Movies
Always a super-trouper, rarely a stand-alone star, Joan Blondell is an unexpected choice to be the focus of a full-dress Barbara Stanwyck/Greta Garbo-style UCLA Film & Television Archive career retrospective.
Oct. 28, 2016
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen, and welcome to your weekly field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.
Nov. 6, 2016
April 21, 2017
Entertainment & Arts
Opening Night (Bravo Monday at 5 p.m.) stars Gena Rowlands in a harrowing, superb portrayal of a stage actress thrown into a midlife crisis just as her new play is to open.
May 28, 1995
Classic Hollywood: Pre-code films out from Warner Archive
Jan. 9, 2012
Elia Kazan made his screen directorial debut with this classic 1945 film of Betty Smith’s popular novel about a teen-ager (Peggy Ann Garner, pictured) who has a drunken Irish-American father (an Oscar-winning James Dunn, also pictured) and dreams of a life beyond the tenements.
Aug. 13, 1995
The Blue Dahlia (Channel 5 Tuesday at 1:30 a.m.): Forties film noir, adapted from Raymond Chandler and starring Alan Ladd. (2:00) The Glass Key (Channel 5 Tuesday at 3:30 a.m.): More ‘40s noir, this time derived from Dashiell Hammett and starring Brian Donlevy. (2:00) The Gold Diggers of 1933 (Channel 5 Wednesday at 1:30 a.m.): Archtypal Depression musical, directed zestfully by Mervyn LeRoy and featuring fantastic Busby Berkeley musical numbers.
Sept. 3, 1989
Archives
This 1928 Tudor-style cottage was used by actress Joan Blondell as a personal dressing room, according to local lore.
Sept. 22, 2002
The Sting, that unalloyed delight, airs Sunday at 8 p.m. on ABC.
Aug. 25, 1985
‘It looks as if Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.’
Jan. 4, 1987