In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s ‘best bad movie,’ The Barefoot Contessa, Ava Gardner exudes a magnetic – and underrated – mix of glamour and charisma.
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Cary Grant Films: Gender-Bending Comedy I Was a Male War Bride with Grant as French wife but badly miscast in macho roles.
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Honorary Award bypassed Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson and Rita Hayworth among dozens of other women as Academy focused on male recipients.
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Mary Poppins National Film Registry Addition as well-timed Free Publicity for Walt Disney Studios’ movie Saving Mr. Banks about author P.L. Travers.
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Tony Martin movies Actor-singer Tony Martin, once married to 20th Century Fox singing star Alice Faye and the widower of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dancer-actress Cyd Charisse, died of “natural causes” at his …
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Rita Hayworth: Gilda was career peak. Rita Hayworth is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Evening. TCM will be presenting the quintessential Hayworth in Gilda at 5 p.m. PT. That’ll …
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Andrew Embiricos, grandson of Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan, was found dead of an apparent suicide at his West 17th Street apartment in Chelsea, New York City …
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“Summer Under the Stars” is over, but Kim Novak is the “star of tonight” on Turner Classic Movies. Five Novak vehicles released at the height of her stardom will be …
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Wholesome silent era superstars Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks drawn by Vargas (probably best known for his drawings of naked and semi-naked women in Playboy), Motion Picture Long before Robert Pattinson, …
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Tyrone Power: Q&A with researcher Maria Ciaccia about one of the biggest film stars of the 20th century Among the romantic leading men of the studio era, Tyrone Power, 20th …
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Ida Lupino. Ida Lupino, one of the top Warner Bros. stars of the 1940s, will have her “Summer Under the Stars” day on Thursday, Aug. 27. More than a second-rank …
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Oberon Movies: Mysterious Oscar-nominated actress led intriguing off-screen life rivaling roles she played on the big screen in England and Hollywood.
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Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in Gilda Glenn Ford will have his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Friday, Aug. 7. The Turner Classic Movies Glenn Ford marathon will …
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz ‘Suddenly Last Summer,’ starring Elizabeth Taylor. Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with …
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Ann Savage: Detour film noir actress who became a cult celebrity thanks to her memorably unglamorous psychopathic villainess dead at age 89.
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If Clark Gable was the King of Hollywood, then Tyrone Power was its – more handsome, more charming, more pleasant – Crown Prince. Allan Ellenberger has reported on and posted …
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Rita Hayworth in Gilda. Rita Hayworth & Fred Astaire movies Friday-Saturday, Aug. 15–16, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Since TCM is currently leasing Columbia’s library, this year’s Rita Hayworth Day …
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Charles Boyer. When I hear the name Charles Boyer, who is currently (July 2008) being honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) with the series “The Discreet …
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Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie, with Jack Lemmon. Saturday, June 14, highlights on Turner Classic Movies include The Third Man and several Walter Matthau movies: Many consider The Third …
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Lasso of Truth: Lynda Carter Woman Woman vs. George W. Bush Liar Man. Lynda Carter & Wonder Woman Lasso of Truth vs. George W. Bush & Lying cronies Lynda Carter, …
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Hollywood Home Movies: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart (top); Esther Williams (bottom). Rarely seen home movies from the personal collections of Alfred Hitchcock, Esther Williams (above), Steve McQueen, Lauren Bacall …
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This past June 14, one of the world’s top directors of the last 25 years, Pedro Almodóvar, was presented with the title of Commander of the Order of Merit of …
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New York City’s Film Forum is presenting an unusual film series this spring 2007: Low(er)-budget classic musicals from the 1930s to the early 1950s. In those films you won’t find …
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Hedy Lamarr biography: Discussing Charles Boyer’s romantic interest in in Algiers. See previous post: Hedy Lamarr: Q&A with Author Patrick Agan: Part II Is it true that Hedy Lamarr refused …
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Jean Arthur was Columbia’s top star of the 1930s and early 1940s. Jean Arthur starred in numerous classics, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and You Can’t Take It with …
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson in That Hamilton Woman (1941). Vivien Leigh biography, movies + photo exhibit among centenary celebrations [See previous post: “Vivien …
Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai. Orson Welles’ career as an actor was both fruitful and frustrating. From Citizen Kane (1941) to Someone to Love (1987), …
Jean Arthur movies: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Jean Arthur is one of my all-time favorite performers. So, it’s great to see her listed as one of Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer …
American Primitive with Tate Donovan and Adam Pascal. July 19: The tale of a poor backwater family struggling against poverty, addiction, and assorted personal and social maladies, Tina Mabry’s Mississippi …
Gene Kelly in Les Girls with Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg. Gene Kelly and Jack Palance: Sunday-Monday, Aug. 17–18, highlights on Turner Classic Movies. Gene Kelly and Jack …
Jack Palance in Shane. Philip French in The Guardian: “From the start, the movies welcomed into their midst the mustachioed villain of Victorian melodrama, leaving subtler antagonists to literary fiction …
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Bernard Gordon, a blacklisted screenwriter during the McCarthy era and a leader of the protest against the honorary Oscar awarded director (and informant) Elia Kazan, …
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