Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe joined forces on the problem-plagued The Misfits. See also: The playwright’s answer to On the Waterfront.
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‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Oscar-winning screenwriter Frank Pierson has died Former Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Frank Pierson, among whose screenwriting credits are Dog Day Afternoon, A Star…
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Betty Garrett in My Sister Eileen with Janet Leigh and Jack Lemmon. Her movie career stillborn in the late 1940s, HUAC victim Betty Garrett, whose husband, Larry Parks, was blacklisted,…
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Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sidney Lumet, Murder on the Orient Express. Among Lumet’s most notable big-screen efforts are the U.S. justice system dramas 12 Angry Men and The Verdict; the…
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Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, Bonnie and Clyde, edited by Dede Allen. Dede Allen, best known for editing Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967), died at her Los Angeles home on…
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David Brown, who co-produced modern cinema classics and/or blockbusters such as Jaws, The Verdict, The Player, and A Few Good Men, died on Feb. 1 at his home in Manhattan.…
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Michael Jackson kids and friends at singer’s Holmby Hills mansion. Michael Jackson kids & friends Provided by real estate developer Mohamed Hadid (via image.net), the above photo shows Hadid (left)…
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Sunday, Aug. 24, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: The romantic melodrama Jezebel (actually a Bette Davis vehicle), the courtroom drama 12 Angry Men, and Franklin J. Schaffner’s film adaptation of…
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Cinematographer David Watkin, best known for his work on Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire and Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa, the 1985 Best Picture Academy Award winner starring Meryl Streep…
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Martin Luther King Jr. movie King: A Filmed Record … Montgomery to Memphis. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be screening a rare “pristine print” of the…
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Network movie with William Holden and Peter Finch. Image: © A.M.P.A.S. The year when a boxing Cinderella punched his dim-witted way to a Best Picture Academy Award was the same…
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Screenwriter and playwright Jay Presson Allen died of a stroke yesterday morning at her home in Manhattan. She was 84. The Ft. Worth native (born on March 3, 1922) wrote…
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Maureen Stapleton, whose career in film, on stage, and on television spanned more than five decades, died of chronic pulmonary disease on March 13 at her home in Lenox, Mass.…
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Sidney Lumet movies getting some belated Academy recognition: The Honorary Oscar will go to the Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon director.
Henry Fonda, like James Stewart and Gary Cooper, was one of the prototypical “All-American” actors of the studio era. But if you believe that Fonda’s generally one-dimensional characters represented the…
Michael Jackson, one of the two or three biggest pop-music icons of the second half of the 20th century, died of a heart attack at the UCLA Medical Center in…
Star Wars with Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill. Part four of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series will kick off on Monday, April 23,…
Richard Pryor in Stir Crazy with Gene Wilder. Directed by Best Actor Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field, 1963), the 1980 blockbuster comedy Stir Crazy marked the…