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Monthly Archives: April, 2015

No More Mr. Nice Guy! Gregory Peck Swaggers to a DUEL IN THE SUN

♦ April 16, 2015 ♦ 17 Comments

There’s always that little extra something when a nice guy plays a villain. Robert Walker as Bruno in Strangers on a Train. Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt. And Gregory Peck as Smokin’ McHottie in Duel in the Sun. Wait what? Okay I’m being told his name was actually Lewt McCanles. Apparently I didn’t hear …

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CHRISTOPHER STRONG: Pre-Code on the Precipice

♦ April 3, 2015 ♦ 13 Comments

Released in 1933, Christopher Strong teeters between two worlds, with one strappy stiletto planted in Pre-Code and one prim pump parked on the threshold of the Hays Office. And that’s just one of its many quirks—starting with the casting. Colin Clive and Billie Burke are Sir Christopher and Lady Elaine Strong, the exasperated parents of headstrong Monica (Helen Chandler). …

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The TCM Film Festival: Shirley MacLaine’s Terms of Endearment—and Otherwise

♦ April 1, 2015 ♦ 2 Comments

There are worse ways to spend a weekend than following Shirley MacLaine around Hollywood. The 81-year-old Oscar winner, whose career stretches back to the end of the Golden Age, was a featured guest at the recent TCM Classic Film Festival. But when she settled into Grauman’s Chinese Theatre with Leonard Maltin to talk about The Apartment, her microphone began …

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