Dirty Harry movie director Don Siegel, died Sunday in Los Angeles. She …
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Norman Corwin, best remembered for his World War II programs during the Golden Age of Radio, died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home on Oct. 18. He was …
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George Eastman House Movies: The Reckless Moment and Max Ophüls’ Howard Hughes film noir starring Robert Ryan in character based on bizarre billionaire.
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Miriam Seegar, one of the last surviving adult performers featured in silent films, died of “age-related causes” on Sunday, Jan. 2, at her home in Pasadena, northwest of downtown Los …
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Vivien Leigh Films: The Pre-Gone with the Wind Years
3 minutes readVivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh, one of the greatest performers of the 20th century, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in September. That’s the good news. The bad news: …
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Yul Brynner Movies: The King and I + Solomon and Sheba
2 minutes readYul Brynner has his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Wednesday, Aug. 26. Inevitably, The King and I (1956), the movie that earned Brynner an Academy Award and turned him …
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Merle Oberon Movies: Mysterious Oscar-Nominated Actress Led Intriguing Off-Screen Life
5 minutes readOberon Movies: Mysterious Oscar-nominated actress led intriguing off-screen life rivaling roles she played on the big screen in England and Hollywood.
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Actress Miriam Hopkins: Early image courtesy of Allan Ellenberger. Miriam Hopkins, one of the most underrated performers of the studio era, will have her “Summer Under the Stars” day on …
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Wuthering Heights Movie: Excellent Merle Oberon but hammy Laurence Olivier in Samuel Goldwyn 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominee from Emily Brontë novel.
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‘Hollywood’s Greatest Year’ Revisited: Academy Screenings
2 minutes readBette Davis and Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dark Victory (top); Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (bottom) Academy revisits ‘Hollywood’s Greatest Year’: 10 Best Picture nominees to be screened …
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Miriam Hopkins Biography: Q+A with Author Allan Ellenberger
27 minutes readMiriam Hopkins: Becky Sharp star. Remembering Miriam Hopkins Although relatively forgotten and, when remembered, usually dismissed as a second-rate talent (quite possibly by those who have never seen her on …
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Charles Boyer Movies
9 minutes readCharles Boyer. When I hear the name Charles Boyer, who is currently (July 2008) being honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) with the series “The Discreet …
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Shirley Jones, Ann Rutherford Photos: James Stewart Tribute at the Academy. Also present were Robert Wagner and wife Jill St. John, Anne Jeffreys and others.
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Edmund Goulding: Biographer Matthew Kennedy Discusses Renowned Filmmaker with Controversial Private Life
21 minutes readEdmund Goulding directs a young Joan Crawford in the MGM melodrama Sally, Irene and Mary (1925) at the beginning of their, respectively, directorial and acting careers. Image: Matthew Kennedy Collection. …
British Cinema vs. Hollywood: Q&A with author Anthony Slide about ties between US and UK talent, from Alfred Hitchcock to Harry Potter.
Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay Lovers?
Randolph Scott and Cary Grant ca. 1933: Gay lovers? Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay lovers or good friends and roommates? (See previous post: “Randolph Scott Movies: From Westerns to …
Pickford-Fairbanks Studios’ Mary Pickford Building Destroyed
Mary Pickford Building: The Lot a.k.a. Pickford-Fairbanks Studios Los Angeles just got uglier. Despite protests, the Mary Pickford Building on West Hollywood’s The Lot has been destroyed by its current …
Gay Blackmail Stories: Victim + The Best Man
Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde in Basil Dearden’s Victim. 30 Rock‘s Tracy Morgan is in the news today because of viciously anti-gay remarks he made while performing a comedy routine in …
British-born actress Jean Simmons, who died on Jan. 22 at age 80, will have next Friday evening dedicated to her on Turner Classic Movies. Beginning at 5 p.m. PT, TCM …
Reginald Sheffield (cast as Rudyard Kipling in the film), George Stevens on the set of Gunga Din. Academy revisits George Stevens’ 1939 classic Gunga Din George Stevens’ proudly “politically incorrect” …
Rita Hayworth in Gilda. Rita Hayworth & Fred Astaire movies Friday-Saturday, Aug. 15–16, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Since TCM is currently leasing Columbia’s library, this year’s Rita Hayworth Day …