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Clark Gable: King of Hollywood

John Farr | Posted 05.01.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Wallace Beery, Carole Lombard, The Academy Awards, Don Rickles, Charles Laughton, Joan Crawford, Robert Wise, Louis B. Mayer, Burt Lancaster, Frank Capra, Claudette Colbert, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Mgm, Best Movies on DVD, Walter Pidgeon, Olivia De Havilland, Gone With the Wind, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Rosalind Russell, John Ford, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Lewis, Leslie Howard, David O. Selznick, Vivien Leigh, Loretta Young, Old Hollywood, Hollywood, Entertainment News
John Farr

As we kick off Oscar month tomorrow, we also honor the birthday of Clark Gable, who picked up a statuette at the seventh Academy Awards ceremony in 1935.

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A Tale of Two Sisters: Hollywood's Longest Running Feud

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Orson Welles, Clark Gable, Best Movies on DVD, Aldous Huxley, Gone With the Wind, Olivia De Havilland, Best Movies by Farr, The Oscars, Errol Flynn, Montgomery Clift, Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Lynn Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, William Wyler, Aaron Copland, Michael Curtiz, Joan Fontaine, Vivien Leigh, David O. Selznick, Bette Davis, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
John Farr

It is exceedingly strange and more than a little sad that actresses Olivia de Havilland, 94, and her sister Joan Fontaine, 93, have been estranged for many years, the result of an intense sibling rivalry which has never dissipated.

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Haskell Captures the Dynamics Underlying an American Icon in Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Kay Brown, Irene Mayer Selznick, Academy Awards, Films, Nebiy Mekonnen, Books, Victor Fleming, Hattie McDaniel, Molly Haskell, Thomas Mitchell, Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind, Olivia De Havilland, Ethiopia, Margaret Mitchell, Alexis De Tocqueville, My Dear: Gone With the Wind Revisited, A Streetcar Named Desire, George Cukor, William Cameron Menzies, Blanche DuBois, Sidney Howard, David O. Selznick, Vivien Leigh, Richmond, Clark Gable, Frankly, Books News
Penelope Andrew

Film scholar Molly Haskell couldn't have been a more perfect choice for Yale University Press to tap for an Icons of America volume that explicates the phenomenon of Gone with the Wind.

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Remembering Jennifer Jones and A Perfect Afternoon at the Movies

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Jennifer Jones, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Academy Awards, Daniel Selznick, Joesph Cotten, Madame Bovary, Montgomery Clift, New York City, John Huston, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, The Portrait of Jennie, Karl Malden, The Walter Reade Theater, The Song of Bernadette, Vincent-Minnelli, Deborah Kerr, Beat the Devil, Cluny Brown, Ingrid Bergman, Henry King, Ernst Lubitsch, Joan Fontaine, Fred Astaire, David O. Selznick, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Jennifer Jones always defied easy analysis, so much the better for us to simply surrender to her films themselves.

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