15 Wednesday May 2024
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Actors Studio, Anna Strasberg, Arthur Miller, Authentic Brands Group, Christie’s, CMG Worldwide, Dr. Marianne Kris, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Moore, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Method Acting, Roger Richman, Scott Fortner, Susan Strasberg
Anna Strasberg, widow of Actors Studio founder Lee Strasberg and inheritor of Marilyn Monroe’s estate, died aged 84 on January 6, 2024. Continue reading
12 Tuesday Sep 2023
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A View From the Bridge, Actors Lab, Actors Studio, Anna Christie, Arthur Miller, California, Carol Lawrence, Censorship, Cinecon Classic Film Festival, Eileen Heckart, El Segundo, Elia Kazan, Harry Cohn, House Un-American Activities Committee, HUAC, Jeanne Eagels, John Gilbert, London, Man Woman and Sin, Marilyn Monroe, Maureen Stapleton, Monta Bell, Morris Carnovsky, New Watergate Club, Norman Rosten, Old Town Music Hall, Raf Vallone, Sidney Lumet, Silent Movies, Ted Coy, The Hook
Man, Woman and Sin – the final silent film starring Jeanne Eagels, and her only Hollywood production – enjoyed a rare big-screen outing during the Labour Day weekend, as part of the 59th Cinecon Classic Film Festival at the historic Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, California. Continue reading
19 Tuesday Apr 2022
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Actors Studio, Alvah Bessie, Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Bus Stop, Charles Lederer, Clash By Night, Death of a Salesman, Edward G. Robinson, Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Nehemiah Persoff, Some Like It Hot, The Sex Symbol, The Symbol, Tony Curtis
The great character actor Nehemiah Persoff, whose many roles included the mobster ‘Little Bonaparte’ in Some Like It Hot, has died at the grand old age of 102. Continue reading
12 Wednesday Jan 2022
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Actors Studio, Arthur Miller, Augusta Miller, Conversation Piece, Isidore Miller, Joan Copeland, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Middle of the Night, Paddy Chayefsky, Rebecca Miller, The Goddess
Joan Maxine Miller was born to Augusta Barnett, a schoolteacher and housewife, and Isidore Miller, a Polish immigrant and clothing manufacturer, in Manhattan in 1922. She was their youngest child and only daughter, joining her older brothers, nine-year-old Kermit and six-year-old Arthur. While Arthur was his mother’s favourite, Isidore doted on little Joan. “After waiting so long for a girl,” she recalled, “there I was, this pretty angel … I was like a doll.” Continue reading
06 Thursday Jan 2022
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Actors Studio, Arthur Miller, Clash By Night, Clifford Odets, David Marshall, Dorothy Stratten, Fritz Lang, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Lee Strasberg, Life Among The Cannibals, Marilyn Monroe, Monkey Business, Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show
Peter Bogdanovich, the filmmaker, actor and historian, has died of natural causes at home in Los Angeles, aged 82. He was born in Kingston, New York in 1939, to immigrant parents who had recently fled Nazi-occupied Europe. Herma, his mother, was an Austrian-born Jew; while his father Borislav, a painter and pianist, was a Serbian Orthodox Christian. Peter attended classes at the Actors Studio as a teenager, and later studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory. Continue reading
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