As an RKO and MGM star, sassy blonde Ann Sothern had an unconventional professional trajectory: A and B movies in a decades-long film career that had no less than 2 peaks.
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Howard Keel: Dallas resurgence as rancher Clayton Farlow following abrupt career downfall and decades-long Hollywood purgatory.
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(See previous post: Fourth of July Movies: Escapism During a Weird Year.) On the evening of the Fourth of July, besides fireworks, fire hazards, and Yankee Doodle Dandy, if you’re…
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Theodore Bikel Movies: The Oscar-nominated activist and The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof star was bypassed for the movie versions.
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John Kerr. John Kerr: ‘Tea and Sympathy’ gay teen on stage and screen has died John Kerr, best known for playing the sensitive (and suspected to be gay) adolescent opposite…
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Patty Andrews and sisters LaVerne Andrews, Patty Andrews, and Maxene Andrews. Patty Andrews: Last Surviving member of The Andrews Sisters dead at 94 Patty Andrews, the lead vocalist and last…
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Porgy and Bess film: Costly and controversial + hard-to-find black musical version of Gershwin Broadway hit is most notable LoC National Registry entry.
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South Pacific movie: 1958 musical toplining Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, France Nuyen, and Juanita Hall was a major box office hit. Tonight at 7:30 p.m., a recently restored…
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Marni Nixon: Making Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood, and Audrey Hepburn sound more melodious. Marni Nixon, the voice behind, among others, Deborah Kerr in The King and I and An Affair…
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Golden Dawn (movie 1930) review: Africa-set operetta has something to offend, amuse and/or bore everyone. Sweating his black makeup away, Noah Beery is the standout.
Maria von Trapp was one of the singing von Trapp family members that inspired the characters in Robert Wise’s 1965 blockbuster The Sound of Music. Maria von Trapp dead at 99:…
Jeanne Crain films on TCM Jeanne Crain was one of 20th Century Fox’s biggest stars of the 1940s and early 1950s – one who led a tragic life, not at…