Coleen Gray: Actress and film noir good girl went from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Killing’ to ‘The Leech Woman.’ Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men…
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Susan Hayward. Susan Hayward movies: Best Actress Oscar winner is TCM Star of the Month Fiery redhead Susan Hayward is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in September 2015.…
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Michael Caine young: Long and prestigious career – as long as one chooses to ignore dozens of titles like The Island, Jaws: The Revenge, and Austin Powers in Goldmember. Michael…
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Mother roles: Teresa Wright in The Actress, with daughter Jean Simmons and husband Spencer Tracy. Teresa Wright in the 1950s: From Marlon Brando leading lady to spinsters and mother roles…
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James Farentino, best remembered for the television series The Bold Ones: The Lawyers and Dynasty, died at age 73 on Jan. 24 in Los Angeles. A Brooklyn native (born on…
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Gilbert Cates, best known as the man behind a record 14 Academy Awards ceremonies, died at age 77 on Sept. 31 in the Los Angeles of Westwood. Cates reportedly had…
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Arthur Penn epoch-making crime drama Bonnie and Clyde with Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty, and Faye Dunaway. Arthur Penn, who died of congestive heart failure at his New York City home…
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Claude Rains in Mr. Skeffington. Monday-Wednesday, Aug. 4–6, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Monday is Marie Dressler Day. What could be there not to recommend? Well, Emma, for one, is…
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Anne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate dead at 73 Anne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and the longtime wife of Mel Brooks, died of uterine cancer on July…
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Award-winning Iraq War-themed drama gets US distribution + veteran Oscar winner has been hospitalized + Antarctica is getting its very first movie theater.
Best Supporting Actress Nominees pre-1950 still alive, Oscar nonagenarians / centenarian. (Image: Ann Blyth Mildred Pierce, with Joan Crawford.) Following Celeste Holm’s death today and Ernest Borgnine’s death last Sunday,…
The Goddess with Kim Stanley. Paddy Chayefsky evokes a cynical Tennessee Williams in his screenplay for The Goddess, a Hollywood cautionary tale directed by veteran John Cromwell. Episodic in progression…