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'Mildred Pierce's' Ann Roth on designing costumes for the Depression era
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAs Mildred Pierce, the proud single mother in Depression-era Southern California in the new HBO miniseries of the same name, Kate Winslet scrambles around town trying to find a job — after kicking her cheating husband out — in a mud-brown...Tags: Celebrities and Health Issues, Mildred Pierce (tv program), Movies, Evan Rachel Wood, Entertainment
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Saturday's Highlights: 'The Night Before the Night Before Christmas' on Hallmark
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 21 - 27 in PDF format Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here This week's TV Movies âHO, HO, WHO AM I?' Santa's (R.D. Reid, right) sleigh goes...... -
Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]
The Daily MirrorLos Angeles Time file photo I thought it would be fun to switch back to mystery people, so here’s today’s mystery guest! [Update: Please congratulate Mike Hawks and Mary Mallory for identifying our mystery fellow!] [Update 2: This is Tay...... -
Kathryn Grayson dies at 88; MGM singing star in 1940s, '50s
Kathryn Grayson, an MGM singing star in the 1940s and early '50s in musicals such as "Anchors Aweigh," "Kiss Me Kate" and "Show Boat," has died. She was 88.
Grayson died Wednesday of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles, said publicist Dale Olson....Tags: Social Issues, Johnny Johnston, Nelson Eddy, Mickey Rooney, Mario Lanza
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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Aug. 3, 1940
The Daily MirrorAug. 3, 1940: Jimmie Fidlerâs staff says: Have you seen Jeanette MacDonald's new custom-built jalopy, upholstered in the MacDonald plaid and rigged with a horn that tootles "The Campbells Are Coming?"... -
Robert Wright, 90; Composer, Lyricist for Musicals and Films
Times Staff WriterRobert Wright, a Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist whose songwriting collaboration with George "Chet" Forrest included the hit Broadway musicals "Song of Norway," "Kismet" and "Grand Hotel," has died. He was 90. Wright, a three-time Oscar nominee,...Tags: Carmen Miranda, Poetry, Jimmy Durante, Norway, Entertainment
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Susanna Foster dies at 84; costarred in 1943 version of 'Phantom'
Susanna Foster, a singer and 1940s leading lady whose most famous role was the terrorized prima donna in the first talking version of "Phantom of the Opera," died Saturday of heart failure at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J., according...Tags: Mary Martin, Theater, Entertainment, Music Theater, Lon Chaney
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Allan Jones; Tenor Sang in '30s Film Farces
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAllan Jones, the boyishly good-looking lyric tenor who added pleasant musical interludes to film farces of the 1930s, has died of lung cancer. The curly-haired Jones, whose signature song was "Donkey Serenade," was 84 when he died Saturday in New York...Tags: Judy Garland, Australia (movie), Fred Astaire, Victor Herbert, Fanny Brice
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John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis get TCM marathons
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelTCM starts its Summer Under the Stars festival Wednesday with John Wayne, arguably the biggest movie star of all. Each day in August, starting at 6 a.m., the channel will salute a performer with a 24-hour marathon. What is Wayne's best? I vote “... -
TCM festival salutes Olivia de Havilland, Gene Tierney, Clint Eastwood, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman and ⦠Thelma Todd?
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelIt starts Sunday with Basil Rathbone and ends Aug. 31 with Clint Eastwood. TCM unrolls another Summer of the Stars festival in August. Each day, the channel devotes a day to the films of one actor. Some are familiar: Steve McQueen on Tuesday, Ingrid... -
A system gone with the wind
Special to The TimesHere is your starter question. In the following four trios, explain what the three people have in common, and identify what unifies each of the groupings: a. Alan Hale; Henry Blanke; Sid Hickox b. Arthur Freed; Joseph Ruttenberg; Frank Morgan c. Travis...Tags: Sony Corp., Casablanca (movie), Clark Gable, Local Government, History
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Dudley Do-Right
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday August 27, 1999 Who better, or so you might think, to play the lead in "Dudley Do-Right" than Brendan Fraser, an actor whose persona contains so much of the straight-arrow Canadian Mountie that you could run a retrospective of his career...Tags: PG Rated Movies, Nelson Eddy, Brendan Fraser, Eric Idle, Sarah Jessica Parker
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