The Women remake with Meg Ryan. In the old Margalo Gilmore (on Broadway, 1936), Norma Shearer (1939), and June Allyson (1956) role, 1990s Hollywood Sweetheart Meg Ryan plays a materially…
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…
Considering 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.…
Olivia de Havilland in ‘The Heiress.’ Olivia de Havilland vs. Warner Bros. (See previous post: “Olivia de Havilland Turns 99: Warner Bros. Legal Fight Changed U.S. Labor Law.”) In 1942,…
Debbie Reynolds: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer singing and dancing star. Debbie Reynolds movies: Oscar nominee for ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown,’ sweetness and light in phony ‘The Singing Nun’ Debbie Reynolds is Turner Classic…
Loretta Young: Devout Catholic was featured in numerous sexually daring movies. Loretta Young films: Conservative Catholic actress starred in a number of risqué Pre-Code releases Turner Classic Movies is celebrating…
Cary Grant in ‘I Was a Male War Bride’: Classic gender-bending comedy. Cary Grant films on TCM: Gender-bending comedy classic ‘I Was a Male War Bride,’ reactionary adventure flick ‘Gunga…
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…
Natalie 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…
Wallace 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…
Mary 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,…
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”…
Esther 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…
A 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…
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…
Ralph 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…
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…
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…
“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…
Clark 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…
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…
Sherry Lansing. At the next Oscar ceremony, composer Ennio Morricone will be honored with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Honorary Award, while former Paramount chairperson Sherry Lansing…
Pat O’Brien: Actor was James Cagney’s partner in eight Warner Bros. movies. Pat O’Brien: Actor was Hollywood’s prolific ‘Resident Irishman’ & favorite priest Remember Pat O’Brien? In case you don’t,…
Audrey Long: Actress in films noirs and Westerns, and the widow of The Saint creator Leslie Charteris. Audrey Long dead at 92: Actress in B movies and author Leslie Charteris widow Actress…
Ramon Novarro ca. 1925. Ramon Novarro: Mexican-born actor was first Latin American Hollywood superstar Mexican-born actor Ramon Novarro, the original Ben-Hur and one of MGM’s biggest stars of the late…
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…
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…
June 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.…
Starring Queen of MGM Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford, George Cukor’s all-female 1939 bitchfest The Women is getting another facelift.