Actress Ann Sothern enjoyed an unusual second career peak that included a top Oscar winner and decades later she became one of the oldest nominees.
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Olivia de Havilland vs. Warner Bros.: Landmark Lawsuit changed U.S. labor laws and paved the way for 2 Best Actress Oscars. She turns 100 this year.
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Ron Moody: Doctor Who Was Biggest Professional Regret of Oscar-Nominated Actor who would be nominated for Tony Award for Oliver! revival.
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Lizabeth Scott: Film noir actress Lizabeth Scott: Film noir star of the 1940s and 1950s + Elvis Presley leading lady Lizabeth Scott, a Paramount star in the 1940s usually cast…
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Joan Lorring in ‘Three Strangers’ Joan Lorring dead at 88: ‘The Corn Is Green’ performer was one of the earliest surviving Academy Award nominees in the acting categories Best Supporting…
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San Francisco Symphony & Cary Grant in ‘North by Northwest.’ San Francisco Symphony salutes Alfred Hitchcock: Halloween movies and Hitchcock movie music The San Francisco Symphony will celebrate Alfred Hitchcock…
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Doris Day in Calamity Jane: Gay or straight? In David Butler’s enjoyable musical Western, Day is equally intrigued by chorus girl Allyn McLerie and macho Westerner Howard Keel. She also…
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Deep Throat porn star Harry Reems became a free-speech cause célèbre in the mid-1970s Harry Reems, star of the landmark 1972 porn movie Deep Throat and a free-speech cause célèbre…
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Grace of Monaco Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly. Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly in ‘Grace of Monaco’: Best Actress Oscar nominee? Nicole Kidman Best Actress Academy Award nominee (possibly winner)…
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Rebecca remake in the works? Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 original – based on a novel by Daphne Du Maurier – starred Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier. Hollywood has been running out…
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Ray Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard in Reap the Wild Wind. Ray Milland movies on TCM Debonair Ray Milland is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in April…
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Dorothy Malone: Oscar winner incomprehensibly never became a top Hollywood star despite memorable performances in movies of the 1950s.
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Olivia de Havilland films: William Wyler’s The Heiress with Montgomery Clift. Twelve Olivia de Havilland movies will be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Friday, Aug. 27, as part of…
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Ann Blyth. Ann Blyth, who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the film noir Mildred Pierce (1945), is pictured above during a discussion following a screening of the…
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Grace Kelly. Stating the obvious: most people take great pleasure in idealizing their idols – which is why idols are idols. Whether we’re talking of gods, saints, prophets, or pop…
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Claude Rains, one of the finest actors of the studio era – in fact, one of the finest film actors of the 20th century – is Turner Classic Movies’ Star…
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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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Tom Cruise & Steven Spielberg War of the Worlds 2005 movie: H.G. Wells’ sci-fier for the 21st-century U.S. “Aren’t you afraid that audiences in some parts of the world may…
Audrey Long: actress in film noir classics Desperate, Born to Kill has died. She was married to The Saint author Leslie Charteris.
Deanna Durbin in I’ll Be Yours. Deanna Durbin dies at 91: One of the top stars of Hollywood’s studio era According to Hollywood lore, teen star Deanna Durbin saved Universal…
Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller: I Confess with Montgomery Clift. Alfred Hitchcock is the focus of tonight’s programming on Turner Classic Movies, which will be showing five of the director’s films: Stage…
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…
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…