The Audition 2015 poster with Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. ‘The Audition’ 2015: Martin Scorsese short starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Robert De Niro pulled from Venice Film…
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Ingrid Bergman. Ingrid Bergman movies on TCM: From the artificial ‘Gaslight’ to the magisterial ‘Autumn Sonata’ Two days ago, Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series highlighted the film…
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Greta Garbo movies: The Kiss was her final silent film. Greta Garbo movies: Rare silent era star on TCM Greta Garbo, a rarity among silent era movie stars, is Turner…
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Jayne Meadows. Three-time Emmy nominee Jayne Meadows dead at 95 Jayne Meadows, best known for her show business partnership with husband and television personality Steve Allen, died at age 95…
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Hayao Miyazaki. Honorary Oscars 2014: Hayao Miyazaki, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Maureen O’Hara; Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award goes to Harry Belafonte One good thing about the creation of the Academy of…
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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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Audrey Totter ca. late 1940s Audrey Totter: Film noir actress and MGM leading lady dead at 95 Audrey Totter, film noir femme fatale and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player best remembered for…
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Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Clark Gable in Forsaking All Others. Joan Crawford is Turner Classic Movies’ next “Summer Under the Stars” star. On Monday, Aug. 22, TCM will be…
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June Lockhart and Malcolm McDowell at Academy exhibition of Best Picture Oscar nominees posters: ‘Lost in Space’ meets ‘A Clockwork Orange.’ Veterans June Lockhart and Malcolm McDowell: Academy’s exhibition of…
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“I’m looking forward to being ‘onstage’ Sunday at the Egyptian. I love talking about Irving, Norma, and Joan.” That’s author Mark A. Vieira, commenting on Allan Ellenberger’s post about his…
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If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may be wondering why the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre will devote the evening of Feb. 26 to screen two movies as…
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Author and photographer Mark A. Vieira (right), who has been a friend for a number of years, has recently written no less than two books on Irving G. Thalberg, the…
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Ann Savage: the 1940s glamour look. Unlike Joan Bennett, Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott, Veronica Lake, Jane Greer, Claire Trevor, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Lauren Bacall, and other so-called film noir…
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Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Intermezzo. Ingrid Bergman movies on Monday, Aug. 25, on Turner Classic Movies: Before being vilified, accursed, and banished from Hollywood because of her adulterous affair with…
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Back in the late 1920s, Anita Page could never have dreamed that eight decades later she would be a celebrity of sorts: The Official Last Surviving Silent Film Star. In…
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Novelist and playwright Joseph Hayes, best known for his stage and film adaptations of his 1954 suspense novel The Desperate Hours, died this past Sept. 11 at a nursing home…
Neil Patrick Harris. Neil Patrick Harris to host Oscar 2015 ceremony Stage, film, and television actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the 2015 Oscars, a.k.a. the 87th Academy Awards ceremony,…
John Kerr. John Kerr: ‘Tea and Sympathy’ gay teen on stage and screen has died John Kerr, best known for playing the sensitive (and suspected to be gay) adolescent opposite…
Clark Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty, with Charles Laughton. Clark Gable has his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Wednesday, Aug. 12. Turner Classic Movies will present thirteen of…
Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey, with William Powell. When I think of Carole Lombard, the first thing that comes to mind – well, the second, after her ditzy heiress…