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"Irving Berlin's White Christmas" Remains A Classic
Special To The CourantThe key words in the title " Irving Berlin's White Christmas" are the name of the composer and lyricist. For while the book by David Ives and Paul Blake draws on the 1954 Paramount Pictures release, many of the songs come from other sources — from...Tags: Alice Faye, Theater, Defense, Vermont, Fred Astaire
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Technicolor thriller in academy screening lineup
Times Staff WriterMost films produced in Technicolor during the late 1930s and early '40s were musicals, historical epics or period melodramas — but that all changed with 1945's juicy psychological thriller "Leave Her to Heaven." Leon Shamroy won a cinematography...Tags: Crimes, Ronald Colman, Theater, Movies, Lillian Hellman
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Pilots: O'Mara Is ABC's 'Marlowe'
Zap2It.comJason O'Mara is stepping into the gumshoes of Humphrey Bogart and Dick Powell, taking on the character of Philip Marlowe. The former "Agency" and "In Justice" star will play Raymond Chandler's detective in a pilot at ABC. The Alphabet has also picked...Tags: Adam Arkin, Los Angeles, Television Industry, Humphrey Bogart, NBC
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Made in Maryland
Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Skeet Ulrich, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Coup d'Etat, Bobby Farrelly, Sharon Stone
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Actress Frances Bergen Dies at 84
Frances Bergen, a former model and occasional actress and singer whose show business career took a back seat to her longtime role as the wife of beloved ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the mother of their actress daughter Candice, has died. She was 84....Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Movies, Los Angeles, Celebrity, Edgar Bergen
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'Father Knows Best' Mother Wyatt Dies
Times Staff WriterJane Wyatt, a three-time Emmy Award-winner for her portrayal of the patient, understanding housewife and mother on the classic 1950s family situation comedy "Father Knows Best," has died. She was 96. Wyatt, whose acting career spanned stage, screen and...Tags: Cary Grant, Canadian Pacific Limited, Franchot Tone, Theater, Los Angeles
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Film Sweetheart June Allyson Dies at 88
Zap2It.comActress June Allyson, the perky blond with the husky voice who was one of Hollywood's most beloved stars in the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 88. Allyson died Saturday at her home in Ojai of pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a...Tags: Glenn Miller, Theater, June Allyson, Santa Monica, Reseda
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Inside Sin City
If the highly original, wild-and-crazy Sin City doesn't look or feel like a regular movie, that's because it isn't. "That's what makes it so unique," rebel director Robert Rodriguez says in an interview in Los Angeles. "It doesn't feel like a movie. I...Tags: Elliott Gould, Frank Miller, Abusive Behavior, Texas, Los Angeles
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5 films that were landmark musicals
1. "Footlight Parade" (Lloyd Bacon-William Keighley-Busby Berkeley; 1933) 3 1/2 stars Berkeley's finest hour came in this flabbergasting follow-up to "42nd Street," with James Cagney as a Berkeley-like choreographer who directs, for Broadway theaters,...Tags: Gang Activity, Dancing, Robert Wise Jr., Jerome Robbins, Gene Kelly
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Pressing business
CMBWhy do the movies, old and new, have such a continuing fascination for newspaper offices? For wisecracking reporters, tantrum-throwing editors and the race to beat the last deadline? Ever since movies started to talk in the 1920s, newspapers have been a...Tags: Cary Grant, Alan J Pakula, George Stevens Jr., Robin Wright Penn, Oliver Stone
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