Jimmy Stewart. ‘Jimmy’ Stewart: Unlikely Hollywood star enjoyed decades-long career in a variety of genres The personification of all-American aw-shucksiness – of the sort you find only in bad movies…
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Melvyn Douglas. Melvyn Douglas: From suave leading man to Hollywood’s top female stars to first-rate dramatic actor Unlike Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, or Gary Cooper, Melvyn Douglas couldn’t exactly be…
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Pat O’Brien: Actor was James Cagney Partner was one of Hollywood’s busiest leading men and favorite priest of the studio era.
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Coleen Gray Actress: From Red River to Good Girls in Film Noir Classics such as Nightmare Alley and Kiss of Death plus Frank Capra musical.
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Marc Allégret: From André Gide Protégé (and lover) to Simone Simon Mentor. Allégret was one of French cinema’s greatest starmakers.
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Maureen O’Hara Oscar: Honorary Award given to feisty, red-headed The Quiet Man and Rio Grande actress and John Wayne leading lady.
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Hayao Miyazaki. Honorary Oscars 2014: Hayao Miyazaki, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Maureen O’Hara; Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award goes to Harry Belafonte One good thing about the creation of the Academy of…
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John Travolta in the Scientology-inspired movie ‘Battlefield Earth.’ From John Travolta to Bob Dylan, from Ed Wood to Orson Welles: ‘The Greatest Bad Movies of All Time’ Phil Hall’s The…
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Ray Harryhausen: Visual effects titan. Ray Harryhausen: ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ & ‘One Million Years B.C.’ visual-effects artist has died Long before the computer-generated imagery of Jurassic Park, Avatar, The…
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Warner Archive: Debbie Reynolds, seen here with Greer Garson and Ricardo Montalban on the set of The Singing Nun, is one of the featured stars. Warner Archive: Debbie Reynolds & Joan…
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AFI FEST 2011 Guest Artistic Director Pedro Almodóvar has selected the following classic thrillers to be presented at the festival: Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle…
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Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson In the last couple of days, two hand/footprint ceremonies at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre have been announced: Mickey Rourke will dirty his hands and feet…
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Linda Darnell. Linda Darnell, the gorgeous leading lady of numerous 20th Century Fox productions of the 1940s, is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” player on Aug. 27. TCM,…
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Linda Christian, an actress in international films and Tyrone Power’s second wife, died Friday (July 22) in Palm Springs, California. Christian, who was 87, had been suffering from colon cancer.…
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Annabella in René Clair’s Le Million Though best remembered as Tyrone Power’s first wife, Annabella (1907-1996) was a major star in France before she came to Hollywood in 1938 to…
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Maureen O’Hara movies include William Dieterle’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry King’ The Black Swan, and John Ford’s The Quiet Man. Maureen O’Hara, who is turning 90, is Turner…
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Cécile Aubry, the leading lady in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1949 drama Manon and Tyrone Power’s romantic interest in the 1950 period adventure The Black Rose, died of lung cancer on July…
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Wholesome silent era superstars Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks drawn by Vargas (probably best known for his drawings of naked and semi-naked women in Playboy), Motion Picture Long before Robert Pattinson,…
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Annabella, Tyrone Power, Annabella’s daughter Anne, whom Power adopted Tyrone Power V: Sexual Orientation Rumors Janet Gaynor, Sonja Henie, Norma Shearer, Lana Turner – were those romances for real, or…
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Tyrone Power III: Gay Rumors, Errol Flynn So if Tyrone Power was off having gay liaisons while he was at Fox, it was in another part of the world in…
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Tyrone Power and Loretta Young. Tyrone Power I: Hollywood Career Rumors of a Tyrone Power-Errol Flynn romance. Total myth? Is there any evidence that Power was at all attracted to…
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Tyrone Power: Q&A with researcher Maria Ciaccia about one of the biggest film stars of the 20th century Among the romantic leading men of the studio era, Tyrone Power, 20th…
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Karl Malden, Tyrone Power in Diplomatic Courier (1952) Karl Malden, who won a best supporting actor Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951, died “of natural causes” at his…
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Turner Classic Movies’ series “Race in Hollywood: Latino Images in Film” kicks off this evening. So what if “Latino” isn’t a “race“? So what if it isn’t even an ethnic…
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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,…
Teresa Wright: From Broadway triumph (minus Tony nomination) to cult classic Somewhere in Time and The Rainmaker with Matt Damon.
Carla Laemmle. ‘Dracula’ 1931 actress Carla Laemmle dead at 104 Carla Laemmle, a bit player in a handful of silent movies and at the dawn of the sound era –…
Lon McCallister: Boy-Next-Door troubled gay relationship with William Eythe If remembered at all, Lon McCallister is associated with Boy-Next-Door roles in several 20th Century Fox “family” movies of the mid-…
Joan Blondell biography: A Life Between Takes. Joan Blondell. Those who have heard the name will most likely picture either a blowsy, older woman playing the worldwise but warm-hearted saloon…
Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven In my view, Gene Tierney was not only one of the most beautiful but also one of the most underrated…
Mai Zetterling, Tyrone Power. Two two co-starred in the 1957 drama Seven Waves Away / Abandon Ship. Tyrone Power IV: Bisexuality, Cesar Romero Rumors [Right: Tyrone Power in Jesse James.]…
Yul Brynner has his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Wednesday, Aug. 26. Inevitably, The King and I (1956), the movie that earned Brynner an Academy Award and turned him…
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