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.…
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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.
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Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett Movies as screenwriters and sometimes director or producer include dozen classic Hollywood films.
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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Remember the Night: Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray learn about love’s corruptive and redemptive power of in Mitchell Leisen’s Christmas Classic.
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Classic Christmas Movies: Remember the Night Returns and Largely Forgotten Oscar Nominee + Maria Ouspenskaya and 3 matchmaking ghosts.
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To Each His Own (movie 1946) review: Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland creates a shrewd portrayal in Mitchell Leisen’s heartfelt melodrama. John Lund costars.
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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.
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The Godless Girl (movie 1928) review: Cecil B. DeMille directed a thoughtful theological drama that will convert the most hardened of cynics. Lina Basquette and Tom Keene star.
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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…
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Actor Keith Andes Commits Suicide: Marilyn Monroe Romantic Interest in 1952 movie also featured in musicals and Star Trek TV series.
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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 (movie 1941) review: Olivia de Havilland showcase is also a solid romantic melodrama. Charles Boyer and Paulette Goddard costar; Mitchell Leisen directed.
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.…