Barbara Stanwyck: Busy Hollywood actress known as a “consummate professional,” Stanwyck never took home a competitive Academy Award even though, over the course of her 35-year film career, she delivered…
Submarine movie evening: Underwater war waged in TCM’s Memorial Day films In the U.S., Turner Classic Movies has gone all red, white, and blue this 2017 Memorial Day weekend, presenting…
Antarctic exploration with Sir Ernest Shackleton. Antarctic exploration ‘epic’: ‘South’ It was surprising to see the large crowd waiting to get into the 2012 San Francisco Silent Film Festival screening…
Carole Lombard: Screwball comedienne and dramatic actress of the 1930s. Best remembered for her light comedies of the 1930s and early 1940s, Carole Lombard is Turner Classic Movies Star of…
Joan Bennett movies: Scarlet Street Joan Bennett is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Evening this Wednesday, May 11. TCM has already shown Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945), in which…
Jean Harlow in Libeled Lady with William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy. Turner Classic Movies’ Jean Harlow film series continues this evening with four of Harlow’s MGM vehicles –…
Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard in Mutiny on the Bounty 1962: Veteran director Lewis Miletone bypassed. Previous post: Biggest Oscar Snubs: Michael Nyman for The Piano, Lee Smith for Inception,…
Adolphe Menjou, Lionel Stander, Fredric March, Janet Gaynor in William A. Wellman’s A Star Is Born (top); March in William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (bottom) Fredric March,…
The Godfather movies: Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 The Godfather. This week at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation’s in Culpeper,…
Ricardo Montalban, who co-starred in several 1940s MGM musicals and later played the mysterious host in the long-running 1970s TV series Fantasy Island, died this morning at his Los Angeles…
John Wayne Centennial Screening In celebration of John Wayne’s centennial, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will premiere a new restoration of The High and the Mighty (1954),…
Thomas Edison ‘Frankenstein’ 1910 owner Alois F. Dettlaff found dead Alois F. Dettlaff, the film archivist responsible for preserving the only surviving print of Thomas Edison’s 1910 film adaptation of…
Experimental cult classic Track of the Cat: Featuring a stellar cast, William A. Wellman’s family drama is one of several new DVDs with a little-known connection to Hollywood star and…
“John Wayne DVD collection”: Long unavailable, William A. Wellman’s 1954 all-star (near-)disaster blockbuster The High and the Mighty is undoubtedly the highlight of the upcoming – unofficial – “John Wayne…
Leonardo DiCaprio: Will the Titanic, Gangs of New York, and The Aviator actor next be seen on the big-screen as a 1930s gangster or as a Federal Bureau of Investigation…