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'Antiques Roadshow': Amazing Signed 'Gone With The Wind'

Posted 04.24.2012

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Are you a Windie? Do you know what a Windie is? On "Antiques Roadshow" (Mon., 8 p.m. ET on PBS), a woman brought in an item that she was told would ma...

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Actor Michelle Williams' Uncanny Marilyn Wins Award Noms

Brad Balfour | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Class System, Academy Awards, The Prince the Showgirl and Me, Prep School, Theater, Art Historian, Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, John Logan, London, Marilyn Monroe, England, Castle, Film Director, The Prince and the Showgirl, Method Acting, Film Industry, Kenneth Branagh, Award Noms, Fairytale, Kent, Colin Clark, Hollywood, New York, Simon Curtis, My Week With Marilyn Movie, Oscar Award, Laurence Olivier, Savage Grace, Actor, Art History, Camera, Vivien Leigh, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Who knew that when actress Michelle Williams first appeared as the bad girl in Dawson's Creek, she would have the uncanny good sense to take on roles ...

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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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Interview: Director Simon Curtis discusses My Week with Marilyn

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.21.2012

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Marshall Fine

Simon Curtis bristles a little when asked why, having directed so extensively in television and produced numerous films, it took him so long to direct...

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Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow

Fern Siegel | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Laurence Olivier, Frank Langella, Entertainment, Orson Welles, Theater, Broadway, Hollywood, Off-Broadway, Terrence Rattigan, Vivien Leigh, Arts News
Fern Siegel

Corruption and greed resonate in every age. Though Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy was written in 1963, it seems ripped from today's headlines.

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Q&A With Jessica Sherr, Star of
Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies

Joshua Kors | Posted 11.08.2011

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Joshua Kors

Jessica Sherr has been playing the raven-haired 1940s cinema icon Bette Davis for two years. Sherr sat down with me to discuss how an off-hand comment about her bright green eyes sparked a burgeoning career.

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The Greatest Hollywood Director You May Never Have Heard Of

John Farr | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Preston Sturges, Kirk Douglas, Academy Awards, Mary Astor, Margaret Sullavan, Ralph Richardson, Fredric March, Best Movies on DVD, Olivia De Havilland, Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson, Best Movies by Farr, Herbert Marshall, Eleanor Parker, Montgomery Clift, Walter Huston, John Ford, Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, William Wyler, George Cukor, Charlton Heston, Myrna Loy, Vivien Leigh, Dana Andrews, Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Entertainment News
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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Awards Season & Second Looks: What Ever Happened to Mother & Child? Winter's Bone Miracles & The African Queen Restored

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1951, Katharine Hepburn, Film Forum, The African Queen, MOTHER and CHILD, Jennifer Lawrence, Awards Season, Winter's Bone, Annette Bening, Berlin International Film Festival, Film Awards, Gotham Awards, Vivien Leigh, Debra Granik, Humphrey Bogart, Wfcc, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

While there were no surprises regarding SAG wins for best male lead actor, Colin Firth, and supporting actor, Christian Bale, it was refreshing to see Melissa Leo snag the best supporting actress award.

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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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10 Things You Didn't Know About The Oscars

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 05.25.2011

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Maggie Van Ostrand

Theater owners were banned from selling snacks during the run of Ben Hur, 1959 Best Picture. The movie was deemed to be too much of an artistic event to be denigrated by popcorn and candy.

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Where Is Lee Marvin When We Really Need Him?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Farr

I look at the new action movies coming out, and I have to wonder: Where's our new Lee Marvin? The manly man, the bad guy turned good guy, the guy who's so ugly he's almost beautiful, the guy who takes no prisoners?

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Remembering Jean Simmons

Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Film Noir, David Lean, Laurence Olivier, Angel Face, Otto Preminger, Howard Hughes, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Vivien Leigh, Entertainment News
Sam Wasson

Remembering Jean Simmons, who died Friday, January 22, of lung cancer at 80, the first thing I thought of is her performance in Angel Face.

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Video Books, or Vooks: Do We Need to Watch Books as Well as Read Them?

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Finkle

It would be a sin -- practically a capital crime -- to write off masterpieces because no one has the patience for the sentences Marcel Proust had the patience to craft so scrupulously.

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Missing The Mark On Warren Beatty

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Farr

Why does the media who cover Warren Beatty's work assume the topic I care most about with regard to this highly accomplished figure is how many women he slept with? It's insulting, in a way, isn't it?

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