The Poseidon Adventure actress Carol Lynley should also be remembered for a landmark teen pregnancy drama and for a first-rate British thriller.
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Michael Caine Movies: From Gay Villain to starring in the Best British Film in a series of vehicles presented on TCM including Get Carter.
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Maximilian Schell. Maximilian Schell: Best Actor Oscar winner for ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ has died Actor and filmmaker Maximilian Schell, best known for his Oscar-winning performance as the defense attorney in…
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Bryan Forbes. Bryan Forbes has died: Katharine Hepburn & Leslie Caron + the original ‘The Stepford Wives’ director Director Bryan Forbes, whose films include the then-daring The L-Shaped Room, the…
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Ernest Borgnine dead at 95: villain at his best in befuddled roles Ernest Borgnine, a movie villain who won a Best Actor Academy Award for playing a kindly butcher in…
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Joyce Redman, Academy Award nominated for both Tom Jones and Othello, died in Kent, England, earlier today. The Newcastle-born Redman, who was either 93 or 96, had been suffering from…
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Brief Encounter with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. Brief Encounter one-line synopsis: A married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a housewife (Celia Johnson) have an adulterous (and platonic) affair. The Pros:…
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When most people think of Leslie Nielsen, they think of comedy spoofs – of varying degrees of box office success – such as Airplane! (1980), The Naked Gun (1988), Dracula:…
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Ronald Neame disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure with Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons. Ronald Neame, best-known for the 1972 blockbuster The Poseidon Adventure, died on June 16 at a hospital…
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La Roue DVD: Abel Gance mammoth silent era classic. “There is cinema before and after La Roue as there is painting before and after Picasso.” That’s none other than Jean…
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Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, based on a novel by Muriel Spark. ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ author Muriel Spark dead at 88 Scottish-born writer…
Jack Klugman and Tony Randall: The Odd Couple. Jack Klugman dead at 90: ‘The Odd Couple’ & ‘Quincy M.E.’ actor Jack Klugman, best known for the television series The Odd…
Susannah York in Robert Altman’s Images. Susannah York, one of the best (and best-looking) performers of the 1960s and 1970s, died today. York’s son, Orlando Wells (the Duke of Kent…
Screenwriter and playwright Jay Presson Allen died of a stroke yesterday morning at her home in Manhattan. She was 84. The Ft. Worth native (born on March 3, 1922) wrote…