Technicolor siren Virginia Mayo was most impressive as callous black-and-white women in films like The Best Years of Our Lives + White Heat.
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Ann Blyth today on TCM Ann Blyth today: Light songs and heavy drama on TCM Ann Blyth, a 1940s Universal leading lady best remembered for her Oscar-nominated performance as Joan …
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Doris Day may have been – once again – absurdly bypassed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors, but at least she’ll be getting some …
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Turner Classic Movies’ look at Arabs in Hollywood movies continues this evening with six movies. Why exactly Gabriel Pascal’s film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) is …
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Betsy Blair, best known for her Academy Award-nominated performance as Ernest Borgnine’s love interest in the 1955 Oscar- and Palme d’Or-winning drama Marty, and for her marriage to Gene Kelly, …
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Edward G. Robinson. One of the greatest film actors of all time: Edward G. Robinson can be appreciated on Wednesday, Aug. 20, on Turner Classic Movies. Like Barbara Stanwyck, TCM’s …
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The Damned Don’t Cry (movie 1950) review: Based on the Bugsy Siegel and Virginia Hill affair, Vincent Sherman’ skillful crime drama is Joan Crawford’s second best Warners vehicle.
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Il Grido (movie 1957) review: Michelangelo Antonioni’s acclaimed neorealist drama stars an outstanding Steve Cochran. Also in the cast: Alida Valli and Betsy Blair.
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Alida Valli – Part I Valli looked considerably older, her features hardened, when she resumed her career in 1957. That year, she appeared in three productions: Glauco Pellegrini’s Spanish-Italian L’Amore …
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Carmen Miranda costume + memorabilia exhibition billed as largest in the world to showcase extravagantly garbed Brazilian Bombshell +iconic Hollywood star.
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Joan Crawford young and entrepreneurial in Mildred Pierce. Joan Crawford young & middle-aged on DVD Joan Crawford, unfairly misremembered as a maternal ogress with a wire-hanger fixation, was actually one …
Sandro Panseri in Ermanno Olmi’s Il Posto. In the next few hours, Turner Classic Movies will present one of MGM’s last silent films (with synchronized score), one of the best …
Matte Painting artwork + Robert Mitchum Interviews with Roger Ebert in which The Night of the Hunter actor disses Steve McQueen and Robert Wise.
Michelangelo Antonioni movies at LACMA “Modernist Master: Michelangelo Antonioni,” is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (website) retrospective honoring the Italian filmmaker, whose body of work includes revered classics …