Best remembered for playing the creepy Omni chairman in RoboCop, Dan O’Herlihy was a one-of-a-kind Best Actor Oscar nominee during the studio era.
Citizen Kane and Song of the South actress Ruth Warrick became All My Children snob Phoebe Tyler and a Confederate flag critic.
Trouble Is My Business is a tongue-in-cheek film noir homage that evokes memories of classic Hollywood crime dramas of the 1940s and 1950s.
Scarlett Johansson hot and dangerous as Black Widow in Captain America: The Winter Soldier character posters. Scarlett Johansson hot & dangerous in latest ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ poster Scarlett…
Alan Turing: gay cryptographer was World War II “hero” – well, not that he risked his life while blowing people up or bombing cities; Turing, according to some “the father…
Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai. Orson Welles’ career as an actor was both fruitful and frustrating. From Citizen Kane (1941) to Someone to Love (1987),…
Zsa Zsa Gabor. Actress-celebrity Zsa Zsa Gabor, 93, has asked for a priest to read her the last rites according to various reports. Gabor remains in critical condition at Los…
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…
Janet Leigh: Peaches-and-cream heroine became effective dramatic actress. Janet Leigh, discovered by former MGM star Norma Shearer, was one of the many pretty (and quite talented) actresses who were mostly…
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter. Friday, Aug. 22, highlights on Turner Classic Movies (TCM): I’m not all that familiar with Trevor Howard’s career as a star. I’ve…
Geraldine Fitzgerald: Renowned movie, stage, and TV actress has died Geraldine Fitzgerald, veteran stage and screen actress among whose film credits are Wuthering Heights, Wilson, Harry and Tonto, and the…
Suzanne Flon: Actress collaborated with Claude Autant-Lara + John Huston + Orson Welles Suzanne Flon, a renowned stage and screen actress who was featured in more than 50 movies, died…
Rita 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…
Angry Young Man Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Image: Bryanston Films Ltd./Photofest. “Four Angry Young Men” is the title of a four-film series to take place on…
Citizen Kane Oscar: Orson Welles’ Academy Award statuette for sale. Citizen Kane Oscar auction: Orson Welles’ Best Original Screenplay statuette to be sold Orson Welles’ Academy Award for Citizen Kane, considered…