As an RKO and MGM star, sassy blonde Ann Sothern had an unconventional professional trajectory: A and B movies in a decades-long film career that had no less than 2 peaks.
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Melvyn Douglas. Melvyn Douglas: From suave leading man to Hollywood’s top female stars to first-rate dramatic actor Unlike Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, or Gary Cooper, Melvyn Douglas couldn’t exactly be…
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Constance Cummings Actress: Criminally underrated performer went from Harold Lloyd and Frank Capra to Tony Winner and Eugene O’Neill.
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Susan Hayward Movies: Best Actress Academy Award Winner for I Want to Live and 4-time Oscar nominee Is TCM Star of the Month.
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Luise Rainer Dead: At 104 years old first Two-Time Oscar Winner in the acting categories was oldest surviving Academy Award recipient.
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Patty Andrews and sisters LaVerne Andrews, Patty Andrews, and Maxene Andrews. Patty Andrews: Last Surviving member of The Andrews Sisters dead at 94 Patty Andrews, the lead vocalist and last…
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Annabella in René Clair’s Le Million Though best remembered as Tyrone Power’s first wife, Annabella (1907-1996) was a major star in France before she came to Hollywood in 1938 to…
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Katharine Hepburn movies: The Philadelphia Story, Woman of the Year landmarks in film career of 4-time Best Actress Oscar winner.
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Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis, with Judy Garland. For Turner Classic Movies’ Margaret O’Brien Day on Sunday, Aug. 15, TCM will present the television premiere of Meet Me…
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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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Sitting Pretty with Clifton Webb. In the late 1940s, the bucolic suburb of Hummingbird Hill is shaken in its tranquil complacency by the scandalous actions of two middle-aged, unmarried men. Each of…
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Gloria Grahame in Crossfire. In films, Grahame usually came across as vulgar, sleazy, and untrustworthy – and I mean that as a compliment; in my book, shady movie characters have…
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The first Hollywood actor to lampoon Hitler? A few years ago, in the San Diego Jewish Journal Lynn Rapaport discussed the first Hollywood comedian to play Adolf Hitler on film.…
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Ruth Hussey. Ruth Hussey: 1940s MGM actress remembered Ruth Hussey, a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee for George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story, died at age 93 on April 19…
Simone Simon: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale was seen in nearly 40 films, seducing men old and young sometimes with deadly results.
Greer Garson in Random Harvest with Ronald Colman. Greer Garson, one of the most underrated actresses of the studio era, will have her day – and I mean “day” as in morning…
Crossfire movie. Directed by Edward Dmytryk, written by John Paxton, and produced by Adrian Scott, Crossfire (1947) will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture…
Jane Wyatt: Star Trek, Father Knows Best, and Lost Horizon actress. Jane Wyatt: ‘Star Trek’ & ‘Father Knows Best’ + ‘Lost Horizon’ actress dead at 96 Actress Jane Wyatt, best…