Alice Guy Blaché: The world’s first woman director is remembered in this q&a with film historian Anthony Slide, who also discusses the republication of her book of memoirs.
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Miriam Hopkins interview with biographer Allan Ellenberger: Talented + mercurial actress was ‘Hollywood Rebel’ or ‘Magnificent Bitch’?
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Theodore Bikel: Social and Union Activist, Vanessa Redgrave ‘The Palestinian’ Spat and stance against Israeli settlements.
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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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Fred MacMurray: The All-American jerk in movies such as Double Indemnity and The Apartment. Fred MacMurray movies: ‘Double Indemnity’ & There’s Always Tomorrow’ Fred MacMurray is Turner Classic Movies’ 2013…
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Dean Martin would have turned 94 years old on Tuesday, June 7. Generally a somnolent presence in low-brow comedies co-starring either Jerry Lewis or Frank Sinatra, Martin was at his…
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John Forsythe in Dynasty with Joan Collins and Linda Evans. John Forsythe, best known as the oil tycoon Blake Carrington on the television series Dynasty, died on April 1 at…
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Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin in On the Town. Bobby-soxer-turned-blue-haired-matron idol Frank Sinatra will have his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Friday, Aug. 28. Turner Classic Movies will…
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Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (top); Julie Christie and Warren Beatty in Shampoo (bottom). Cameron Crowe and Peter Bart will host a panel discussion with Haskell…
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Tribute to Spanish filmmaker and painter Adorfo Arrieta (above, with Arrieta section programmer Donatello Fumarola), among whose cinematic efforts are El crimen de la pirindola and Jouet criminel. Photos: B.…
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Anne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate dead at 73 Anne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and the longtime wife of Mel Brooks, died of uterine cancer on July…
Andy Kaufman death hoax: Contagious Internet disease continues to spread. Andy Kaufman alive? Or Andy Kaufman death hoax? New York City-born comedian Andy Kaufman, little known outside the United States…
Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw in Love Story, written by Erich Segal. Erich Segal, whose screenplay and novel Love Story became worldwide hits, has died. Segal, who had been suffering…
In late August, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program will present “Billy Wilder’s Europe,” a seven-film series showcasing samples of the…