Turner Classic Movies Brings Holiday Cheer to Movie Fans With Digitally Remastered Gem Remember the Night Nov 20, 2009
The critically acclaimed 1940 classic -- starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray and scripted by the great Preston Sturges -- will air several times throughout the month, most notably on Christmas Eve at 8 p.m. (ET) ... Remember the Night marked the first of four on-screen pairings of Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck ... In addition, each Thursday in primetime and during the day on Christmas, the network will present such holiday classics as A Christmas Carol (1938), starring Reginald... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Barbara Stanwyck Among Finest Film ... Nov 12, 2009
Barbara Stanwyck Among Finest Film Actors Ever. Barbara Stanwyck Among Finest Film Actors Ever ... She never won a competitive Oscar, but Barbara Stanwyck remains among Hollywood's most loved and admired film actors, thanks to an astonishingly diverse filmography. (Suite101.com)
Daily guide to television and radio Nov 10, 2009
A woman (Barbara Stanwyck) is torn between her husband and his friend. NR (1952). (Boston Globe)
Annie Got Her Gun, All Right Nov 5, 2009
Her timeless story attracted Barbara Stanwyck in the 1930s, Ethel Merman in the 1940s, Bernadette Peters in the 1990s and Reba McEntire in the 2000s. The woman who was an international sensation as a sharpshooter and performer in Wild West shows had no formal training or education. (Investors Business Daily)
Turner Classic Movies & Universal Studios Home Entertainment Team Up to Offer Made-to-Order DVDs of Rare Films Oct 29, 2009
The first titles made available include five chilling horror films, three early Cary Grant pictures and the unsung 1940 holiday classic Remember the Night, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray and scripted by the great Preston Sturges ... This heart-warming holiday romance - penned by Preston Sturges - marked the first of four on-screen pairings of Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck and came four years before their iconic work in Double Indemnity. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
New DVDs: 'Holidays' captures the heart of Christmas Oct 25, 2009
You're in the section. Published online on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009. (Fresno Bee)
N.J. man who killed 13 in 1949 dies Oct 20, 2009
He later told police he had spent the previous evening sitting through three showings of a double feature and had thought that actress Barbara Stanwyck was one of his hated neighbors. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Crime)
Philharmonic Scores Big Oct 18, 2009
Such cinemas, we assume, as Double Indemnity with Fred McMurray and Barbara Stanwyck; John Huston s The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart; This Gun for Hire starring Alan Ladd; even the latter-day Chinatown with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. 000005A8. (Fox News)
Hollywood flair visits impoverished Miss. Delta Oct 3, 2009
The costumes of Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Stanwyck and John Wayne, its so many things to see. Like Renee Zellweger, her costume from the movie Appaloosa is hanging in Ruleville, Miss. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Hooray for Hollywood, barely, on Runway Sep 26, 2009
For noir attitude, I much preferred Althea's black pencil skirt and white butterfly-sleeve top, which might have lacked show-stopping drama, but was plenty worthy of Barbara Stanwyck. And I guess all that flirting ended up melding the brains of Carol Hannah and Logan, cause they both sent black pleather-clad super-heroines down the runway. (MSNBC -- News)
Crimes of Passion a Classiic Film N... Aug 23, 2009
Barbara Stanwyck Stars as Sociopathic Newlywed in Los Angeles. Crimes of Passion, made in 1957, is a film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck, a sociopathic newlywed helping her policeman husband (Sterling Hayden) advance in the LAPD. ... Crime of Passion stars Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Virginia Grey, Royal Dano and Stuart Whitman. (Suite101.com)
Daily TV guide Jul 24, 2009
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Exclusive: Debbie Rowe In Her Own Words Jul 14, 2009
" Talk about an accent. He is so cute. He's about as tall as you. They have property there. Amazing family. So Travis and I go, and it was the movie with Vince Vaughn where he's like Santa's brother ["Fred Claus"]. Not only do I pay for the movie, and there are only two other people other than us in this huge movie theater in Oklahoma City. I'm tired. This is the last movie I want to see. I don't even think I'd watch this when it came on Starz. Travis is asleep right after the credits, and I'm... (VHI.com -- Music News)
James Coleman, 76, spent lifetime fighting fires Jun 28, 2009
He met Barbara Stanwyck and said she was a wonderful woman, and he met The Fonz, Henry Winkler. But cigarettes and firefighting before the era of breathing apparatuses, which caused him to breathe in pollutants from soot to asbestos, took their toll, and Mr. Coleman retired on disability in 1993 with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which makes it progressively harder for sufferers to breathe, which must have been especially hard for a man whose wife said he played semi-pro baseball and... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
When readers ask, Mick LaSalle answers Jun 1, 2009
But by the time Barbara Stanwyck was 47, she'd made 73 movies. Dear Mick LaSalle: I like movies but don't see as many as I would like. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Back To The Future May 24, 2009
A small visitors center in the adjacent Georgian-style Marion Davies Guest House features blown-up photographs from the site's heyday; some feature Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford and Cary Grant. Hourlong, docent-led tours of the guest house are available between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., Thursdays through Mondays. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
15 Reasons to Love Turner Classic Movies May 3, 2009
There were revelations aplenty, especially in the early-'30s Warner melodramas; they instructed a new generation of old-film fans in the urban snarl, panache and breathless efficiency of the young James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, plus a bunch of directors that scholars had mostly ignored. But TNT was clogged with commercials, sometimes 15-20 mins. (Time.com)
New on DVD: Streisand, 'Stranded' and a thriller May 1, 2009
A Song Is Born (* * 1/2; 1948, Fox, unrated, $15): With Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo, Howard Hawks' Technicolor remake of his own 1941 Ball of Fire misses the dynamite pairing of Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. But jazz lovers, rejoice: Here are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Lionel Hampton and more. (USA Today -- Life)
Critic's Corner Wednesday Apr 15, 2009
TCM has two of the best: Double Indemnity (tonight, 8 ET/5 PT), a seminal double-cross film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray (in a far cry from his My Three Sons days); and Swing Time (10 ET/7 PT), which may just be the best of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films, and is the only one to address hard economic times. Movies don't get much better. (USA Today -- Life)
Author revisits 'Gone With the Wind' Apr 12, 2009
A feminist film critic, she earned her spurs with her book "From Reverence to Rape" (1974), which defended the "woman's film" and argued that Hollywood's image of women had regressed, from the strong, take-charge characters of the 1930s and 1940s - the ones played by Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and Jean Arthur - to the Doris Days and Bond girls. You can't escape your raising, though, and Haskell, born in Morehead City, N.C., was raised proper in old-time Richmond, Va. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Films About RMS Titanic Apr 4, 2009
It is sometimes said that during filming Barbara Stanwyck had a love affair with co-star Robert Wagner, who was cast as the romantic interest of the daughter of Stanwyck s character. A Night To Remember (1958). (Suite101.com)
New on DVD: 'Bolt,' 'Quantum,' 'Duck' Mar 27, 2009
Back story: For rough order of preference here, I like the hard-times sagas Wild Boys of the Road and Heroes for Sale (both 1933); Other Men's Women (1931; young James Cagney in support); Midnight Mary (1933); rowdy Frisco Jenny (1932); and The Purchase Price (1932; Barbara Stanwyck goes from city to farm). Extras, extras: See the end of the column for more. (USA Today -- Life)
Double Indemnity Mar 27, 2009
Main Actors: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson ... Fred MacMurray stars as Walter Neff, a hapless salesman who is drawn into a scheme by the cunning Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) to knock off her husband and make off with the money. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Two box sets reveal racy Hollywood before the Code Mar 26, 2009
It's the first Forbidden Hollywood set to focus on the work of one filmmaker, William "Wild Bill" Wellman: Other Men's Women (1931), about a love triangle between a woman (Mary Astor) and two burly railroad men; The Purchase Price (1932), with Barbara Stanwyck as a mail-order bride; Frisco Jenny (1932), about a San Francisco madam (Ruth Chatterton); Midnight Mary (1933), with Loretta Young as a young woman on trial for murder; Heroes for Sale (1933), a hard-hitting tale of a war veteran (Richard... (USA Today -- Life)
Duplicity Would Be Twice as Good if It Were Half as Confusing Mar 20, 2009
Roberts plays Claire Stenwick (a character name that inevitably invokes screwball-comedy goddess Barbara Stanwyck), an undercover CIA agent in Dubai. Owen is Ray Koval, an MI6 operative who picks her up at a party in 2003. (Slate)
An acting junkie who never says no Mar 14, 2009
And she's certainly believable as a pinup: With her curvy frame, dark hair and olive skin, Gugino could have held her own with dames like Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis. Maybe you think that actors appear in high-profile kids' movies because they need to juice their careers. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Whedon’s World Feb 23, 2009
Would someone please show these actresses a movie starring Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Irene Dunne, Bette Davis, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, or Judy Davis. Whedon wants to explore the farthest corners of our natures to discover what it means to be human. (New Yorker)
