Actress Sandra Dee is seen as a sweet-looking but gutsy rule-breaker in the 1959 blockbusters A Summer Place and Imitation of Life.
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Christian Movies: Religious propaganda or mainstream entertainment? Especially since American cinema has always had major Judeo-Christian slant.
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Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando Leading Lady to spinsters and Mother Roles (Jean Simmons, Sandra Dee) in less than 5 years and The Miracle Worker.
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Pretty Poison with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins: Noel Black-directed cult crime classic. Cult movie classic Pretty Poison filmmaker Noel Black has died Noel Black, best remembered for the 1968…
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Lana Turner: Scandals on- and off-screen. Lana Turner movies: Scandal and more scandal Lana Turner is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Saturday, Aug. 10. I’m a…
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Joan Fontaine. Joan Fontaine today: One of the best actresses of the studio era has her ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day Joan Fontaine, one of the few surviving movie stars…
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Douglas Sirk blockbuster Imitation of Life, with Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, and Karin Dicker. Douglas Sirk movies: ‘Imitation of Life,’ ‘Written on the Wind’ Douglas Sirk is Turner Classic Movies’…
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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…
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Anna Massey in Frenzy. The daughter of Best Actor Oscar nominee Raymond Massey (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, 1940) and the sister of Best Supporting Actor nominee Daniel Massey (Star!, 1968),…
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Stairway to Heaven & Orpheus: 2 radically different fantasies focus on that mysterious space in between what’s called A Matter of Life and Death.
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Christmas Movies: The Good the bad and the bizarre from Gary Cooper + Bette Davis to holiday season serial killer + Santa Claus sing-along horror.
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Angela Lansbury has her “Summer Under the Stars” day on Sunday, Aug. 23. Thanks to the popular TV series Murder She Wrote, Angela Lansbury became a bigger star in the…
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Imitation of Life movie: Lana Turner, Karen Dicker, Juanita Moore, and Terry Burnham. Douglas Sirk’s classic melodrama Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner, will have its 50th anniversary celebrated with…
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Cesar Romero: Hollywood leading man and second lead in the 1930s and 1940s. Cesar Romero centennial tribute: ‘The White Rose’ Los Angeles’ Cervantes Center of Arts & Letters will be…
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Early 1960s Top 10 box office star Sandra Dee personified American cinema’s idealized adolescence + young womanhood - but with an undercurrent of disaffection.
Juanita Moore: Imitation of Life 1959 Oscar-nominated actress. Oscar-nominated ‘Imitation of Life’ actress Juanita Moore has died Juanita Moore, Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee for the 1959 blockbuster Imitation…
Celeste Holm, a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winner who was recently enmeshed in a nasty and costly legal fight with her two sons, died Sunday morning, July 15, at…
Christmas Films: Unusual Macho John Travolta as cross between Elvis Presley + David Bowie, while Sandra Dee Topples Tree in John Waters inspiration?
Robert Goulet: ‘Camelot’ Broadway singer & ‘Beetlejuice’ Hollywood actor dead at 73 Actor-singer Robert Goulet died at age 73 on Oct. 30 in Los Angeles. He was 73. Born on…