Carroll Baker

John Michael Hayes, who wrote the script for "Rear Window" and was a frequent Hitchcock collaborater, has died. He was 89. The screenwriter who was nominated for two Academy Awards died of natural causes on Wednesday Nov. 19 at a Hanover, New Hampshire...

For an event that prides itself on diverse programming, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival has outdone itself. At this year's fest, which runs through Nov. 11, Andy Griffith is a playboy. Corey Feldman stars in a horror movie, John...

IN HER famous essay "Notes on 'Camp,' " Susan Sontag lists films she considered to be aligned with the schlocky sensibility she described as a "love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration." Ernest Schoedsack's 1933 "King Kong" and "The Maltese...

Carroll Baker, dropping dialogue with a flat, gun-moll's drawl that belied her airy beauty, is one of the more interesting lapsed icons of the early '60s. Subverting the "Baby Doll" persona that would later stalk her through such trash-glamour films as...

From The Times: March 28, 1957 Last night was the hottest in memory, if not in the 29 years, of any to mark the presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards at Pantages Hollywood Theater. When it was over, so many of the guests...

From The Times: March 1, 1957 Motion picture actress Kim Novak and James Dean, deceased film actor, were named as the world favorites at the annual Golden Globe Awards presentation of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association last night at the Ambassador....

Chafing under the oppressive tedium that alternated with the overwhelming terror of the Vietnam War, the four Marines needed something-anything -to boost their morale. "When you're in a war zone, when it's quiet, you're kind of depressed and frustrated...

Think of John Waters as a racy Wizard of Oz. Generations of American storytellers have chronicled provincial misfits and artists leaving their homes and finding their true colors in Los Angeles, New York or San Francisco. But Waters does the reverse,...

Friday September 27, 1996      Time has not been as kind to "Giant" as you wish it had. George Stevens' 1956 film of the Edna Ferber novel flows beautifully in its earliest sections, set circa 1925, but begins to lose momentum after leaping to 1941 and...

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Yul Brynner as The King in THE KING AND I 20th Century-Fox James Dean as Jett Rink in GIANT Giant Production; Warner Bros. Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh in LUST FOR LIFE MGM Rock Hudson as...

Welcome back to Thalia, seat of Hardtop County, Tex., where the terrain is so flat that the net at the municipal tennis court forms a skyline. Readers of Larry McMurtry's "The Last Picture Show" will be surprised to hear that Thalia has anything so grand...