Technicolor siren Virginia Mayo was most impressive as callous black-and-white women in films like The Best Years of Our Lives + White Heat.
Jayne Meadows. Three-time Emmy nominee Jayne Meadows dead at 95 Jayne Meadows, best known for her show business partnership with husband and television personality Steve Allen, died at age 95…
Teresa Wright The Men publicity shot: Her career was derailed following a nasty, public fight with independent mogul Samuel Goldwyn. Teresa Wright & Samuel Goldwyn association comes to a nasty,…
The Best Years of Our Lives: Blockbuster with Teresa Wright, Fredric March, Myrna Loy, and Michael Hall. Teresa Wright: Missing out on ‘Duel in the Sun,’ but scoring with ‘The…
Teresa Wright. Teresa Wright: Actress made Oscar history Teresa Wright, best remembered for her Oscar-winning performance in the World War II melodrama Mrs. Miniver and for her deceptively fragile, small-town…
‘Some Like It Hot’ with Marilyn Monroe: Partly shot at the United Artists Studios a.k.a. the Warner Hollywood Studios a.k.a. The Lot. Historic Warner Hollywood Studios to be torn down…
Porgy and Bess film version with Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge: one of this year’s additions to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Samuel Goldwyn’s final production, the Otto…
Wuthering Heights with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier as star-crossed lovers Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff: Independent mogul Samuel Goldwyn’s favorite among his movies. ‘Wuthering Heights’: ‘Hollywood’s Greatest Year’ continues with…
As the title implies, BearManor Media’s The History of Independent Cinema covers the century-long development of – American – filmmaking outside the big-studio lots. Now, who were those independents? Well,…
Miriam Hopkins: Becky Sharp star. Remembering Miriam Hopkins Although relatively forgotten and, when remembered, usually dismissed as a second-rate talent (quite possibly by those who have never seen her on…
‘Porgy and Bess’: Rare movie version of George Gershwin musical New York screening The Samuel Goldwyn-produced, Otto Preminger-directed 1959 musical Porgy and Bess “was a much-touted, much-seen and in some…
Alfred Hitchcock heroine Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt, facing serial killer Joseph Cotten. Teresa Wright in ‘Shadow of a Doubt’: Alfred Hitchcock heroine in the director’s favorite film…
J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye was never made into a movie. Upon learning of author J.D. Salinger’s death at the age of 91, I immediately thought of Phil…
Author and film historian Anthony Slide has another book out, (politically) Incorrect Entertainment or Trash from the Past: A history of political incorrectness and bad taste in 20th century American…