Ray Milland

PASSINGS: Audrey Young, Mary Perry

2012-06-09 00:00:00

Audrey Young, 89, who was a singer-actress in the 1940s and donated $5 million to the UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood to create the Billy Wilder Theater in memory of her late husband, died June 1 in Los Angeles. A cause was not given. Her death was...

'Gump,' 'Bambi' among 2011 National Film Registry selections

2011-12-27 21:38:06

Boris Karloff, a monster talent remembered

2010-08-30 16:33:56

PASSINGS: Phyllis Avery

2011-05-25 00:00:00

Phyllis Avery Actress on Ray Milland, George Gobel shows Phyllis Avery, 88, an actress who portrayed the wife of Ray Milland in the early 1950s CBS sitcom originally called "Meet Mr. McNutley," died Thursday of heart failure at her Los Angeles home, her...

PASSINGS: Mark Haines

2011-05-26 00:00:00

Mark Haines Co-anchor of 'Squawk on the Street' Mark Haines, 65, co-anchor of CNBCs morning "Squawk on the Street" show and one of the business news network's most recognized faces, died unexpectedly Tuesday evening at home, the network announced in New...

Aleen Leslie dies at 101; screenwriter wrote radio's 'A Date With Judy,' which became a hit movie and TV sitcom

2010-02-09 18:34:00

Aleen Leslie, a screenwriter from the 1930s to '50s who wrote the popular "A Date With Judy" radio show that became a hit film and early TV sitcom, died three days before her 102nd birthday. Leslie, who was also a novelist and playwright, died Feb. 2...

Tuesday's TV Highlights: Patti helps an entrepenuer on 'The Millionaire Matchmaker'

2010-01-25 21:34:16

Get drunk, win Oscar

2010-03-02 16:33:13

Oscars have always welcomed the world

2010-03-10 16:33:19

Judith Freeman on Raymond Chandler

2009-04-05 00:00:00

The number of people who actually knew Raymond Chandler and who are still alive can pretty much be counted on one hand. Chandler died 50 years ago last week, on March 26, 1959, at the age of 70. Among his surviving friends are Natasha Spender, wife of the...

'Rich Man, Poor Man: The Complete Collection'

2010-08-26 13:08:27

One of the television programs most anticipated to hit DVD finally debuts in the format, with the original mid-1970s ABC miniseries and the "Book II" sequel encompassed by this nine-disc set. Peter Strauss and Nick Nolte play the dissimilar Jordache...

The Rock Climbs 'Witch Mountain'

2007-08-29 00:00:00

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is expected to star in a long-in-coming sequel to "Escape to Witch Mountain." Currently titled merely "Witch Mountain" (perhaps on the plausible assumption that nobody in the target audience will have any awareness of the...

Ray Milland and Marjorie Reynolds in Fritz Lang's 1944 adaptation of Graham Greene's thriller "Ministry of Fear," now out on DVD.

2013-03-02 00:00:00

) mainly for her money. After learning of her affair with a crime writer (Robert Cummings), Milland's Tony plans his wife's murder. "Dial M" is best known for the scene of Kelly grabbing a pair of scissors to defend herself.

2008-07-09 12:33:05

HAIR OF THE DOG: As an alcoholic wannabe writer going through a painful withdrawal, Ray Milland (shown accepting his award from Ingrid Bergman) delivered a devastating portrayal of despair in 1945 s "Lost Weekend.

2005-10-21 17:35:21