Actress Sandra Dee is seen as a sweet-looking but gutsy rule-breaker in the 1959 blockbusters A Summer Place and Imitation of Life.
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Here’s a brief look – to be expanded – at Turner Classic Movies’ June 2017 European Vacation Movie Series this evening, June 23. Tonight’s destination of choice is Italy. Starring…
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Claudette Colbert and Maurice Chevalier in The Smiling Lieutenant. Claudette Colbert movies: From ‘The Smiling Lieutenant’ to ‘Skylark’ Claudette Colbert, the studio era’s perky, independent-minded – and French-born – “all-American”…
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Lana Turner: Scandals on- and off-screen. Lana Turner movies: Scandal and more scandal Lana Turner is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Saturday, Aug. 10. I’m a…
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Chad Everett Medical Center & The Singing Nun actor has died Handsome television and film actor Chad Everett, best remembered as Dr. Gannon in the TV drama series Medical Center, died…
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I Love Lucy actress Doris Singleton played Lucy Ricardo’s snooty, class-conscious neighbor in the highly popular 1950s sitcom. She died at age 92 on June 26. Initially, Singleton was a…
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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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Christmas Films: Unusual Macho John Travolta as cross between Elvis Presley + David Bowie, while Sandra Dee Topples Tree in John Waters inspiration?
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Imitation of Life movie: Lana Turner, Karen Dicker, Juanita Moore, and Terry Burnham. Douglas Sirk’s classic melodrama Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner, will have its 50th anniversary celebrated with…
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Early 1960s Top 10 box office star Sandra Dee personified American cinema’s idealized adolescence + young womanhood – but with an undercurrent of disaffection.
Douglas Sirk blockbuster Imitation of Life, with Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, and Karin Dicker. Douglas Sirk movies: ‘Imitation of Life,’ ‘Written on the Wind’ Douglas Sirk is Turner Classic Movies’…
Stairway to Heaven & Orpheus: 2 radically different fantasies focus on that mysterious space in between what’s called A Matter of Life and Death.