Nominated for 7 Oscars, including Best Picture and Supporting Actor for Fred Astaire.
Movie Stars: Granger, Farley–Gay/Bisexual Actor (Strangers on a Train) (LGBTQ0
March 30, 2011 by
Farley Granger, who played the likable tennis pro who was thrust into a murder exchange in Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train in 1951, died Sunday of natural causes in New York. He was 85.
Oscar Movies: Pied Piper, The (1942)
March 29, 2011 by
A good cast, including Mony Woolly and child-actors Roddy McDowall and Peggy Ann Garner, elevate this fable above its sentimental and propagandistic elements, which are understandable considering that the picture was made at the height of WWII.
Oscar: Ten Commandments, The (1956)
March 25, 2011 by
“The Ten Commandments,” Cecil B. De Mille’s last feature (he died in 1959), is also his most lurid, crass, and extravagant, displaying is signature narrative and visual strategies of the past four decades.
Oscar Actors: Taylor, Elizabeth–Hollywood and the Oscars
March 23, 2011 by
Most of Elizabeth Taylor’s nominations and her first Best Actress Oscar were more dependent on events in her life offscreen than with her work on-screen. Her career and Acadmy Awards are interwoven with Hollywood and the Oscars in intricate that illuminate both her work as a top actress and star and the politics of the movie industry.
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