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A posh spot north of the boulevard
Special to The TimesIn the San Fernando Valley trifecta of Encino, Sherman Oaks and Studio City, common knowledge is that more exclusive, pricier properties sit south of Ventura Boulevard. Parts of Encino, like Amestoy Estates, beg to differ. Beginnings Amestoy Estates'...Tags: Homes, Dining and Drinking, Murder, Esther Williams, Edward James Olmos
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Jane O'Brien Dart dies at 90; actress and her husband were in Reagan's inner circle
Jane O'Brien Dart, an actress who gave up her career to marry Justin Dart, the kingmaker who helped persuade Ronald Reagan to enter politics, has died. She was 90.
Dart, who was also an arts patron and philanthropist, died Wednesday at her home in Pebble...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Charity, Social Issues, Bette Davis, New Year's Day
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Movie gangsters so bad they're good
One hundred and one years ago, D.W. Griffith gave us "The Musketeers of Pig Alley," often credited as the first gangster film, and once sound came in, nothing hooked movie audiences during the early 1930s more reliably than Edward G. Robinson or James...
Tags: War Horse (movie), Entertainment, The Untouchables (movie), Gangster Squad (movie), World War II (1939-1945)
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Universal wants a new ‘Scarface’
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThe original was a 1930s gangster tale that had hints of Al Capone's rise and eventual fall. It had its Italian/Sicilian touches. Paul Muni and George Raft were in it. The 1980s Brian DePalma remake was about the rise and fall of a Latin emigre druglord.... -
Justice, on screen and off
Academy Award-winning film director Sidney Lumet, who passed away April 9 at age 86, is remembered for classics such as "Twelve Angry Men," the courtroom drama that challenged racial prejudice and which Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has cited as a...Tags: Marlon Brando, Refugee, Civil Rights, Entertainment, Minority Groups
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Directors take their best shots
Times Staff WriterFROM the early silent era to Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," gangster films have captivated audiences around the world. "Gangsters & Crime in the Big City," a weeklong retrospective at the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre, offers an...Tags: Martin Scorsese, Jeff Goldblum, Entertainment, Quentin Tarantino, Joey Bishop
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Studio-Era Director Sherman Dies at 99
Vincent Sherman, who directed Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn during their 1940s heyday at Warner Bros. and was one of the last surviving studio-era contract directors, has died. He was 99. Sherman died Sunday night of natural causes at...Tags: John Barrymore, Hospitals and Clinics, Mark Harmon, Entertainment, Ronald Reagan
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Top winners from 1936
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds in MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN Columbia Walter Huston as Sam Dodsworth in DODSWORTH Samuel Goldwyn Productions; UA Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur in THE STORY OF LOUIS...Tags: Walter Huston, Carole Lombard, Walter Brennan, Irene Dunne, Norma Shearer
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Top winners from 1959
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Laurence Harvey as Joe Lampton in ROOM AT THE TOP Romulus Films, Ltd. Production; Continental Distributing, Inc. Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur in BEN-HUR MGM Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne in...Tags: Entertainment, Science and Technology, Audrey Hepburn, Simone Signoret, Murder
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Top winners from 1937
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Charles Boyer as Napoleon Bonaparte in CONQUEST MGM Fredric March as Norman Maine (Alfred Hinkel) in A STAR IS BORN Selznick International Pictures; UA Robert Montgomery as Danny in NIGHT MUST...Tags: Irene Dunne, Thomas Mitchell, Claire Trevor, Fredric March, Barbara Stanwyck
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Top winners from 1928-1929
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role George Bancroft as Thunderbolt Jim Lang in THUNDERBOLT Paramount Famous Lasky Warner Baxter as The Cisco Kid in IN OLD ARIZONA Fox Chester Morris as No. 1065, Chick Williams in ALIBI Feature...Tags: Warner Baxter, Music Theater, Mary Pickford, Betty Compson, Celebrities
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Top winners from 1935
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian in MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY Arcola Production; MGM Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh in MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY Arcola Production; MGM Victor McLaglen as Gypo Nolan...Tags: Rebellions, Entertainment, Merle Oberon, Civil Unrest, Bette Davis
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