Ruth Warrick: In show business for nearly seven decades, actress Ruth Warrick is best remembered for two disparate roles: Charles Foster Kane’s genteel wife in Orson Welles’ 1941 classic Citizen…
Patricia Neal ca. 1950. Patricia Neal movies: ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ & ‘A Face in the Crowd’ Back in 1949, few would have predicted that Gary Cooper’s leading…
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…
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…
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…
I 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…
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…
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…
Beefcake: Written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald, the 1999 docudrama Beefcake traces the groundbreaking trajectory of photographer/videographer Bob Mizer, whose “health & fitness” work – mostly focused on great-looking, muscular,…
Sean 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…
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…
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…
An American Haunting movie: Based on a purported real-life case about a Tennessee family at odds with a ghostly presence, this good-looking, technically accomplished horror drama takes the conventional route…
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…