The bitter off-screen rivalry between co-stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford added fuel to the campy on-screen fire in the thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which debuted 53 years ago this week. Check inside for more fun film facts.
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Happy Back to the Future Day, readers! We salute the “far-off world” of October 21, 2015 that was depicted in Back to the Future Part II and look at how it compares to today’s reality (yes, the lack of practical hoverboards is particularly disappointing).
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Transplanting the story of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai from feudal Japan to the American West, the frontier action classic The Magnificent Seven debuted 55 years ago this week. There’s more than seven more film facts waiting for you inside…and we think they’re magnificent.
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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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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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