Carol Lynley: In her heyday, the Blue Denim, Bunny Lake Is Missing, and The Poseidon Adventure actress was often cast as dreamy girl-next-door types willing and able to tear down the walls of social conventions. In all, throughout her 45-year big-screen career, Carol Lynley was…
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Dana Andrews movies: Complex film noir actor excelled in both major and minor crime dramas. Dana Andrews movies: First-rate film noir actor excelled in both classics & minor fare One of the best-looking and most underrated actors of the studio era, Dana Andrews was a…
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Porgy and Bess film version with Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge: one of this year’s additions to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Samuel Goldwyn’s final production, the Otto Preminger-directed 1959 version of George and Ira Gershwin, and DuBose Heyward’s 1935 Broadway opera Porgy…
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Clara Bow, known as the “It” Girl, stars in the appropriately titled It. Part III of Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood, “The Dream Merchants,” narrated by Christopher Plummer, continues today (a rerun of Monday’s presentation) on Turner Classic Movies (website). Accompanying features…
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Lee Remick. Great news for Lee Remick fans: eleven of her movies will be shown on Thursday, Aug. 26, on Turner Classic Movies. Remick Day is part of TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” series. (See Lee Remick movie schedule further below.) I’ve been a major…
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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 actresses of the studio era. Her eyes sparkled, her teeth sparkled, her complexion sparkled –…
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Gene Tierney in Laura with Clifton Webb: Classic 1944 film noir. Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb, Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 film noir Laura, one of the best in the genre, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion…
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As the title implies, BearManor Media’s The History of Independent Cinema covers the century-long development of – American – filmmaking outside the big-studio lots. Now, who were those independents? Well, as author and film critic Phil Hall explains, they range from those fleeing the Thomas…
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‘Porgy and Bess’: Rare movie version of George Gershwin musical New York screening The Samuel Goldwyn-produced, Otto Preminger-directed 1959 musical Porgy and Bess “was a much-touted, much-seen and in some quarters much-admired motion picture in its time,” writes Robert Osborne in The Hollywood Reporter, “with…
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Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a look for two reasons: It’s quite likely the first major Hollywood motion picture – since…
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Otto Preminger film noir Laura with Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” will be hosted by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly…
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Ramon Novarro and Enid Bennett in The Red Lily. Generally, I post my “Can’t Miss” warnings days after the must-see movies have been shown on television. I’ve decided to try something different this time around. I’m sending this “Can’t Miss” warning nearly a week before the…