Rebecca 1940: Joan Fontaine as the “successor” and Judith Anderson as the creepy lesbian housekeeper, madly in love with her deceased mistress. ‘Rebecca’ 1940: Alfred Hitchcock Best Picture Oscar winner…
Olivia de Havilland in ‘The Heiress.’ Olivia de Havilland vs. Warner Bros. (See previous post: “Olivia de Havilland Turns 99: Warner Bros. Legal Fight Changed U.S. Labor Law.”) In 1942,…
Joan Leslie. Joan Leslie: Actress who fought Warner Bros. and co-starred opposite Gary Cooper and Fred Astaire dead at 90 Joan Leslie, best (somewhat mis)remembered as sweet girl next door…
Olivia de Havilland as Lady Marian in ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood.’ Olivia de Havilland on TCM: Your chance to watch ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ for the 384th time…
To Each His Own with Olivia de Havilland and John Lund. ‘To Each His Own’ movie review: Best Actress Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland stars in Mother Love tearjerker Olivia…
Hold Back the Dawn: Olivia de Havilland with co-stars Charles Boyer and Paulette Goddard. Hold Back the Dawn 1941 movie: Olivia de Havilland steals show as small-town teacher in love…
Teresa Wright. Teresa Wright: Later years (See previous post: Hollywood actress goes from Broadway hit to late 20th-century movies Somewhere in Time & The Rainmaker.) Teresa Wright and Robert Anderson…
Alicia Rhett as India Wilkes in Gone with the Wind. ‘Gone with the Wind’ actress Alicia Rhett dead at 98; was oldest surviving credited GWTW cast member Gone with the…
The Thief and the Cobbler: Original version of Richard Williams’ animated film gets Academy premiere The first public screening of the original version of Richard Williams’ The Thief and the…
Women in film. Women in Film: Marilyn Monroe + Ava Gardner & dozens of movie actresses in curious morphing montage A few dozen top international female movie stars, most of…
Movie stars of the 1930s still alive: Best Actress Oscar winners Luise Rainer, Olivia de Havilland, Jennifer Jones, Barbra Streisand, and Meryl Streep, and other Oscar-winning actors and actresses at…
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…
Patti Page: “Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte” singer – but not in Robert Aldrich’s 1964 box office hit starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Joseph Cotten. Patti Page movies: ‘Elmer Gantry’…
Errol Flynn with Olivia de Havilland in The Charge of the Light Brigade. Errol Flynn movies: Errol Flynn would have turned 103 on June 20. In celebration of his birthday,…
Carl Reiner, John Hubley, Hope Lange, Oscar 1959 John Hubley, considered one of animation’s most innovative and influential designer-directors, will have his life and art celebrated by the Academy of…
Vivien 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:…
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…
Olivia de Havilland. Olivia de Havilland is the subject of an interview published in the London Evening Standard about a week ago. The piece is a must-read. Discussed are de…
How long is Gone with the Wind? Long enough for Clark Gable to watch Vivien Leigh grow from teenage belle to womanly Civil War survivor. “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best…
Movie couples: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn. In Leading Couples: The Most Unforgettable Screen Romances of the Studio Era (Chronicle Books,…
Were the World Mine: Gay romance between bullied, small-town gay adolescent Tanner Cohen (seated) and school rugby team captain Nathaniel David Becker in Tom Gustafson’s mix of romantic yearning, music,…
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938: Errol Flynn at his most dashing in Michael Curtiz and William Keighley’s rousing Technicolor classic. A Warner Bros. digital restoration of the 1938 rousing…
Veteran Olivia de Havilland jumped on the aging-actress horror-film bandwagon with the lurid shocker Lady in a Cage. That said, I must add that the film, directed by Walter Grauman…
Bette Davis in Dangerous: First of two Best Actress Academy Awards. Although Bette Davis isn’t exactly one my favorite actresses, in my view several of her performances rank among the…
Bette Davis DVD Collection. The Bette Davis Collection Vol. 3, a DVD box set consisting of six Davis vehicles, will be released on April 1. The six films are The…
Olivia de Havilland. Labor relations’ history-making ‘Gone with the Wind’ star and two-time Best Actress Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland turns 99 Two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Olivia de…
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…
Eleanor Parker Palm Springs resident: Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month. Eleanor Parker: Palm Springs resident turns 91 today Eleanor Parker turns 91 today. The three-time Oscar nominee (Caged,…
Tony Martin movies Actor-singer Tony Martin, once married to 20th Century Fox singing star Alice Faye and the widower of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dancer-actress Cyd Charisse, died of “natural causes” at his…
Olivia de Havilland films: William Wyler’s The Heiress with Montgomery Clift. Twelve Olivia de Havilland movies will be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Friday, Aug. 27, as part of…
Under Full Sail. Under Full Sail - Silent Cinema on the High Seas Flicker Alley (website) in association with the Blackhawk Film Collection has announced the release of “Under Full…
Bette Davis – young and older – is the subject of a Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences centennial tribute. Bette Davis…
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