From the Vaults: Jacques Tourneur, perhaps better known for his noir and horror films, directed Stars in My Crown, a superb interracial Western starring Joel McCrea in an impeccable performance as a preacher whose faith tames an unruly town by inspiring the townspeople to change.
Stars in My Crown (1950): Jacques (Out of the Past) Tourneur’s Superb Western, Starring Joel McCrea at his Best (Race, Black, Lynch)
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Bikini Party (1964): Teen Comedy, Starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello
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The film belongs to the beach party genre, which was popular in the 1960s.
Alice’s Restaurant (1969): Arthur Penn–Making of Anti-Establishment Movie, Starring Arlo Guthrie, Pat Quinn, James Broderick
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Arthur Penn directed Alice’s Restaurant, a loose adaptation of the 1967 folk song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” originally written and sung by Arlo Guthrie. The film stars Guthrie as himself, with Pat Quinn as Alice Brock and James Broderick as Ray Brock. Penn, who resided in the story’s setting of Stockbridge, co-wrote the script with Venable […]
Shameless: Impact on Actor Jeremy Allen White
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Jeremy Allen White loved playing Philip “Lip” Gallagher on Shameless, but playing the same character for 11 seasons and 134 episodes across 10 years certainly took its toll on the actor.
Skin: Anthony Fabian’s Tale of South African Family Torn by Race, Sarring Sophie Okonedo
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Anthony Fabian directed Skin, a British-South African biopic about Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents, who was classified as “colored” during apartheid, due to genetic case of atavism. The tale draws on the book “When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race,” by Judith Stone. The […]
