Olivia De Havilland

Clark Gable: King of Hollywood

John Farr | Posted 04.01.2012

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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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The Greatest Hollywood Director You May Never Have Heard Of

John Farr | Posted 09.10.2011

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John Farr

Which Hollywood director actually made the most great movies? In the Alsace area of Germany, future director William Wyler was born. Here is a sampling of his best movies covering three full decades.

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Bisset, De Havilland & Kerr Feted by French Legion & BFI/TCM Festival to Open With Caron Classic

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

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Penelope Andrew

As late summer transformed into autumn, milestones in classic film, which focused primarily on iconic leading ladies, dominated the news and will be r...

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Books That Crush Intolerance

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Plantation House, Lord Alfred Douglas, Professor, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, David Leddick, Samuel Stewart, Alice B. Toklas, Joseph Cotten, Justin Spring, George Chauncey, Alice-Roosevelt-Longworth, Gay-Liberation-Network, Sophie Johnson Charles, Tattoo Artist, John Leaphart, Evelyn Waugh, David Patterson, Steven Watson, Syrie Maugham, Gertrude Stein, Gerald Haxton, George Platt Lynes, Thomas Wirth, Barbara Smith, Champange, Paula Byrne, Martin Duberman, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead, Ogden Codman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Alfred Kinsey, Thorton Wilder, Olivia De Havilland, Gay, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Brideshead Revisted, W. Somerset Maugham, Selina Hastings, Bill Blizzard, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Stewart, Bronzino, George Santayana, The Duke of Westminister, Gays, Bette Davis, Robert Tritton, Gay Issues, William-Lygon-the-Earl-of-Beauchamp, Sexual Renegade, Books News
Michael Henry Adams

With a nod to Santayana, many feel that history's greatest lesson is the ability it can afford one to travel back in time, to discover one's self, in ...

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

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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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

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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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