Vivien Leigh ca. late 1940s. Vivien Leigh movies: now controversial ‘Gone with the Wind,’ little-seen ’21 Days Together’ on TCM Vivien Leigh is Turner Classic Movies’ star today, Aug. 18, ’15, as TCM’s “Summer Under…
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson in That Hamilton Woman. Vivien Leigh biography, movies, and photo exhibit among centenary celebrations [See previous post: “Vivien Leigh Turns 100: Centenary of One…
Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh: Legendary ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ star would have turned 100 today Vivien Leigh was perhaps the greatest film star that hardly ever was. What I mean…
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 one of the six, I…
1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees: Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind, that year’s eventual winner. 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees on TCM Turner Classic Movies’ homage to the 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees continues…
Pinky movie with a “black” Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters. Although absurdly miscast as a light-skinned part-white/part-black young woman whose grandmother is Ethel Waters, Jeanne Crain received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for Elia…
Marion Davies in King Vidor’s Show People. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which decades ago was the most financially stable of the Hollywood studios, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. MGM – initially Metro-Goldwyn – was formed through…
Vivien Leigh death on film: Tragic fate in Anna Karenina 1948. Turner Classic Movies’ Vivien Leigh series comes to a close on Tuesday, Sept. 28, with four movies from Leigh’s post-Gone with the Wind period,…
Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh, one of the greatest performers of the 20th century, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in September. That’s the good news. The bad news: TCM won’t be showing rarities…
Warren Beatty in Reds with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton. Eleven Warren Beatty movies will be shown on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, Aug. 9, as part of TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” series. Two of…
Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw is tonight’s star on Turner Classic Movies. Major Barbara (1941), directed by Gabriel Pascal, and starring Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller, is on right now. I’ve watched…
Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor Waterloo Bridge Robert Taylor is April 2010’s Star of the Month on Turner Classic Movies. The Robert Taylor Tuesday evening has already begun: Camille (1937), in which he co-stars with Greta…