Patricia Neal ca. 1950. Patricia Neal movies: ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ & ‘A Face in the Crowd’ Back in 1949, few would have predicted that Gary Cooper’s leading lady in King Vidor’s The Fountainhead would go on to win a Best Actress Academy…
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Patricia Neal and Andy Griffith, A Face in the Crowd Elia Kazan’s 1957 drama A Face in the Crowd, written by Kazan’s On the Waterfront collaborator Budd Schulberg, is neither the forgotten masterpiece its champions claim it to be nor a minor work to be…
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James Franco and Anne Hathaway: Oscar ceremony hosts. Oscar ceremony details leaked: No James Franco in drag singing Cher song The 2011 Oscar ceremony rundown has been leaked to Deadline‘s Nikki Finke. Among the revelations are a mystery “guest host” halfway through the show, Mo’Nique’s…
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As part of its Blake Edwards tribute, Turner Classic Movies will be showing Days of Wine and Roses, starring Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon. Nearly a decade before partnering up with wife Julie Andrews in a series of (mostly) musicals and comedies, Blake Edwards joined…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Movies & Gina Lollobrigida + ‘Mare Nostrum’ & ‘Serious’ 1950s Hollywood Classics
Tender Is the Night with Jennifer Jones. Henry King’s 1962 movie adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1934 novel – screenplay by Ivan Moffat – starred Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette, 1943) in what turned out to be her final star…
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Patricia Neal in Martin Ritt’s family drama/social commentary Hud, with Paul Newman. Patricia Neal, who died of lung cancer on Sunday, became one of my favorite movie performers when I was a little kid and saw her in – inevitably – The Day the Earth…
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What better way to start the New Year than by remembering the long-ago past? No, not war and assorted catastrophes, but beauty and romance. The clip above features a montage of about two dozen “Golden Age Actresses” – the actual title of the video is…
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The River 1951: Jean Renoir India-set classic. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be presenting a restored print of Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama The River. Though largely forgotten today, The River remains one of Renoir’s best films. The performances may leave much…