Category: Classic Hollywood
Warner Bros. to release Samuel Goldwyn film library on DVD
WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT GROUP ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO 70 FILMS FROM THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN LIBRARY Agreement Covers Nearly Every Film in the Goldwyn Library Including The Best Years of Our Lives, Wuthering Heights, The Pride of the Yankees, Guys and Dolls, Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop’s Wife Burbank, Calif. (March 30, 2012) – Warner [...]
James Arness dies at 88; TV’s Marshal Dillon on landmark ‘Gunsmoke’ series
By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times June 3, 2011, 10:00 a.m. James Arness, the towering actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon, the strong and commanding symbol of frontier justice on the landmark TV western series "Gunsmoke," died Friday. He was 88. To see the rest of the story at latimes.com: http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-me-james-arness-20110604,0,1034881.story
Hollywood actor Jackie Cooper dead at 88
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Jackie Cooper, who survived a tumultuous childhood as an Oscar-nominated star to enjoy a varied career as a TV executive, director and "Superman" sidekick, died near Los Angeles, his attorney said on Wednesday. He was 88. Cooper succumbed to complications of old age at a convalescent home in the coastal [...]
MGM Turns 87
On April 16, 1924 Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In honor of MGM's 87th birthday here is a clip of the MGM logo from one of the first films under the MGM banner. This clip is from the 1924 film "He Who Gets Slapped".
Charlie Chaplin Google Doodle
The Google Doodle team stars in an homage to the silent film era's greatest star's 122nd birthday.
Local History on Louis B. Mayer (MGM) on Around Town with Larry Seaman
Local History on Louis B. Mayer (MGM) on Around Town with Larry Seaman.
After Her Death, Elizabeth Taylor’s Connection With Israel Is Revealed
Yesterday, the world lost one of its greatest stars as Elizabeth Taylor passed away at the age of 79. While she will go down in the history books as an Oscar winner and remembered in her iconic role as Cleopatra, her connection to the State of Israel played a significant role throughout her life. Thanks [...]
TCM Remembers Two-Time Oscar®-Winning Actress and Beloved Humanitarian Elizabeth Taylor on Sunday, April 10
TCM will remember the life and career of two-time Academy Award®-winning actress and beloved humanitarian Elizabeth Taylor on Sunday, April 10. The 24-hour memorial tribute, which is set to begin at 6 a.m. (ET/PT), will include both of Taylor’s Oscar®-winning performances, with Butterfield 8 (1960) at 8 p.m. (ET) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [...]
Film legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday at age 79. She died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, [...]
Actress Jane Russell, star of Howard Hughes’ ‘The Outlaw,’ dies at 89
Actress Jane Russell, who became a star with the 1943 release of "The Outlaw," Howard Hughes' challenge to the Hollywood production code, has died. She was 89. [Updated 3:47 p.m. Russell died today at her home in Santa Maria, said her son Buck Waterfield. He did not give the cause.] Russell went on to play [...]
