Author Allan R. Ellenberger discusses Miriam Hopkins in the interview further below – and in his Hopkins biography Life and Films of a Hollywood Rebel. From pre-Code antiheroine to matronly…
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Claudette Colbert and Maurice Chevalier in The Smiling Lieutenant. Claudette Colbert movies: From ‘The Smiling Lieutenant’ to ‘Skylark’ Claudette Colbert, the studio era’s perky, independent-minded – and French-born – “all-American”…
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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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Bette Davis: Actress in The Old Maid with off-screen “rival” Miriam Hopkins. Bette Davis, Warner Bros.’ top female box office attraction from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s, is Turner…
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Ray Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard in Reap the Wild Wind Debonair Ray Milland is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in April 2011. This evening, beginning at…
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William Gargan, Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue in Stephen Roberts’ The Story of Temple Drake Cinefest 2011, a four-day festival of rare American films, kicked off earlier today in Syracuse,…
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Paul Henreid in Casablanca, with Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, and Humphrey Bogart. Bogart and Rains were nominated for their performances in the Michael Curtiz-directed Best Picture Oscar winner. Bergman was…
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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…
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Errol Flynn, Roman Bohnen, Ann Sheridan are anti-Nazi fighters in Lewis Milestone’s World War II drama Edge of Darkness (1943) Eleven Errol Flynn movies and a 2005 documentary about the…
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June Lockhart and Malcolm McDowell at Academy exhibition of Best Picture Oscar nominees posters: ‘Lost in Space’ meets ‘A Clockwork Orange.’ Veterans June Lockhart and Malcolm McDowell: Academy’s exhibition of…
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3D: Film history repeats itself. Picture above: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with Rupert Grint. (Jaap Buitendijk / Warner Bros.). ‘Hatty Potter’ & ‘Clash of the Titans’ in 3D:…
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Anne V. Coates: Film editor. ‘Perspectives on Editing’: Animation Sept. 23: The art and craft of editing animated films will be explored in the second installment of the Academy of…
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Claude Rains, one of the finest actors of the studio era – in fact, one of the finest film actors of the 20th century – is Turner Classic Movies’ Star…
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Oberon ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ mystery: Tasmanian- or Indian-born Hollywood and British cinema star? ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ for movie fans: Merle Oberon day on TCM Ravishing beauty Merle Oberon,…