Citizen Kane and Song of the South actress Ruth Warrick became All My Children snob Phoebe Tyler and a Confederate flag critic.
Robert Wise
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Patricia Neal Movies: Earth & Face More Pertinent Than Ever
7 minutes readPatricia Neal Movies: ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still,’ ‘A Face in the Crowd’ are two old classics that are more pertinent than ever.
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Audrey Totter: Film Noir Actress
6 minutes readAudrey 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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Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Just last week, an email ad plugging Meryl Streep’s performance in The Weinstein Company release The Iron Lady …
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Paranormal Activity 2 Box Office: No Sleeper Hit
5 minutes readParanormal Activity 2 box office: The original was 2007’s top sleeper hit. Todd Williams’ sequel is also a hit but an expected one.
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Walter Pidgeon Movies: Forbidden Planet + Mrs. Miniver
6 minutes readI mentioned dignified, gentlemanly, and usually a little dull Walter Pidgeon the other day, wishing he had been cast as Jane Powell’s grandfather in A Date with Judy (1948) so …
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Robert Ryan in Robert Wise’s The Set-Up. Robert Ryan, one of the most effective Hollywood actors of the studio era – or any other era – will have his Turner …
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Beefcake and Homoeroticism + Cult Camp Classic Can’t Stop the Music with Valerie Perrine and Bruce Jenner + Haunted House sexual repression with lesbianism.
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Dye-Transfer Technicolor Movie Series + the Dark Magician of Chinese Animation + Star Trek Returns
13 minutes readSean Connery in From Russia with Love. The American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre will present six features (and several shorts) made in the dye-transfer Technicolor process (a.k.a. I.B. or “imbibition”), beginning …
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Claire Bloom, one of the most talented and most striking actresses of her generation, will have her “Summer Under the Stars” day on Monday, Aug. 31. Handpicked by Charles Chaplin …
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Ernest Lehman: Screenwriter who specialized in adapting plays into screenplays Though hardly a household name, screenwriter and sometime producer Ernest Lehman worked on some of the best-known Hollywood movies of …
John Hubley Academy Tribute + ‘West Side Story’ & Giorgio Moroder’s Revamped ‘Metropolis’ Return
Carl Reiner, John Hubley, Hope Lange, Oscar 1959 John Hubley, considered one of animation’s most innovative and influential designer-directors, will have his life and art celebrated by the Academy of …
Patricia Neal: The Day the Earth Stood Still + Hud Actress
Patricia Neal in Martin Ritt’s family drama/social commentary Hud, with Paul Newman. Patricia Neal, who died of lung cancer on Sunday, became one of my favorite movie performers when I …
Matte Painting artwork + Robert Mitchum Interviews with Roger Ebert in which The Night of the Hunter actor disses Steve McQueen and Robert Wise.