25 Wednesday Jan 2023
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Alberto Moravia, Beat the Devil, Cinecitta, Earl Wilson, Fidel Castro, Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Howard Hughes, Humphrey Bogart, Italy, Marilyn Monroe, Pope Francis, Rock Hudson, Sophia Loren, The Seven Year Itch, The Woman of Rome
Gina Lollobrigida, an icon of Italian cinema and one of the great post-war sex symbols, died aged 95 on January 16, 2023. Continue reading
18 Tuesday Dec 2018
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A Year in Films and TV, Amanda Seyfried, Amy Adams, Andrew Norman, BlackKKlansman, Carnival of Souls, Carnivale, Charles Casillo, Charlize Theron, Claire Trevor, Diana Dors, Elisa Jordan, Elizabeth Debicki, First Reformed, Frances McDormand, Greta Gerwig, Harry Dean Stanton, Howard Hughes, I Am Not A Witch, Joaquin Phoenix, Julia Garner, Karina Longworth, Lady Bird, Lean On Pete, Leave No Trace, Louise Brooks, Lucky, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Morgan, Netflix, Ozark, Peterloo, Private Life, River's Edge, Saoirse Ronan, Sharp Objects, Shoplifters, Spike Lee, Sweet Country, Tamara Jenkins, The Florida Project, The Rape of Recy Taylor, The Rider, The Ruth Ellis Files, Thomas Gladysz, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tommy Redolfi, Tully, Widows, You Were Never Really Here
I’m lucky enough to live just around the corner from the Duke of York’s, England’s oldest independent cinema; and so this year I made the most of my Picturehouse membership. I like movies that blend a touch of realism with a sense of style: Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo and Kore-Eda Hirokazu’s Shoplifters satisfied those needs. Continue reading
06 Tuesday Mar 2012
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Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Frank Sinatra, George Cukor, Howard Hughes, Jack Cardiff, Joe Mankiewicz, John F. Kennedy, John Huston, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Rooney, Peter Evans
Milton Greene, 1953
A brunette and a blonde, born four years apart and raised in Depression era America: both found fame in post-war Hollywood, where their mythic beauty inspired directors, lovers and poets. Continue reading
07 Monday Mar 2011
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Adoption, Bob Hope, Bob Waterfield, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hughes, Jane Russell, Jim Dougherty, Marilyn Monroe, Max Reinhardt, Robert Mitchum, Santa Maria, The Paleface, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, Van Nuys High School
Jane Russell, one of Hollywood’s great sex symbols, and star of such films as The Outlaw, The Paleface, His Kind of Woman and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, has died aged 89 at her home in California’s Santa Maria Valley, of a respiratory illness. Continue reading
23 Thursday Sep 2010
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Marilyn Monroe at the Photoplay Awards, 1953
Born in Buffalo, New York in 1914, Bacon studied at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, from 1933-36, dropping out in his final year after his parents lost their home in a flood. He completed his journalism degree in 1943 at Syracuse University, and served in the Navy. Bacon’s career in Hollywood, writing a syndicated column for Associated Press, coincided with the rise of Marilyn Monroe and the final phase of Hollywood’s ‘Golden Era.’ Continue reading
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