Jeanette MacDonald

'Mildred Pierce's' Ann Roth on designing costumes for the Depression era

2011-03-27 00:00:00

As 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...

Saturday's Highlights: 'The Night Before the Night Before Christmas' on Hallmark

2010-11-19 21:33:52

Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

2011-02-19 16:33:00

Kathryn Grayson dies at 88; MGM singing star in 1940s, '50s

2010-02-19 00:00:00

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....

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Aug. 3, 1940

2010-08-03 16:33:11

Robert Wright, 90; Composer, Lyricist for Musicals and Films

2005-07-30 00:00:00

Robert 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,...

Susanna Foster dies at 84; costarred in 1943 version of 'Phantom'

2009-01-20 00:00:00

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...

Allan Jones; Tenor Sang in '30s Film Farces

1992-06-30 00:00:00

Allan 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...

John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis get TCM marathons

2012-07-31 16:45:08

TCM festival salutes Olivia de Havilland, Gene Tierney, Clint Eastwood, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman and â€¦ Thelma Todd?

2010-07-31 16:34:39

A system gone with the wind

2006-05-21 00:00:00

Here 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...

Dudley Do-Right

1999-08-26 00:00:00

Friday 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...

'San Francisco' (1936) The early disaster film from famed director W.S. Van Dyke ("The Thin Man") follows the budding romance of Clark Gable 's "Blackie" Norton and Jeanette MacDonald 's Mary Blake. He is a rough-around-the-edges gambling tycoon, and she, a singer with a voice that could almost

2008-07-29 12:54:58