Robert Donat

The tall, tweedy Englishman with the pencil mustache is bored - no, positively world weary - from a life of restaurants and parties and, ho-hum, in the far distance, another rumor of war. He considers doing away with himself, but stiffens his standard-...

A man whose best friend was a giant rabbit, a flying elephant and a mouse in a wizard's hat are all getting the U.S. Postal Service's stamp of approval. Legendary film actor Jimmy Stewart and a handful of Disney characters are just some of the American...

From The Times: March 1, 1940 The most glamorous of Hollywood's annual functions found a new setting last night of Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador, which probably has never before been given over to such a serious event. It was the first time in...

From The Times: March 1, 1940 Two English motion-picture players won the highest awards last night from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. They are Vivien Leigh for her performance in "Gone With the WInd," a Selznick International...

- See where this movie is playing. - Watch the trailer. ++++++++++++++++++++ || Make a night of it. Find: - Recommended dining - Recommended bars || ++++++++++++++++++++ Kevin Kline, a frequently brilliant actor with a flair for playing flawed...

Some tales are told just once or twice, but "The Count of Monte Cristo," it seems, will be with us forever. Especially in the movies. The new Touchstone version - directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Jim Caviezel as Edmond Dantes (aka The Count) -...

1. THE IRON MASK (Allan Dwan; 1929) 3 1/2 stars This late Doug Fairbanks silent, based on "The Man in the Iron Mask" (the third book in Dumas' "Three Musketeers" series), grandly retells the tale of intrigue swirling around twin brother French kings....

In the history of movies, no one could scare us like Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense who was born 100 years ago today. But fear is only part of Hitch's story. There are also dreams, humor, romantic longing, despair. And always a little irony....

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Robert Donat as Arthur Chipping in GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS MGM Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in GONE WITH THE WIND Selznick International Pictures; MGM Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff in WUTHERING...

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Charles Boyer as Pepe Le Moko in ALGIERS Walter Wanger; UA James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan in ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES Warner Bros.-First National Robert Donat as Andrew Mason in THE CITADEL MGM...