SAG president Ronald Reagan failed to rise to the occasion during the pivotal 1960 Screen Actors Guild strike, when veteran Hollywood stars and supporting players were denied residuals.
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Virginia Mayo: Technicolor Siren Best in Unsympathetic B&W Roles
11 minutes readTechnicolor siren Virginia Mayo was most impressive as callous black-and-white women in films like The Best Years of Our Lives + White Heat.
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Canadian-born actress Alexis Smith (born 1921) would have turned 96 years old on June 8. Turner Classic Movies is celebrating her birthday by presenting nine of her movies, mostly during …
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Pat O’Brien: Actor was James Cagney Partner was one of Hollywood’s busiest leading men and favorite priest of the studio era.
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Shirley Temple: Child actress turned teen actress in the 1940s Shirley Temple dead at 85: Was one of the biggest domestic box office draws of the 1930s Shirley Temple, one …
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Eleanor Parker. Eleanor Parker dead at 91: ‘The Sound of Music’ actress, three-time Best Actress Oscar nominee Eleanor Parker, one of the best and most beautiful actresses of the studio …
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Bette Davis Eyes: Watch on the Rhine + Dark Victory
7 minutes readBette Davis’ eyes keep Watch on the Rhine. Bette Davis’ eyes are watching everything and everyone on Turner Classic Movies this evening, as TCM continues with its “Summer Under the …
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Jane Wyman Movies: Johnny Belinda + Let’s Do It Again
3 minutes readJane Wyman in The Lost Weekend with Ray Milland. Jane Wyman, unfairly known by many merely as Ronald Reagan’s first wife, is the “star of the day” on Turner Classic …
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Ann Sheridan Movies: Kings Row + The Opposite Sex
7 minutes readAnn Sheridan: “The Oomph Girl” Ann Sheridan, the determined, humorous, sensual 1940s Warner Bros. star, is one of my favorite movie toughies. Sheridan was also a first-rate comedienne (I Was …
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The Bette Davis vehicle and 1939 Best Picture nominee Dark Victory will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest …
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Innocent Voices (2004): Salvadoran Boyhood Horrors
4 minutes readInnocent Voices (2004) review: A boy faces the horrors of El Salvador’s Civil War in Luis Mandoki’s sentimental yet disturbing drama.
Polly Bergen, actress in Hollywood and on Broadway, was on Richard Nixon’s extended Enemies List, along with other liberal Democrat celebrities.
Eddie Murphy Dead? Hoax Continues Unabated + Michael Douglas Is Ronald Reagan in Iceland
Eddie Murphy dead? Then who’s hawking Beverly Hills Cop TV series? Eddie Murphy dead? Hoax continues unabated via social media outlets If Eddie Murphy were dead – according to online …
Jane Bryan: Warner Bros. Ingenue Remembered
Jane Bryan, who played ingenues in several Warner Bros. productions of the late 1930s, died at age 90 on April 8 at her home in Pebble Beach, California. The Los …