William Wyler

Around Town: Marvel legend Stan Lee hosts 'Avengers' screening

2012-05-03 16:37:49

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Richard Chamberlain channels his father for 'The Heiress'

2012-04-17 17:20:00

Richard Chamberlain is putting a lot of his father, Charles, into his role as Dr. Austin Sloper in the Pasadena Playhouse production of "The Heiress," Ruth and Augustus Goetz's 1947 adaptation of Henry James' "Washington Square." The drama begins previews...

Oscars by the Numbers

2012-02-02 16:41:14

Hollywood finds romance in travel

2012-02-05 00:00:00

Love is always lovelier some place other than home. Well, at least in the celluloid universe. Traveling by boat, train or even bus can lead to romantic entanglements in the movies, as does visiting �ber-romantic locales such as Rome, Paris and Venice. Of...

Around Town: Edgar Wright shows his stuff and aliens attack

2011-12-08 16:36:30

Around Town: 'Mad, Mad World' and other comedy classics

2011-12-29 21:37:53

Around Town: Salutes to Bunuel and the hero of 'Hugo,' Melies

2012-01-19 16:37:41

Around Town: The Stooges ride back to town

2011-11-24 16:36:36

Noel Coward's seldom-seen 'Peace in Our Time' rings a bell

2011-10-05 16:33:01

PASSINGS: Barbara Kent, Edgar Villchur

2011-10-20 00:00:00

Barbara Kent Silent film star also was in talkies Barbara Kent, 103, an actress who began her career in silent films of the 1920s and made the transition to talkies in the Harold Lloyd comedies "Welcome Danger" and "Feet First," died Oct. 13 in Palm...

Book review: 'Sunset Park' by Paul Auster

2010-11-21 00:00:00

Sunset Park A Novel Paul Auster Henry Holt: 312 pp., $25 Halfway through Paul Auster's 16th novel, "Sunset Park," a writer named Renzo Michaelson mentions to his publisher, Morris Heller, a concept he has for "an essay about the things that don't...

The Zombies keep a-comin' in George Romero's 'Survival of the Dead'

2010-05-26 16:35:27

Audrey Hepburn became an overnight sensation in William Wyler's 1953 romance "Roman Holiday" as a bored princess who decides to slip away incognito while in Rome.

2012-02-04 15:11:13

Though she had appeared in a few films, Audrey Hepburn never had a starring role in a major motion picture until her Oscar-winning best actress turn in this scintillating romantic comedy directed by William Wyler . Hepburn is enchanting as a princess on tour of Europe who decides to escape from her

2008-11-18 15:17:27

-- Warner Bros. gave Davis the 1938 melodrama "Jezebel," based on a flop Broadway play. And Davis won her second Oscar for her flawless performance as the tempestuous, willful Southern Belle.

2008-04-29 15:24:14