Antihero Ricardo Cortez in Symphony of Six Million, with Irene Dunne. Directed by Gregory La Cava, this 1932 family/romantic melodrama may have been one of Cortez’s favorite among his own…
Pat O’Brien: Actor was James Cagney’s partner in eight Warner Bros. movies. Pat O’Brien: Actor was Hollywood’s prolific ‘Resident Irishman’ & favorite priest Remember Pat O’Brien? In case you don’t,…
Constance Cummings: Actress went from minor, long-eyelashed Hollywood leading lady in Harold Lloyd and Frank Capra movies to starring in West End plays by Eugene O’Neill, Noël Coward and William…
American military movies: Besides depicting the Civil War, D.W. Griffith’s landmark 1915 feature The Birth of a Nation had the Ku Klux Klan saving heroine Lillian Gish. From ‘The Birth…
Randolph Scott Westerns, comedies, war dramas: TCM schedule on August 19, 2013 See previous post: “Cary Grant and Randolph Scott Marriages – And ‘Expect the Biographical Worst.’” 3:00 AM BADMAN’S…
Billy Wilder. Johnny Carson interviews & Billy Wilder movies on TCM Billy Wilder is Turner Classic Movies’ Director of the Evening tonight, July 8, 2013. But before Wilder Evening begins, TCM…
Margaret Field, best remembered for the 1951 B sci-fier The Man From Planet X, died at her Malibu home on Sunday, Nov. 6, the day her daughter Sally Field turned…
Sybil Jason, Warner Bros.’ answer to 20th Century Fox sensation Shirley Temple, died on Aug. 23, according to film researcher and author Scott O’Brien. She was 83. Born Sybil Jacobson…
Despite her Best Actress Academy Award win, Joanne Woodward never became a major box office draw. No matter. Woodward was one of the best film actresses of the 20th century,…
Ann Dvorak and Rudy Vallee in Sweet Music. See previous post: Ann Dvorak: Hollywood Rebel. Ann Dvorak’s best-remembered film is probably the 1932 Scarface, starring Paul Muni, directed by Howard…
Ann Sheridan: “The Oomph Girl” Ann Sheridan, the determined, humorous, sensual 1940s Warner Bros. star, is one of my favorite movie toughies. Sheridan was also a first-rate comedienne (I Was…
Actress Lois Maxwell, the devoted and perennially infatuated secretary Miss Moneypenny in a string of James Bond movies, died of cancer at the Fremantle Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, on…
Beverly Tyler ca. 1945. An actress in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movies of the mid-1940s, pretty Beverly Tyler never became a star though she did enjoy some popularity as a decorative – and…
Glenda Farrell. Glenda Farrell: Actress has her ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day Scene-stealer Glenda Farrell is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star on Aug. 29. A reliable –…
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…
McCabe & Mrs. Miller with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie: Robert Altman’s anti-Western (a.k.a. “revisionist Western”) is one of 25 movies added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry…
An experimental cult classic and a Glenn Ford star vehicle are among new DVDs featuring long-unseen titles with a little-known John Wayne connection.