Movie Buff: Author Anthony Slide discusses neglected area in film history – the humorous and/or tragic lives and times of film fanatics + collectors.
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Yvonne Monlaur: Sensuous cult horror movie actress and James Bond Girl contender whose career was nearly ruined following boat explosion has died.
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Danièle Delorme: Rare woman director muse and pioneering female movie producer also featured in blockbuster bigger than Star Wars.
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Glenda Jackson: Labour MP and 2-Time Best Actress Oscar Winner will return to acting after two decades in British politics.
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Simone Simon: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale was seen in nearly 40 films, seducing men old and young sometimes with deadly results.
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Simone Simon: La Bête Humaine (1938) Deadly Sex Kitten in 1 of Jean Renoir’s most known films. Off screen, she romanced real-life James Bond.
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Actor George Baker, best known for playing Tiberius in the British television series I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, died on Oct. 7 according to The …
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Claudette Colbert Paramount star Those who remember Claudette Colbert, Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” featured player today, will likely picture a woman raising her skirt so as to …
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Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in 7th Heaven, which helped – along with Sunrise and Street Angel – to earn Gaynor the first-ever Best Actress Academy Award. Frank Borzage’s 7th …
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Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris. The scandalous film was reviled by Lucille Ball, admired by Robert Altman, and reinterpreted by Ingmar Bergman Maria …
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AFI FEST Awards’ top winner was Lee Isaac Chung’s Rwandan genocide film Munyurangabo. In the photo: Jenny Lund, Nash Edgerton, Lauren Greenfield, Jeffrey Schwarz, Andreas Mol Dalsgaard, Michael Addis. Lee …
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Film noir New York: Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Whenever I think of film noir, I – somewhat incongruously – immediately picture murder and mayhem …
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Janet Gaynor: First Best Actress Academy Award winner “Has anyone in Hollywood ever had a trajectory quite like the career and reputation of Janet Gaynor?” inquires Los Angeles Times film …
Marc Allégret: From André Gide Protégé (and lover) to Simone Simon Mentor. Allégret was one of French cinema’s greatest starmakers.
Jean Gabin was France’s answer to Humphrey Bogart, many (English-language) historians have claimed. Either that, or Gabin was France’s answer to Spencer Tracy. Never mind the fact that Gabin was …
If Clark Gable was the King of Hollywood, then Tyrone Power was its – more handsome, more charming, more pleasant – Crown Prince. Allan Ellenberger has reported on and posted …