She melted Bogart’s heart in High Sierra and was the love interest for Gary Cooper’s Sergeant York and James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy. We remember film and TV actress Joan Leslie, who passed away this week at 90.
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Dwight Frye: The Man with the Thousand-Watt Stare
He guarded Dracula’s coffin and tormented Frankenstein’s Monster, but yearned for the dramatic roles that won him acclaim on Broadway. In this classic Scene Stealers salute, we trace the life and stormy screen career of the wide-eyed and often maniacal Dwight Frye.
Read more →Poll: What’s the Best Pre-1968 Zombie Film?
Zombies were a horror movie staple long before Night of the Living Dead turned them from supernatural servants to flesh-eating fiends. Vote in this week’s poll for your favorite pre-1968 “walking dead” flick: White Zombie, Zombies of Mora Tau, and more.
Read more →This Week in Film History: 10/11/15
It was 75 years ago this week that writer/director/star Charlie Chaplin’s bitingly funny send-up of Hitler’s rise to power, The Great Dictator, opened to commercial and critical acclaim worldwide, despite being banned in Germany. Find more classic movie moments inside,
Read more →Poll: What’s Your Favorite Clint Eastwood Western Film?
His starring turn in 1964’s A Fistful of Dollars revitalized the western genre, and his 1992 frontier coda Unforgiven won a Best Picture Academy Award. This week’s poll rounds up Clint Eastwood’s western films and asks you to pick your favorite.
Read more →This Week in Film History: 10/4/15
Moviegoers learned to count to 10 in droves when hapless Dudley Moore pursued dream girl Bo Derek in director Blake Edwards’ romantic farce “10,” which opened 36 years ago this week. We’ve got a lot more than 10 fun film facts awaiting inside.
Read more →James Dean, My Sixth Cousin on My Father’s Side
Today is the 60th anniversary of the car crash death of Hollywood icon James Dean…with whom MovieFanFare’s Gary Cahall shares a (distant) paternal relative. Check out the story, and let us know if there are any Hollywood notables in your family tree.
Read more →This Week in Film History: 9/27/15
He was already a hero to a generation of moviegoers, but James Dean’s death in an auto accident 60 years ago this week turned the star of East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant into an icon. Read on for more memories from Hollywood’s past.
Read more →Rocky Horror at 40: Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?
MovieFanFare marks four decades of tossing confetti, yelling out lines and dancing the Time Warp at midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as one writer recalls his late ’70s Rocky heyday and compares it to a recent theater viewing.
Read more →Poll: What’s Your Favorite TV Show Debut from 1965?
With the fall TV premieres set to go, we look back to the 1965 season. Which “Golden Anniversary” debuting series–Branded, Get Smart, Green Acres, I Spy, and Lost in Space, to name a few–is your favorite? Vote in our poll and tell us why.
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