Oscars’ Westerns: Turner Classic Movies’ ’31 Days of Oscar’ continues with 11 titles, including John Ford’s classic Stagecoach and the so-called Worst Best Picture Winner Ever.
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31 Days of Oscar: Ben-Hur Proves That Bigger not Necessarily Better plus grandiose David Lean while Spencer Tracy nearly ruins British drama.
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Evolution of Movie Sound Technology: Interview with Film Preservationist Robert Gitt plus Douglas Shearer (Norma’s brother) and his 7 Oscars.
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Godzilla 1954 a.k.a. Gojira, with Takashi Shimura and Momoko Kôchi. Somewhat surprisingly, Ishirô Honda’s monster movie tackles the sociocultural upheavals in post-World War II Japan, as the young daughter (Kôchi)…
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Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in It Happened One Night. Mostly a Paramount star, Claudette Colbert hasn’t been a frequent presence on Turner Classic Movies – that is, apart from…
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Fade Out Fade In: Flaring racial tensions and decaying Hollywood Mansions + right-wing pro-war propaganda with iconic all-American hero.
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Spencer Tracy in San Francisco with Jeanette MacDonald. Spencer Tracy is the star of the evening on Turner Classic Movies. My two major recommendations are W. S. Van Dyke’s San…
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Katharine Hepburn movies: The Philadelphia Story, Woman of the Year landmarks in film career of 4-time Best Actress Oscar winner.
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Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor’s Adam’s Rib Raquel Welch is the guest programmer tonight on Turner Classic Movies. Welch and Robert Osborne will be introducing and…
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Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman, and Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue. Sidney Poitier’s “Summer Under the Stars” day is Friday, Aug. 14. Turner Classic Movies will have no Sidney…
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Movie couples: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn. In Leading Couples: The Most Unforgettable Screen Romances of the Studio Era (Chronicle Books,…
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Stanley Kramer in “Film-Making with Spencer Tracy” (essay found in The Films of Spencer Tracy): “I can’t explain why I was never able to say to him what I wanted…
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Film Forum, the New York City institution that about a year ago presented the Paramount Before the Code film series, will be presenting Pre-Code movies from Fox – Fox Before…
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Robert Hays in Airplane! ‘Airplane!’ movie cast at Academy screening The 1980 Airplane! movie writers/directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, and actor Robert Hays will be among those…
Mickey Rooney ca. 1940 Mickey Rooney dead at 93: Four-time Oscar nominee & frequent Judy Garland co-star may have had the longest film career ever Mickey Rooney, four-time Academy Award…
Fredric March as a fictionalized William Jennings Bryan and Spencer Tracy as a fictionalized Clarence Darrow in Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind. Turner Classic Movies’ Fredric March tribute ends tonight…
If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may be wondering why the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre will devote the evening of Feb. 26 to screen two movies as…
Image: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Press Release: The 1967 Best Picture nominees Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Bonnie and Clyde will be screened as the next features in the…