Gone with the Wind was the winner among 1939’s 10 Best Picture nominees, but the Academy had to overlook a lot of worthy choices that year. This week’s poll wants to know which bypassed movie you think should have been nominated.
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She was the nurse in The Man to Came to Dinner and Now, Voyager, the bus-driving nun in the Sister Act films, and Lucy Ricardo’s ballet teacher on I Love Lucy. Wisecracking actress Mary Wickes is MovieFanFare’s latest Scene Stealer.
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One of the best-loved Christmas TV specials ever marks its 50th anniversary this year. MovieFanFare offers a holly jolly salute to Rankin-Bass’s 1964 animated favorite Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, featuring the voice of Burl Ives.
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Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas celebrates his 98th birthday this week, and our latest poll asks which of Kirk’s screen roles is your favorite. The Bad and the Beautiful, Lust for Life, Spartacus and Seven Days in May are among the classic films to pick from.
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Her grace and charm made her an icon on and off the screen. MovieFanFare remembers Audrey Hepburn and wants your vote for which of the Academy Award-winning actress’s film roles is your favorite.
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Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi went shopping for scares in the 1940 Universal thriller Black Friday, an odd tale of mad doctors, mobsters and brain transplants. Read on to see if the terror titans’ final team-up for the studio was a bargain or a bust.
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MovieFanFare remembers Oscar-winning filmmaker Mike Nichols, who died last week at 83. Vote in our poll for your top film by the director: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Working Girl, and The Birdcage are among the choices.
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As part of the 2014 What a Character! Blogathon, MovieFanFare salutes the life and career of British-born actor Henry Travers, who earned his wings helping James Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and an Academy Award nomination for the WWII drama Mrs. Miniver.
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Jim Carrey revisited one of his best-loved roles this past weekend in the hit sequel Dumb and Dumber To. Vote in our poll for your top Carrey performance, either comical (The Mask, The Cable Guy) or serious (Man on the Moon).
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It’s the week bat-fans have waited for, as the 1966 Batman TV series makes its debut on DVD and Blu-ray. Read about other classic shows–The Mod Squad, Starsky and Hutch, Family Ties, Highway to Heaven and more–also out this week.
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