Antihero Ricardo Cortez: Best movies and roles during Pre-Code and silent eras + Oscar-Winning Cinematographer brother Stanley Cortez.
William A. Seiter
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Groucho Marx Movies: From classic A Night at the Opera to disastrous The Story of Mankind plus still pertinent political satire Duck Soup.
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Loretta Young Films: Conservative Catholic actress featured in suggestive, socially and sexually daring pre-Code motion pictures.
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Myrna Loy. John Wayne movies 6:00 AM FLYING LEATHERNECKS (1951) A World War II Marine officer drives his men mercilessly during the battle for Guadalcanal. Director: Nicholas Ray. Cast: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter, Jay…
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Paul Leni’s The Man Who Laughs, starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin. Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Alida Valli, Pierre Brasseur, Angela Lansbury, Conrad Veidt, Sean Connery, John Wayne, Gene Wilder,…
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Ginger Rogers is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of March. Most of the films – perhaps all of them – have been shown on TCM before. So, don’t…
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Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in Gilda Glenn Ford will have his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Friday, Aug. 7. The Turner Classic Movies Glenn Ford marathon will…
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Sing and Like It (movie 1934) review: A capable ensemble of below-the-title names is put to good use in this Damon Runyon-esque B comedy. ZaSu Pitts and Pert Kelton star.
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Hello, Everybody! (movie 1933) review: This nonsensical musical provided stout radio and stage singer Kate Smith with a rare big-screen role. Randolph Scott and Sally Blane costar.
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Her Wild Oat, starring Colleen Moore, has been found and restored. Photos are courtesy of the Joseph Yranski Collection. Last March 29, I went to an Academy-sponsored Hollywood screening of…
Rita Hayworth: Gilda was career peak. Rita Hayworth is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Evening. TCM will be presenting the quintessential Hayworth in Gilda at 5 p.m. PT. That’ll…
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Saturday, August 23, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: There are some who find Laurel & Hardy painfully funny. There are others who find them merely…
Jean Arthur was Columbia’s top star of the 1930s and early 1940s. Jean Arthur starred in numerous classics, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and You Can’t Take It with You. Jean Arthur died in 1991.