Robert Mitchum ca. late 1940s. Robert Mitchum movies ‘The Yakuza’ & ‘Ryan’s Daughter’ on TCM On Aug. 12, Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series is highlighting the career…
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The Best Years of Our Lives: Blockbuster with Teresa Wright, Fredric March, Myrna Loy, and Michael Hall. Teresa Wright: Missing out on ‘Duel in the Sun,’ but scoring with ‘The…
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Polly Bergen publicity shot ca. 1960s. Polly Bergen: Actress on Richard Nixon’s ‘enemies list’ (See previous post: “Polly Bergen: ‘First American Woman President.’”) As discussed in the previous post, despite…
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Polly Bergen became the “first U.S. woman president” in the 1964 comedy Kisses for My President. Polly Bergen movies: ‘First woman U.S. president’ dead at 84 Emmy Award-winning actress Polly…
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Pretty Poison with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins: Noel Black-directed cult crime classic. Cult movie classic Pretty Poison filmmaker Noel Black has died Noel Black, best remembered for the 1968…
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Janet Leigh movies: The Manchurian Candidate 1962, with Frank Sinatra. Janet Leigh would have turned 85 on Friday, July 6. In her honor, Turner Classic Movies is showing eight Janet…
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Kirk Douglas is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of September. Though hardly a great film actor – or even a good one – Douglas has had one of…
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Jane Greer in Out of the Past: Femme fatale in classic film noir. Today is neither Jane Greer’s birth nor death anniversary. Even so, Turner Classic Movies is devoting Saturday evening/night…
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Blade Runner movie review: A box office disappointment upon its 1982 release, Ridley Scott’s dystopian “noir” sci-fier has become one of the most revered – and most re-edited – big-screen…
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Matte painting tecniques displayed in Forbidden Planet. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release, Fred M. Wilcox’s 1956 science-fiction classic Forbidden Planet was seemingly inspired by William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Cyril Hume was credited…
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Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. Don Siegel Movies: From Alien Pods to Clint Eastwood From March 17 through April 13, New York City’s Film Forum (website) will be screening a…
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The Devil Strikes at Night movie review: Like Elio Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Robert Siodmak’s Nazi Germany-set drama uses a murderer’s actions to point out that the…
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Experimental cult classic Track of the Cat: Featuring a stellar cast, William A. Wellman’s family drama is one of several new DVDs with a little-known connection to Hollywood star and…