Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Recently in the home theater, Hitchcock's personal favorite, "Shadow of a Doubt." It is arguably his best constructed film, in my mind: tight, real menace in an otherwise bucolic setting, and brilliant acting from Joseph Cotton (in his prime) and...
The Cutting Edge (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
I posted that short video extract a couple days ago (The Greatest Movie Line ever..."Ghost Breakers") and sort of felt bad that I didn't even recognize Bob freakin' Hope. Weak in the movie-fu know-who. There may be something to say for that, but Bob Hope? Sheesh. But this famous YouTube "Women in Film" will test even the best and most knowledgeable movie fan. I know a few; my wife knows many.
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Filed under: Celebrities , Early Looks , Reality-Free Once upon a time, Hollywood made movies like Lifetime's Coco Chanel all the time. They were called women's pictures and gave the biggest stars of the times amazing roles, Bette Davis in Now, Voyager , Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver , Rosiland Russell in Sister Kenny . Watching this excellent TV movie starring Shirley MacLaine as the older Coco and...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Jerry Haynes will don Mr. Peppermint's red-and-white striped jacket and hat once again at the end of the month for the Greer Garson Gala, a Sept. 27 fundraiser for Parkinson's disease research and treatment at Presbyterian Hospital.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
8 p.m. TCM Novelist Aldous Huxley ("Brave New World") co-wrote this 1940 adaptation of Jane Austen's comedy of manners about five husband-hunting sisters of 19th-century England. With Greer Garson (left), Laurence Olivier (right).
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
News: Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Warner Bros. Classic Holiday Collection Volume 2 on 11th November 2008. The latest group of highly requested titles which are making their R1 DVD debut includes All Mine to Give, Holiday Af...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Month-Long Celebration of Hollywood Stars Includes a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly Dance-Off, Back-to-Back Days Celebrating Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, And 13 Stars Getting their First SUMMER UNDER THE STARS Days ATLANTA, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- For the sixth consecutive year, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is dedicating all of August to its SUMMER UNDER THE STARS movie festival, in which each of...
AustenBlog . . . she's everywhere (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
The Telegraph reported that Bruce Lester, who played Mr. Bingley in the 1940 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, has passed away at the age of 96. Lester showed himself to advantage as Mr Bingley, the hero’s dapper and charming friend in MGM’s Pride and Prejudice (1940), which starred Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. In [...]
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Campobello Island, N.B. - On a rainy Fourth of July last year, it was impossible to see the fabled sunrise near Franklin D. Roosevelt's old summer home just north of the border between Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Michael Frayn's Stage Directions offers an illuminating insight into the thoughts and intentions of a deeply sophisticated dramatist, says Simon Callow
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
There's only 297 days left of Bush's presidency (too long!) and I can't imagine anyone being able to suffer him for 298. Which is why I find the whole notion of a W. movie suspect [tangent: my sympathies go out to Starwood Hotels ]. It's so soon. Still the cast that controversy magnet Oliver Stone has gathered is appealing. Josh Brolin as the worst president ever (albeit before he was president), Soon...
cityrag (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Women In Film A beautiful and mesmerizing video that morphs together the faces of 100 of the finest actresses the world has known - Women in Film! Celebrity Time Travelers Modern Renaissance Hollywood Rebirth Mate a Movie
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 02/17/2008
Jimmie (Robert Montgomery) loves Mary (Myrna Loy), who only has eyes for her married publisher Rogers (Frank Morgan). When Mary and Rogers arrange to rendezvous at the country home of a friend (Alice Brady), Jimmie arrives at the house unexpectedly with Rogers' wife, Claire (Ann Harding). The fireworks fly WHEN LADIES MEET. WHEN LADIES MEET is a talky but amusing film in the "sophisticated people at...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
Groener, Dilly, Denman and Finley Set for The Gershwins' An American in ParisErin Dillyphoto by Aubrey ReubenThree-time Tony nominee Harry Groener and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Erin Dilly will star in the world premiere of The Gershwins' An American in Paris, which is scheduled to make its debut at Houston's Alley Theatre in April. Tony-nominated playwright Ken Ludwig – who confirmed casting for the...
LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
5:00pm - PST - Pride And Prejudice (1940) - Jane Austen's comic classic about five sisters out to nab husbands in 19th-century England. Cast: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Edna May Oliver. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-118 mins, TV-PG After years of having it up TO HERE! with all the Harry Connick Jr. talk about him being the [...]
