CelluloidKid
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Also read: _The Leading Men of MGM_
*The men in Wayne's book?some producers (Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg), but mostly actors (Clark Gable, John Gilbert, Elvis Presley, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, Spencer Tracy)?are, theoretically, connected because they were all big names on MGM's roster.*
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Another great book for a fan of Joan like me (LO!!) is: *_Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography_*
In this sympathetic biography, Chandler (Ingrid: The Girl Who Walked Home Alone) chronicles Crawford's life?from a brutal Midwest childhood to her self-imposed exile in New York.
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*Turner Classic Movies To Celebrate Clint Eastwood's Birthday With Marathon!*
AHN | All Headline News
Mar 12, 2010
*Burbank, CA, United States (CNS) - Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood has a big birthday coming up and Turner Classic Movies is celebrating the prolific filmmaker and actor's career with a 24-hour marathon and world television premiere of a new documentary.*
The Oscar winner will turn 80 on May 31 and TCM will kick off the marathon at 6 am ET. Some of Eastwood's most popular films will be featured in the run, including "Dirty Harry," "Magnum Force," "Kelly's Heroes" and the American Western "Hang 'Em High."
Fans can also catch the world television premiere of "The Eastwood Factor," an all-new feature-length documentary narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman and written and directed by critic and film historian Richard Schickel.
The documentary will offer fans a rare and personal look into the Hollywood icon, visiting film locations and sites where his movies were created, including the costume department and the Eastwood Scoring Stage on the Warner Bros. lot. Eastwood will also offer candid and humorous interviews about his film, why he choose to do them and numerous clips from his various works.
Read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018086980#ixzz0iNYHwLIs
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*Richard _Quine_* - American stage, film, and radio actor and film director.
Quine was born in Detroit. He made his Broadway debut in the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May in 1939 and appeared in My Sister Eileen the following year. His screen acting credits include The World Moves On (1934), Jane Eyre (1934), My Sister Eileen (1942), and Words and Music (1948), among others.
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*James Earl _Jones_*
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*_The Best of Everything_ (1959)*
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Bruce Dern (John Mayhew) was in: _Hush? Hush, Sweet Charlotte_ (1964) directed by Robert Aldrich!
NEW DIRECTOR: Robert Aldrich!
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Custer .... _The Alamo_ (1960)
*NEW WORD: Iditarod!*
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*Got this for the holidays... Great read too! I love Lana and this helped! LOL!*
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Another great read I found was: _Joan Crawford, a biography_ by Bob Thomas.
Very in depth. I would agree in some ways it's fan-mag gossip, but it still tells a very different side of Joan. It does make you want to red other bios on her,
In any case, unlike many biographers, Thomas does a professional job, striving to be thorough, compassionate, and incisive. He paints a solid portrait of a woman who came from nothing and worked hard and relentlessly to rise from the ashes -- through continual setbacks, she rose like a phoenix again and again, achieving success, fame and fortune (although she would lose that fortune, due to ex-husbands), yet never quite finding the love she so sorely desired.
Great pictures too!
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*A great book I found at a used book store that was very insightful and informative about one of my favorite films: _Imitation of Life_ (1959):*
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.Born to be Hurt is the first in-depth ?biography? of ?Imitation of Life.? Lana Turner, on the brink of personal and professional ruin after her mobster boyfriend Johnny Stompanato was stabbed by her daughter, starred as glamorous actress Lora Meredith. Juanita Moore played the greatest role up to that time for an African-American actress: Lora?s loyal maid and dearest friend. And America?s cutie pie, Sandra Dee, and powerful newcomer Susan Kohner played the daughters, one sunny and blonde and popular, the other tortured and black-passing-for-white.
Staggs traces the movie?s arc from Fannie Hurst?s novel through the writing and casting to the filming, the promotion, and the reception it received. In Born to be Hurt, he combines vast research, extensive interviews with surviving cast members, and superb storytelling to create a rich, revelatory work about one of the twentieth century?s most iconic movies.
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*Happy 100th Birthday, Akira Kurosawa*
Atlantic Online (blog) - Mar 9, 2010
With the centenary of Akira Kurosawa's birth shortly upon us?March 23, for all you film buffs?I'm for anything that mixes up the Japanese director's familiar mythology. His samurai epics still get the bulk of the critical ink?after all, who can turn swords and sandals into poetic agents like Kurosawa? And then there's his pop culture cred: try finding someone at a Comi-Con convention who can't rattle on about Hidden Fortress being an archetype for Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, a sci-fi double-whammy via feudal Japan.
Unfortunately, archetypes?and the attention they get?undermine some of the subtler points of Kurosawa's artistry. Sure, the outmanned-but-persevering band of virtuosos/heroes theme of Seven Samurai inspired The Magnificent Seven?and Inglourious Basterds, for that matter?while the semi-somnolent, cooler-than-thou ethos of Yojimbo was a virtual Ur-text for the spaghetti western movement. Western audiences have always liked the epic side of Kurosawa, but what of Kurosawa the humanist, the artist who could mine a single conversation or a single image for his galvanizing truths?
The quiet, quotidian aspect of Kurosawa's art gets a nice push in the impressively lavish?we're talking stacks of high-grade stills, notes, mockups?Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema (Rizzoli; $75), with a text by film historian Peter Cowie and the requisite foreword by Martin Scorsese, as true a fan of cinema as there ever was. There's no shortage of stills to suggest that Kurosawa could conduct an epic battlefield scene with D.W. Griffith-like ?lan, but it's the close-ups and three-quarter shots that mesmerize. Actor Toshiro Mifune?a Kurosawa stalwart who appeared in more than a dozen of his films?is everywhere, but never more arrestingly than in a still from The Quiet Duel, a neglected film with Mifune playing the part of a syphilis-stricken obstetrician. Clothed in surgical gear, his arms limply bent-upwards?as if pleading?and crossed by a lattice of shadow lines, Mifune is both ghostly and shredded, vague and not vague at once. It's also a shot you could hang on the wall at MOMA.
The Quiet Duel, significantly, dates from 1949. If you go through Kurosawa's filmography, you'll see that there were plenty of big, fairly bombastic films coming out at regular points throughout his career. The King Lear revamp, Ran, is from 1985; Seven Samurai from 1954, Yojimbo from 1961, Dersu Uzala?an eco-parable set in Siberia?from 1975. But it's in the first few years after World War II that Kurosawa set himself up as a master of miniatures.
Stray Dog?also from 1949?is one of cinema's most relentless works, as unmitigating, in its way, as Peckinpah's Straw Dogs or Polanski's Macbeth. There are loads of devils in these details. "The sense of suffocating heat is brought home in repeated shots of people fanning themselves, mopping their perspiring faces with grimy hankies, grasping at a tepid drink or a proffered Popsicle," Cowrie writes. The simple premise?a young detective sets off after a pickpocket who stole his gun, and flirts with criminality himself?results in a docudrama, urban travelogue of sorts. Tiny, person-specific details coalesce to create a portrait of an exceedingly ravaged country with busted-up people all around.
This is the Kurosawa I prefer?the director more in step with the Italian neo-realist movement rather than some of the bloated horse operas of the American Western, a form he loved. He also loved painting and drawing, and Master of Cinema shows that even in his large-scale epics, Kurosawa was in touch with the aesthetic that dominates his late 1940s work. An image drawn for Ran?in crayon, pencil, and pastel?of a warrior stuck with a couple dozen arrows, has the same gruesome grill work as the Quiet Duel still, but now the shadows have become physical objects. The lacerations are present either way, but there's more of the conjurer's art in the postwar films, and a stronger shading of reality too. That's one nifty party trick.
*For a list of the five best Kurosawa films you (probably) haven't seen, click here.*
http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/03/the-5-best-kurosawa-movies-you-havent-seen/37167/
*Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema* by Peter Cowie, Kazuko Kurosawa, Donald Richie, and Martin Scorsese
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James Cameron To Raise The Titanic In 3D
Sky News
Elizabeth Scott
Monday March 15 2010
*James Cameron has confirmed he is bringing back his hit film Titanic to cinemas - but this time it will be in 3D.*
The director plans to raise the 1997 Oscar-winning film in spring 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of the sailing of the ship.
The movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, was the highest grossing film of all time until it was overtaken by Cameron's latest epic Avatar.
Cameron is warning the effects will not be as spectacular as Avatar: "It's never going to look as good as if you shot it in 3D. But think of it as a sort of 2.8D".
Not content with re-releasing Titanic, Cameron is also considering getting Avatar out for a second run as well.
The film has already made billions of dollars worldwide but Cameron believes there is still more cash to be made.
"It's kind of gotten stomped out (of cinemas) because of Alice in Wonderland," he said.
"The word we're getting back from exhibitors is we probably left a couple of hundred million dollars on the table as a result."
The director is thinking about re-releasing Avatar this autumn, possibly with new footage.
Cameron, though admits audiences may not want to see a 10-month-old film.
"The question is (whether) the appetite is still going to be there after the summer glut of movies," Cameron added.
"We're going to assess that. We're talking about maybe adding in additional footage and doing something creative."
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*Wood and Byrne Join Winslet and Pearce in HBO's "Mildred Pierce" Remake*
Playbill.com
By Thomas Peter
15 Mar 2010
Recent Spider Man refugee Evan Rachel Wood and Tony winner Brian F. O'Byrne have joined the cast of HBO-TV's five-hour miniseries adaptation of the James M. Cain novel "Mildred Pierce," according to ew.com.
*Oscar Fashion 2009: Evan Rachel Wood in Elie Saab*
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*Thanks,*
*Wikipedia!!*
The film has been frequently promoted as a sequel to The Lady Vanishes, although the story is not a continuation, and only two of the characters (the two slightly eccentric and cricket-mad English travelers Charters and Caldicott) are carried over.
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Of course it would hve been a hoot to see: _Teenage Rebel_ (1956) ..Sad OOP!
Michael Rennie is in it!!!
A melodrama about a woman who tries to make amends with her teenage daughter that she gave up at the end of an unhappy
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Another film TCM should have incld was:
*_Storm Warning_ (1951)* -- Strange, Curio film in the career of Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, and Ronald Reagan.
.*U can only see "Fred & Ginger" films so many times!?.*
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*Joan Crawford Can be seen in: _Daisy Kenyon_ (1947) on: Mon, Mar 22, 12:00 PM (Arizona Time.) on Fox Movie Channel | Fox Movie Channel*
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*Fri, Mar 26, 2010 4:30 PM (Arizona Time) - Check Local Schedules: Johnny Guitar (1954)*
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*Fri, Mar 26, 2010 4:30 PM (Arizona Time) - Check Local Schedules: _Johnny Guitar_ (1954)*
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*Penny _Marshall_* - After playing several small roles for television, she was cast as Laverne DeFazio in the sitcom Laverne and Shirley. A ratings success, the show ran from 1976 until 1983, and Marshall received three Golden Globe award nominations for her performance.
She progressed to directing films such as Big (1988), *the first film directed by a woman to gross in excess of $100 million at the U.S. box office.*
Awakenings (1990), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, and A League of Their Own (1992).
In more recent years, she has produced Cinderella Man (2005) and Bewitched (2005), as well as episodes of According to Jim (2009).
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*Candleshoe (1977)*
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C.B. DeMille disliked actors who refused to take physical risks. Most notable example was Victor Mature in _Samson and Delilah_ who refused to wrestle a lion.
*Celebri-links ...... Victor Mature!*
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George Raft ws in: _Christmas Eve_ (1947) with Randolph Scott.
*NEW STAR: Randolph Scott.*
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Robert Ryan was in: _Captain Nemo and the Underwater City_ (1969) directed by James Hill!
*NEW DIRECTOR: James Hill!*