The Women remake: Critics derided + moviegoers were indifferent to writer-director Diane English’s defanged + declawed all-star all-female feminist comedy.
Rosalind Russell
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John Boles. Actor & singer John Boles remembered On March 4, Turner Classic Movies is remembering actor-singer John Boles, a name that even the majority of film historians and connoisseurs …
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Gay Hollywood on TCM
7 minutes readConsidering everything that’s been happening on the planet in the last several months, you’d have thought we’re already in November or December – of 2117. But no. It’s only June. …
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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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Loretta Young Films: Conservative Catholic actress featured in suggestive, socially and sexually daring pre-Code motion pictures.
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Cary Grant Films: From I Was a Male War Bride to Miscast Macho Aviator + Submarine Commander
8 minutes readCary Grant Films: Gender-Bending Comedy I Was a Male War Bride with Grant as French wife but badly miscast in macho roles.
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Audrey Long: actress in film noir classics Desperate, Born to Kill has died. She was married to The Saint author Leslie Charteris.
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Natalie Wood Movies: Gypsy + Splendor in the Grass
7 minutes readNatalie Wood movies: Actress was one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1960s. Natalie Wood movies: From going crazy over Warren Beatty to stripping like Gypsy Rose Lee Three-time …
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Wallace Beery Movies: Anomalous Hollywood Star Was Oscar Winner AND Runner-Up in Same Year
12 minutes readWallace Beery in Min and Bill, with Marie Dressler. Wallace Beery movies: TCM offers a glimpse into actor’s extensive filmography According to the IMDb, the Wallace Beery Filmography features nearly …
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Mary Boland: Actress & Inveterate Scene-Stealer in ‘The Women’ & ‘Pride and Prejudice’
5 minutes readMary Boland Mary Boland movies: Scene-stealing actress has her ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day Turner Classic Movies will dedicate the next 24 hours, Sunday, Aug. 4, not to Lana Turner, …
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Esther Williams: ‘Swimming ’40s’ Movie Star
8 minutes readEsther Williams. Esther Williams: Swimwear-garbed star of MGM Technicolor musicals dead at 91 Esther Williams, known for her swimming skills and ability to smile and keep her make-up and coiffure …
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Luise Rainer: Oldest living Oscar winner. Luise Rainer: Oldest Living Oscar winner turns 103 today Luise Rainer, the recipient of two back-to-back Best Actress Oscars in the mid-1930s, is the …
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George Cukor Gay Woman’s Director Nonsense
7 minutes readA Bill of Divorcement with Katharine Hepburn and David Manners: 1932 George Cukor drama. George Cukor ‘gay Woman’s Director’? Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his …
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Ralph Bellamy Movies: ‘Sunrise at Campobello’ & ‘Carefree’
6 minutes readRalph Bellamy in Sunrise at Campobello, with Greer Garson: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. Ralph Bellamy was what many would call a “dependable” player: always there (nearly 100 movies), always …
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Paulette Goddard in Modern Times. Paulette Goddard wouldn’t have a special place in the Pantheon of movie stars if it hadn’t been for her close personal and professional association with …
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Playwright-screenwriter Arthur Laurents died in his sleep on May 5 in New York City. He was 93. Best known for writing the book for the Broadway smashes West Side Story …
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“Summer Under the Stars” is over, but Kim Novak is the “star of tonight” on Turner Classic Movies. Five Novak vehicles released at the height of her stardom will be …
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June Havoc: Gypsy Rose Lee Sister + Baby Jane Similarities
4 minutes readJune Havoc, best known as the younger sister of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, died Sunday of natural causes at her home in Stamford, Conn. She was believed to be 97. …
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Clark Gable Movies: China Seas + Idiot’s Delight
6 minutes readClark Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty, with Charles Laughton. Clark Gable has his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Wednesday, Aug. 12. Turner Classic Movies will present thirteen of …
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Sherry Lansing: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award goes to former Paramount CEO and cancer research advocate who produced Oscar-nominated Fatal Attraction.
Debbie Reynolds Movies: The Singing Nun Offers Sunny Contrast to Tragic Life of Sister Jeanne Deckers whose song Dominique became global hit.
William Holden Movies: Two ‘Wild’ Westerns
William Holden. William Holden movies: The Bridge on the River Kwai William Holden is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” featured actor on Aug. 21. Throughout the day, TCM …
Alec Guinness Movies: ‘Star Wars’ Star’s Fagin Caused Stir
Alec Guinness. Alec Guinness movies: Pre-‘Star Wars’ Guinness runs the gamut from Dickens’ Fagin to Japanese businessman romancing Rosalind Russell Alec Guinness is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” …
James Farentino: Sandra Dee + Patty Duke Leading Man
James Farentino, best remembered for the television series The Bold Ones: The Lawyers and Dynasty, died at age 73 on Jan. 24 in Los Angeles. A Brooklyn native (born on …
Barbra Streisand Gypsy Fail: Arthur Laurents Says ‘No’
Gypsy 1962 with Rosalind Russell. Barbra Streisand won’t be playing Mama Rose in a film version of the Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents Broadway hit Gypsy, Laurents himself told The Hartford …
Between Oct. 25–28, Aberystwyth’s National Library of Wales and the Aberystwyth Arts Centre will host the newly created film festival Fflics – Wales Screen Classics. Fflics will screen about 30 …