Four-time Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress Barbara Stanwyck delivered many of the 20th century’s most captivating big-screen performances.
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Technicolor 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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Jayne Meadows dead at 95: Minor Movie Actress Became Emmy-Nominated Television Celebrity and wife of TV personality Steve Allen.
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Teresa Wright and Samuel Goldwyn had an ugly parting in 1948, when the producer publicly fired and berated his Oscar-winning contract star.
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Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt: Alfred Hitchcock heroine in his favorite film now a classic but not so ardently received upon its release.
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Teresa Wright: Actress Made Oscar History for her work in The Little Foxes, Mrs Miniver and The Pride of the Yankees – feat still unmatched.
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Historic Warner Hollywood Studios to Be Torn Down. Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford and Sandra Bullock among those who worked there.
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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…
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Wuthering Heights Movie: Excellent Merle Oberon but hammy Laurence Olivier in Samuel Goldwyn 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominee from Emily Brontë novel.
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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,…
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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…
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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…
Teresa Wright in ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’: Mammoth Blockbuster was Career Highlight as stardom slipped shortly afterwards.
Porgy and Bess film: Costly and controversial + hard-to-find black musical version of Gershwin Broadway hit is most notable LoC National Registry entry.
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…