Turner Classic Movies continues with its Gay Hollywood presentations tonight and tomorrow morning, June 8–9. Seven movies will be shown about, featuring, directed, or produced by the following: Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Edmund Goulding, W. Somerset Maughan, Clifton Webb, Montgomery Clift, Raymond Burr, Charles Walters, DeWitt Bodeen, and Harriet Parsons. (One assumes that it's a mere coincidence that gay rumor subjects Cary Grant and Tyrone Power are also featured.) Night and Day (1946), which could also be considered part of TCM's homage to birthday girl Alexis Smith, who would have turned 96 today, is a Cole Porter biopic starring Cary Grant as a posh, heterosexualized version of Porter. As the warning goes, any similaries to real-life people and/or events found in Night and Day are a mere coincidence. The same goes for Words and Music (1948), a highly fictionalized version of the Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart musical partnership.
- 6/9/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Teresa Wright and Matt Damon in 'The Rainmaker' Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright vs. Samuel Goldwyn: Nasty Falling Out.") "I'd rather have luck than brains!" Teresa Wright was quoted as saying in the early 1950s. That's understandable, considering her post-Samuel Goldwyn choice of movie roles, some of which may have seemed promising on paper.[1] Wright was Marlon Brando's first Hollywood leading lady, but that didn't help her to bounce back following the very public spat with her former boss. After all, The Men was released before Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire turned Brando into a major international star. Chances are that good film offers were scarce. After Wright's brief 1950 comeback, for the third time in less than a decade she would be gone from the big screen for more than a year.
- 3/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
'Henry V' Movie Actress Renée Asherson dead at 99: Laurence Olivier leading lady in acclaimed 1944 film (image: Renée Asherson and Laurence Olivier in 'Henry V') Renée Asherson, a British stage actress featured in London productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Three Sisters, but best known internationally as Laurence Olivier's leading lady in the 1944 film version of Henry V, died on October 30, 2014. Asherson was 99 years old. The exact cause of death hasn't been specified. She was born Dorothy Renée Ascherson (she would drop the "c" some time after becoming an actress) on May 19, 1915, in Kensington, London, to Jewish parents: businessman Charles Ascherson and his second wife, Dorothy Wiseman -- both of whom narrowly escaped spending their honeymoon aboard the Titanic. (Ascherson cancelled the voyage after suffering an attack of appendicitis.) According to Michael Coveney's The Guardian obit for the actress, Renée Asherson was "scantly...
- 11/5/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Graceful stage actor who stood out in Doctor Who on TV and the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
In a long and distinguished career, the actor Aubrey Woods, who has died aged 85, covered the waterfront, from West End revues and musicals to TV series and films, most notably, perhaps, singing The Candy Man in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), starring Gene Wilder, and playing the Controller in the Day of the Daleks storyline in Doctor Who (1972).
Tall and well-favoured in grace and authority on the stage, he played Fagin in the musical Oliver! for three years, succeeding Ron Moody in the original 1960 production. He was equally in demand on BBC radio, writing and appearing in many plays, including his own adaptations of the Mapp and Lucia novels by Ef Benson (he was a vice-president of the Ef Benson society).
In the early part of his career he...
In a long and distinguished career, the actor Aubrey Woods, who has died aged 85, covered the waterfront, from West End revues and musicals to TV series and films, most notably, perhaps, singing The Candy Man in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), starring Gene Wilder, and playing the Controller in the Day of the Daleks storyline in Doctor Who (1972).
Tall and well-favoured in grace and authority on the stage, he played Fagin in the musical Oliver! for three years, succeeding Ron Moody in the original 1960 production. He was equally in demand on BBC radio, writing and appearing in many plays, including his own adaptations of the Mapp and Lucia novels by Ef Benson (he was a vice-president of the Ef Benson society).
In the early part of his career he...
- 5/14/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Why has the director of Atonement and Anna Karenina decided to make his theatre debut with a Victorian farce hardly anyone's heard of?
As a film director, Joe Wright isn't afraid to give classic texts a vigorous shake. He made his name in 2005 with an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, scouring away the refinement of Jane Austen's novel and filling the screen with squawking chickens, muddy petticoats and wind-reddened cheeks. His recent take on Anna Karenina was more distinctive still: he set most of it in a huge, ornate theatre – a crisp metaphor for the artificiality of Russian aristocratic life. Luscious to look at and inventively shot, with characters moving fluidly from stage to bedroom, and from auditorium to ballroom, the film has been predictably laden with award nominations: for six Baftas (one of which, for costume design, it won) and four Oscars.
At the age of 41, Wright is...
As a film director, Joe Wright isn't afraid to give classic texts a vigorous shake. He made his name in 2005 with an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, scouring away the refinement of Jane Austen's novel and filling the screen with squawking chickens, muddy petticoats and wind-reddened cheeks. His recent take on Anna Karenina was more distinctive still: he set most of it in a huge, ornate theatre – a crisp metaphor for the artificiality of Russian aristocratic life. Luscious to look at and inventively shot, with characters moving fluidly from stage to bedroom, and from auditorium to ballroom, the film has been predictably laden with award nominations: for six Baftas (one of which, for costume design, it won) and four Oscars.
At the age of 41, Wright is...
- 2/21/2013
- by Maddy Costa
- The Guardian - Film News
John Lithgow stars in the title role opposite Nancy Carroll in The National Theatre revival of Arthur Wing Pinero's The Magistrate at the Nt Oliver. With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it's hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only fourteen. And that's because he isn't. Agatha his mother lopped five years from her true age and his when she married the amiable Posket.Check out photos of the cast in action below...
- 1/3/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Observer's critics pick the season's highlights, from the Misanthrope to Johnny Marr, Lulu to Lichtenstein, H7steria to Hitchcock. What are you most looking forward to? Add your comments below and download a pdf of the calendar here
December | January | FebruaryDecember
1 Film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3D)
Well, not so very unexpected. Every move has been tracked by fanboys, from the casting of Martin Freeman as Bilbo and Benedict Cumberbatch as the dragon Smaug to the return of the king, Peter Jackson, to take over directing from Guillermo del Toro. But Middle-earth (or, as it's sometimes known, New Zealand) is back for the next three Christmases.
3 Pop Scott Walker
The avant-garde Walker Brother returns with his first album since 2006's The Drift. Not for the faint-hearted, Bish Bosch finds the former romantic hero deep in dystopian territory, at once sonorous and rigorous.
3 Classical H7steria
World premiere of...
December | January | FebruaryDecember
1 Film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3D)
Well, not so very unexpected. Every move has been tracked by fanboys, from the casting of Martin Freeman as Bilbo and Benedict Cumberbatch as the dragon Smaug to the return of the king, Peter Jackson, to take over directing from Guillermo del Toro. But Middle-earth (or, as it's sometimes known, New Zealand) is back for the next three Christmases.
3 Pop Scott Walker
The avant-garde Walker Brother returns with his first album since 2006's The Drift. Not for the faint-hearted, Bish Bosch finds the former romantic hero deep in dystopian territory, at once sonorous and rigorous.
3 Classical H7steria
World premiere of...
- 12/2/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Wright's life of Congolese rebel leader Patrice Lumumba is among highlights of Young Vic's 2013 season in London
It is probably as far from Atonement, Anna Karenina and the new Brad Pitt advert for Chanel No 5 as it is possible to get. Joe Wright, director of all of those, admitted he was "terrified" as he talked about one of his next projects, the UK premiere of an epic play charting the rise and fall of the Congolese rebel leader Patrice Lumumba.
Wright will direct Chiwetel Ejiofor as Lumumba in A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic, it was announced last night, marking the actor's first return to the London stage after his award-winning performance as Othello, four years ago.
For Wright, best known for his film adaptations of books including Pride and Prejudice and Ian McEwan's Atonement, 2013 will be the year of his theatrical directorial debut, beginning with...
It is probably as far from Atonement, Anna Karenina and the new Brad Pitt advert for Chanel No 5 as it is possible to get. Joe Wright, director of all of those, admitted he was "terrified" as he talked about one of his next projects, the UK premiere of an epic play charting the rise and fall of the Congolese rebel leader Patrice Lumumba.
Wright will direct Chiwetel Ejiofor as Lumumba in A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic, it was announced last night, marking the actor's first return to the London stage after his award-winning performance as Othello, four years ago.
For Wright, best known for his film adaptations of books including Pride and Prejudice and Ian McEwan's Atonement, 2013 will be the year of his theatrical directorial debut, beginning with...
- 10/18/2012
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
London, Sep 5: Filmmaker Joe Wright is preparing for his directorial debut in theatre after signing Arthur Wing Pinero's "Trelawny of the Wells".
The show is set to debut at the Donmar Warehouse in February next year, reports contactmusic.com.
"Joe is one of the leading lights of British film. It feels very apt that having grown up in a theatre, Joe should be directing 'Trelawny of the Wells', as it's a play set in that.
The show is set to debut at the Donmar Warehouse in February next year, reports contactmusic.com.
"Joe is one of the leading lights of British film. It feels very apt that having grown up in a theatre, Joe should be directing 'Trelawny of the Wells', as it's a play set in that.
- 9/4/2012
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
Joe Wright, the Golden Globe-nominated director of "Atonement" and the upcoming "Anna Karenina," will make his stage-directing debut at London's Donmar Warehouse with Arthur Wing Pinero's "Trelawny of the Wells." The 1898-period comedy revolves around an actress who tries to give up the stage to marry but has a hard time adjusting to life outside the theater. The production will run Feb. 15 to April 13, 2013, at the Donmar in Covent Garden. Also read: Hollywood Invades Broadway: Which Big Stars Are Headlining on the Great White Way? The Donmar season, announced Monday,...
- 9/3/2012
- by Lisa Fung
- The Wrap
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