Longines Chronoscope Interviews, 1951, v.9: Dean Rusk, Representative Clarence Brown
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
How many esteemed American movies satisfy the following conditions? • Derived from a novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author; • Made within a year of the book's publication; • Shot with evocative distinction in and around the author's hometown; • Recruited the author's favorite riding horse for a conspicuous role; • Pleased the author but failed at the box-office despite overwhelmingly...
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Robert Montgomery and Joan Crawford in Lette Lynton. The white cotton organdy gown by Adrian , real name Adrian Adolph Greenberg, is one of his most famous and influential designs. A copy of the dress was mass produced to help promote the film and over half-a-million were sold at Macy's. I can just imagine a depression era housewife assuring her husband that the dress is an investment, or just perfect...
Self-Styled Siren (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Via Lou Lumenick : If you move quickly, you can see the legendarily unavailable Letty Lynton at Youtube. The Siren agrees with Lou on all points. A must for Pre-Code and Joan fans. The Siren and Operator 99 of Allure both watched last night and the movie is quite beautiful, even in this format. Clarence Brown had a very graceful sense of framing, the staging of the climax is unforgettable and there...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
looking for a film chalk full of favorites? clarence brown (garbo's favorite) directed this tale of upper class gal meets and falls for lower class gambler in 1931's 'a free soul.' everyone gets pretty beat up while learning lessons the hard way but above the gaming tables, in a chic little hideaway, clark and norma play cat and mouse with plenty chemistry. her clothes that barely stay on her frame,...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Clarence Brown grew up in the South, and once witnessed a lynching. The bulk of his career had nothing to do with this experience — swank vehicles for MGM leading ladies, executed with more than the usual panache. But in 1949, he broke totally from the style he’d developed, and addressed directly a subject that [...]
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Henry Gibson passed away last Monday at age 73. Current television viewers probably remember him from his role as Judge Clarence Brown on Boston Legal, but Baby Boomers will always picture him holding a large flower and reciting poetry on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. Laugh-In was a rapid-fire sketch comedy show that was “must see TV” [...]
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Earlier this week we published a profile of Hollywood star Esther Ralston . So beautiful was Esther, she was dubbed The American Venus , after the film of the same name in which she starred. Sadly, Esther had a weakness for bad men and her career was seriously derailed by three failed marriages to: an emotionally unstable gambler, an emotionally unstable drunk, and an emotionally unstable ladies man....
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Beloved American comedy actor HENRY GIBSON has died, aged 73.The TV and film star lost his battle with cancer and passed away at his home in Malibu, California on...
Yikes! (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
From Laugh-In to Boston Legal , Who didn't love the many faces of Henry Gibson? I know I did. Sadly, Gibson died Monday at his home in Malibu after a brief battle with cancer. He was 73. There it is again ... cancer ... I hate cancer. Gibson's breakthrough came in 1968 when he was cast as a member of the original ensemble of NBC's top-rated "Laugh-In," on which he performed for three seasons....
Stupid Celebrities Gossip (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Henry Gibson, the comic character actor best known for reciting offbeat poetry on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” has died at the age of 73. Read more on Henry Gibson’s death below. Gibson’s son, James, said his father died Monday at his home in Malibu after a short battle with cancer. Henry Gibson served in the Air Force, [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
LOS ANGELES — Henry Gibson, the veteran comic character actor best known for his role reciting offbeat poetry on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," has died. He was 73. Gibson's son, James, said Gibson died Monday at his home in Malibu after a brief battle with cancer. After serving in the Air Force and studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Gibson – born James Bateman...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Henry Gibson, the veteran comic character actor best known for his role reciting offbeat poetry on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," has died. He was 73.
Zap2it.com - News (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Henry Gibson, the veteran comic character actor best known for his role reciting offbeat poetry on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," has died. He was 73.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Two men were charged today in the Saturday shooting of two people in Independence. Kenneth Porchia, of Independence, and Clarence Brown, of Kansas City, were charged with aggravated assault and armed criminal action for shooting two people on Concord Circle, according to Officer Tom Gentry of the Independence Police Department.
US Official Tabloid Gossip (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
Related searches: Grapes of Wrath, advise and consent movie, henry fonda, dust bowl, john steinbeck, the wrong man On Saturday, August 1, 8:00 PM TCM will air producer Darryl Zanuck's and director John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath . Over half a century later, we tend to forget the minor miracle that conservative prewar Hollywood produced a powerful and radical film that according to author John Steinbeck...
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