Merle Oberon: Glamour Actress with mysterious past dons men’s clothes and fights Nazis, but her private life more dramatic than her films.
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Rod Taylor Movies: The Time Machine and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, comeback for Tarantino and was he the First Australian Hollywood Star?
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Jane Fonda in Alan J. Pakula’s Klute. Jane Fonda movies on TCM: ‘The China Syndrome’ & ‘Klute’ + Jean-Luc Godard drama Turner Classic Movies’ 2014 “Summer Under the Stars” kicked…
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Doris Day in Calamity Jane: Gay or straight? In David Butler’s enjoyable musical Western, Day is equally intrigued by chorus girl Allyn McLerie and macho Westerner Howard Keel. She also…
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The Birds poster: Universal Studios horror. Universal Studios horror: Alfred Hitchcock & James Whale + ‘Tarantula’ Academy screenings As part of the year-long celebration of Universal Pictures’ centenary, the Academy…
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Gore Vidal movies: The Best Man, Caligula, Suddenly Last Summer. (Image: A young Gore Vidal.) Author, playwright, screenwriter, acerbic storyteller, and political commentator Gore Vidal died on July 31 at…
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Bette Davis: Actress in The Old Maid with off-screen “rival” Miriam Hopkins. Bette Davis, Warner Bros.’ top female box office attraction from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s, is Turner…
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Julie Christie, easily one of the most compelling performers of the last half-century and an ardent political activist for liberal causes, has her day on Monday, Aug. 2, as part…
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Robert Culp, best remembered for the 1960s television series I Spy and for the 1969 spouse-swapping comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, died Wednesday morning after a fall…
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Cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff, one of the early masters of color cinematography, has died. He was 94. (Image: Peter Ustinov in Death on the Nile, shot by Jack Cardiff.) Cardiff’s…
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The War of the Worlds with Gene Barry and Ann Robinson (top); George Pal ca. early 1950s (bottom). “George Pal: Discovering the Fantastic,” a centennial celebration hosted by director Joe…
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Michelangelo Antonioni movies at LACMA “Modernist Master: Michelangelo Antonioni,” is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (website) retrospective honoring the Italian filmmaker, whose body of work includes revered classics…
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Warner’s Doris Day DVD Collection box set include several of the bright star’s biggest hits - comedies and musicals - and even one of her rare (big-budget) flops.
Alfred Hitchcock ca. 1960. Alfred Hitchcock San Francisco: Guided tour through the sites of Hitchcock’s movies The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has arranged for San Francisco City Guides to…
Big Bad Mama with Angie Dickinson. The life of screenwriter William W. Norton, who died of a heart aneurysm on Oct. 2 in Santa Barbara at the age of 85,…
Ernest Borgnine in Marty. Ernest Borgnine, the 91-year-old veteran of nearly 200 films and TV shows, will show up at the American Cinematheque’s (website) screening of Marty (1955), for which…