Considering everything that’s been happening on the planet in the last several months, you’d have thought we’re already in November or December – of 2117. But no. It’s only June.…
Mitchell Leisen
Olivia de Havilland vs. Warner Bros.: Landmark Lawsuit changed U.S. labor laws and paved the way for 2 Best Actress Oscars. She turns 100 this year.
Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett Movies as screenwriters and sometimes director or producer include dozen classic Hollywood films.
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…
Joan Fontaine. Joan Fontaine today: One of the best actresses of the studio era has her ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day Joan Fontaine, one of the few surviving movie stars…
Betty Hutton. Betty Hutton: Paramount’s Troubled Blonde Bombshell Energetic, electric, exuberant, effusive, brassy, spunky, hyper, manic – these are all qualities that could (and most likely have been) used to…
Movie extras, bit players and stand-ins: Film historian Anthony Slide lecture at the historical Lasky-DeMille Barn (image: Olivia de Havilland and her The Charge of the Light Brigade stand-in, Ann…
Carole Lombard: Screwball comedienne and dramatic actress of the 1930s. Best remembered for her light comedies of the 1930s and early 1940s, Carole Lombard is Turner Classic Movies Star of…
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…
Ray Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard in Reap the Wild Wind. Ray Milland movies on TCM Debonair Ray Milland is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in April…
Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven In my view, Gene Tierney was not only one of the most beautiful but also one of the most underrated…
Remember the Night: Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray learn about love’s corruptive and redemptive power of in Mitchell Leisen’s Christmas Classic.
Classic Christmas Movies: Remember the Night Returns and Largely Forgotten Oscar Nominee + Maria Ouspenskaya and 3 matchmaking ghosts.
To Each His Own (1946) movie review: Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland creates a shrewd portrayal in Mitchell Leisen’s heartfelt melodrama.
The Thief of Bagdad 1924: Douglas Fairbanks’ classic was 1 of costliest silent films + rumored to have had leading lady replaced by actor’s jealous wife.
Cecil B. DeMille’s The Godless Girl is a thoughtful theological drama that will convert even the most hardened of cynics. Lina Basquette stars.
Thelma Ritter publicity shot ca. early 1950s. Thelma Ritter: Six-time Oscar nominee would have turned 101 today Six-time Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee Thelma Ritter, who was born on…
Actor Keith Andes Commits Suicide: Marilyn Monroe Romantic Interest in 1952 movie also featured in musicals and Star Trek TV series.
Winner of two Oscars, Olivia de Havilland getting Academy Tribute Best actress Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland with presenter Ray Milland at the 1947 Academy Awards ceremony. © A.M.P.A.S.…
Fred MacMurray: The All-American jerk in movies such as Double Indemnity and The Apartment. Fred MacMurray movies: ‘Double Indemnity’ & There’s Always Tomorrow’ Fred MacMurray is Turner Classic Movies’ 2013…
Rare movies: Director Allan Dwan, actor George O’Brien, cinematographer George Webber on the set of East Side West Side Are you a movie lover in Los Angeles, unable to travel…
Stairway to Heaven & Orpheus: 2 radically different fantasies focus on that mysterious space in between what’s called A Matter of Life and Death.
Hold Back the Dawn (1941) movie review: Mitchell Leisen’s romantic melodrama is a solid Olivia de Havilland showcase. Charles Boyer and Paulette Goddard costar.
The first Hollywood actor to lampoon Hitler? A few years ago, in the San Diego Jewish Journal Lynn Rapaport discussed the first Hollywood comedian to play Adolf Hitler on film.…