Peter White, an alum of TV soaps All My Children and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, has died at 86. All My Children costar Kathleen Noone told The Hollywood Reporter that White died of melanoma at home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. White, born in New York City in 1937 and trained at Yale School of Drama, got his start playing Jerry Ames on the CBS soap The Secret Storm from 1965 to 1966. In 1968, he starred in the original, off-Broadway production of the groundbreaking Mart Crowley play The Boys in the Band — which ran for more than 1,000 performances — and reprised his part in the 1970 film adaptation, directed by William Friedkin. (The play begat a Broadway revival in 2018 and a Netflix film with the revival cast.) On CBS’ Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, White played Dr. Sanford Hiller for more than 250 episodes in 1971. And on ABC’s All My Children, White played Lincoln Tyler,...
- 11/5/2023
- TV Insider
Peter White, who starred in ABC’s “All My Children” from 1974-1980 as Lincoln Tyler, has died at the age of 86. White’s death was confirmed by his costar Kathleen Noone to multiple news outlets.
In addition to the soap opera White also starred in the stage and film adaptations of “The Boys in the Band” as well as the drama series “Sisters.” He also made appearances on “Ally McBeal,” “The X-Files,” “The West Wing,” “Jag,” and more.
White was the third actor to take on the role of Tyler. After leaving the role in 1980, he returned for short stints in 1981, 1984, 1986, 1995, and 2005.
He joined the off-Broadway cast of “The Boys in the Band” in 1968 as Alan McCarthy. The play is about a group of gay men who are attending a birthday party in Manhattan; at the end of the play, it is unclear if White’s character is gay.
The...
In addition to the soap opera White also starred in the stage and film adaptations of “The Boys in the Band” as well as the drama series “Sisters.” He also made appearances on “Ally McBeal,” “The X-Files,” “The West Wing,” “Jag,” and more.
White was the third actor to take on the role of Tyler. After leaving the role in 1980, he returned for short stints in 1981, 1984, 1986, 1995, and 2005.
He joined the off-Broadway cast of “The Boys in the Band” in 1968 as Alan McCarthy. The play is about a group of gay men who are attending a birthday party in Manhattan; at the end of the play, it is unclear if White’s character is gay.
The...
- 11/4/2023
- by Stephanie Kaloi
- The Wrap
Now that one of Hollywood’s great studios, 20th Century Fox, has merged into another named Disney, let’s reflect, as a form of final tribute to a proud former stand-alone major, on one of Fox’s great legacies: its Oscars. Its track record with the Academy is far better than the studio that just swallowed it up.
Since 1937, when the fabled Pico Boulevard studio got its first-ever Best Picture nomination for In Old Chicago (a movie that also won Alice Brady only the second Best Supporting Actress Oscar ever given), there have been a remarkable 78 Best Picture nominations overall (by my count) and 12 wins beginning with the studio’s first Best Picture triumph in 1941 for How Green Was My Valley, a decision that still causes controversy even today since that venerable John Ford classic beat Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, considered now by many to be the greatest movie of all time.
Since 1937, when the fabled Pico Boulevard studio got its first-ever Best Picture nomination for In Old Chicago (a movie that also won Alice Brady only the second Best Supporting Actress Oscar ever given), there have been a remarkable 78 Best Picture nominations overall (by my count) and 12 wins beginning with the studio’s first Best Picture triumph in 1941 for How Green Was My Valley, a decision that still causes controversy even today since that venerable John Ford classic beat Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, considered now by many to be the greatest movie of all time.
- 3/20/2019
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
With a budget of $1.5 million, 2017 Best Picture winner “Moonlight” cost less than a 30-second ad during the Oscars (reported price: $2.2 million). And, among the category’s 89 winners, it stands as the lowest-budgeted film in the Academy Awards’ history.
To determine the 10 least expensive Best Picture winners, we looked back at each year, researched reported budgets, and then calculated them at 2017 dollar values. Although independent films have dominated the Oscars for the last decade, the only indie to make the cut from that period was “Crash.” Nor did Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall,” or some black-and-white studio classics like “Casablanca” or “The Lost Weekend.”
The 10 straddle almost every decade of the Oscars and come from either independent producers or smaller distributors (four of the 10 were released by United Artists).
For comparison, the most expensive film to win remains “Titanic;” its adjusted budget was $300 million more than “Moonlight.” That total dwarfs the...
To determine the 10 least expensive Best Picture winners, we looked back at each year, researched reported budgets, and then calculated them at 2017 dollar values. Although independent films have dominated the Oscars for the last decade, the only indie to make the cut from that period was “Crash.” Nor did Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall,” or some black-and-white studio classics like “Casablanca” or “The Lost Weekend.”
The 10 straddle almost every decade of the Oscars and come from either independent producers or smaller distributors (four of the 10 were released by United Artists).
For comparison, the most expensive film to win remains “Titanic;” its adjusted budget was $300 million more than “Moonlight.” That total dwarfs the...
- 3/1/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Twilight Time is celebrating its 4th anniversary with a major promotion that sees some of their limited edition titles reduced in price through April 3. These are the titles on sale.
Group 1
Retail price point: $24.95
Picnic
Pal Joey
Bite The Bullet
Bell, Book, And Candle
Bye Bye Birdie
In Like Flint
Major Dundee
The Blue Max
Crimes And Misdemeanors
Used Cars
Thunderbirds Are Go / Thunderbird 6
Group 2
Retail price point: $19.95
Rapture
Roots Of Heaven
Swamp Water
Demetrius And The Gladiators
Desiree
The Wayward Bus
Cover Girl
High Time
The Sound And The Fury
The Rains Of Ranchipur
Bonjour Tristesse
Beloved Infidel
Lost Horizon
The Blue Lagoon
Experiment In Terror
Nicholas And Alexandra
Pony Soldier
The Song Of Bernadette
Philadelphia
The Only Game In Town
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
Sleepless In Seattle
The Disappearance
Sexy Beast
Drums Along The Mohawk
Alamo Bay
The Other
Mindwarp
Jane Eyre
Oliver
The Way We Were...
Group 1
Retail price point: $24.95
Picnic
Pal Joey
Bite The Bullet
Bell, Book, And Candle
Bye Bye Birdie
In Like Flint
Major Dundee
The Blue Max
Crimes And Misdemeanors
Used Cars
Thunderbirds Are Go / Thunderbird 6
Group 2
Retail price point: $19.95
Rapture
Roots Of Heaven
Swamp Water
Demetrius And The Gladiators
Desiree
The Wayward Bus
Cover Girl
High Time
The Sound And The Fury
The Rains Of Ranchipur
Bonjour Tristesse
Beloved Infidel
Lost Horizon
The Blue Lagoon
Experiment In Terror
Nicholas And Alexandra
Pony Soldier
The Song Of Bernadette
Philadelphia
The Only Game In Town
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
Sleepless In Seattle
The Disappearance
Sexy Beast
Drums Along The Mohawk
Alamo Bay
The Other
Mindwarp
Jane Eyre
Oliver
The Way We Were...
- 3/31/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
On Dec. 12, the Academy released a shortlist of 79 songs in contention for best original song at the 87th Academy Awards, but it’s not so easy to predict which songs will be announced as nominees on Jan. 15. You can’t turn to potential best picture nominees — or best animated features, for that matter — to predict which songs make the final cut. Though a number of best picture nominees have also been nominated for best original song, there’s not much correlation between the two.
The original song category was first introduced at the 7th Annual Academy Awards, and the winner was “The Continental” from 1934’s The Gay Divorcee, also nominated for best picture.
Nineteen of the 80 Oscar-winning songs have come from best picture nominees. They are as follows:
“The Continental” — The Gay Divorcee (1934) “Over the Rainbow” — The Wizard of Oz (1939) “Swinging on a Star” — Going My Way...
Managing Editor
On Dec. 12, the Academy released a shortlist of 79 songs in contention for best original song at the 87th Academy Awards, but it’s not so easy to predict which songs will be announced as nominees on Jan. 15. You can’t turn to potential best picture nominees — or best animated features, for that matter — to predict which songs make the final cut. Though a number of best picture nominees have also been nominated for best original song, there’s not much correlation between the two.
The original song category was first introduced at the 7th Annual Academy Awards, and the winner was “The Continental” from 1934’s The Gay Divorcee, also nominated for best picture.
Nineteen of the 80 Oscar-winning songs have come from best picture nominees. They are as follows:
“The Continental” — The Gay Divorcee (1934) “Over the Rainbow” — The Wizard of Oz (1939) “Swinging on a Star” — Going My Way...
- 12/22/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
Copyright: WWE You Think You Know Me Blu-ray
Love is a many splendored thing. Love is what makes the world go round. All you need is love. You’ve heard all those sayings, well, I’m here to say they don’t apply in professional wrestling. In the squared circle, love is worse than a low blow from behind. The two just don’t mix well. For every magical couple like Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth, there’s 10 more that were just uncomfortable to watch. Some people just don’t belong together, and yet, WWE would try.
Most of the men and women that the company put together in an on-air relationship just didn’t have the chemistry or the acting skills necessary to make you believe they were truly in love. Besides the awkwardness of the couples closer resembling a school yard romance than an adult relationship, the writing...
Love is a many splendored thing. Love is what makes the world go round. All you need is love. You’ve heard all those sayings, well, I’m here to say they don’t apply in professional wrestling. In the squared circle, love is worse than a low blow from behind. The two just don’t mix well. For every magical couple like Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth, there’s 10 more that were just uncomfortable to watch. Some people just don’t belong together, and yet, WWE would try.
Most of the men and women that the company put together in an on-air relationship just didn’t have the chemistry or the acting skills necessary to make you believe they were truly in love. Besides the awkwardness of the couples closer resembling a school yard romance than an adult relationship, the writing...
- 2/14/2014
- by Andrew Soucek
- Obsessed with Film
All alone on Valentine’s Day? Well don’t worry — so is half of Hollywood. Justin Bieber, James Franco, Niall Horan, and other lonely-hearts celebs have already tweeted out their love, so go ahead and meet your famous Valentine below!
Love is a many splendored thing — but it can also be a major pain if you’re all alone on Valentine’s Day. Maybe the love tweets from your favorite celebs — many of them single! — will help ease the pain better than a bottle of red and bag of peanut M&Ms.
Valentine’s Day: Justin Bieber, James Franco & More Celebs Tweet Out Love
Aw, they really are just like us. Some of Twitter’s hottest celebrities used social media to tweet out their Valentine’s Day feelings — some good, some bad, some… whatever Ricky Gervais just did.
Valentine's Day Outfit Ideas
Either way, everyone’s message seems to be clear — relax,...
Love is a many splendored thing — but it can also be a major pain if you’re all alone on Valentine’s Day. Maybe the love tweets from your favorite celebs — many of them single! — will help ease the pain better than a bottle of red and bag of peanut M&Ms.
Valentine’s Day: Justin Bieber, James Franco & More Celebs Tweet Out Love
Aw, they really are just like us. Some of Twitter’s hottest celebrities used social media to tweet out their Valentine’s Day feelings — some good, some bad, some… whatever Ricky Gervais just did.
Valentine's Day Outfit Ideas
Either way, everyone’s message seems to be clear — relax,...
- 2/14/2014
- by Shaunna Murphy
- HollywoodLife
Feature James Clayton 14 Feb 2014 - 05:49
With Her out on Valentines Day, James considers the topic of romance in the movies, and love in the techno-savvy 21st century...
Happy Valentine's Day! Hip hip hooray for the over-commercial super-sappy celebration of romance and close personal relationships! I hope that this column finds you all swept up in sweet emotions and lovely feelings. I hope that you're now breathless and gasping for air having been submerged beneath a sea of affectionate greeting cards, chocolate boxes and sexual propositions from attractive strangers.
If not, use your imagination - it's so much better than reality, especially if reality is disappointing you on Valentine's Day. Today you should be feeling the love and experiencing things that are 'romantic'. Romantic action might be quite rare for many and that probably makes this novel - albeit, suspect - cultural event all the more worthwhile. Love needs to...
With Her out on Valentines Day, James considers the topic of romance in the movies, and love in the techno-savvy 21st century...
Happy Valentine's Day! Hip hip hooray for the over-commercial super-sappy celebration of romance and close personal relationships! I hope that this column finds you all swept up in sweet emotions and lovely feelings. I hope that you're now breathless and gasping for air having been submerged beneath a sea of affectionate greeting cards, chocolate boxes and sexual propositions from attractive strangers.
If not, use your imagination - it's so much better than reality, especially if reality is disappointing you on Valentine's Day. Today you should be feeling the love and experiencing things that are 'romantic'. Romantic action might be quite rare for many and that probably makes this novel - albeit, suspect - cultural event all the more worthwhile. Love needs to...
- 2/13/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Life of Pi by Dean WaltonI was just looking as a series of graphic Best Picture prints designed by Dean Walton and my mind wandered into a geeky Oscaroborus that I couldn't break free of. The series of prints is referred to as a "full series" but there's only five: Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Zero Dark Thirty, Les Misérables, and Lincoln. Um. There are nine Best Picture nominees this year, Dean!
It got me to thinking. I don't even think those would have been "the five", had there been just five. It's not so easy to discount Argo, Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Silver Linings Playbook given the final vote tallies. I think we might have had a year of 3/5 Picture/Director split year. Or even gasp 2/5... which has happened before believe it or not.
Way back in 1955 the Best Picture nominees were: Marty, Picnic, Love is a Many Splendored Thing,...
It got me to thinking. I don't even think those would have been "the five", had there been just five. It's not so easy to discount Argo, Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Silver Linings Playbook given the final vote tallies. I think we might have had a year of 3/5 Picture/Director split year. Or even gasp 2/5... which has happened before believe it or not.
Way back in 1955 the Best Picture nominees were: Marty, Picnic, Love is a Many Splendored Thing,...
- 1/29/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Amour
Directed by Michael Haneke
Written by Michael Haneke
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Love is a many splendored thing, and never was the promise of ‘until death do us part’ more ruthlessly examined that in Amour, one of the most highly anticipated films of this years London Film Festival. Taking the prestigious Palme D’Or at Cannes Michael Haneke’s follow-up to his similarly award laden The White Ribbon is another powerful work, a chamber piece with a fantastically talented cast with strong candidates for the most desolate performances of the year. In present day Paris an elderly couple Georges (Trintignant) and Anne (Riva, who displayed a more youthful love in a different form fifty years ago in Rensais Hiroshima Mon Amour) attend a piano recital and retire back to their modest apartment. Both are retired music tutors who are quietly gentle, affectionate and caring of each other,...
Directed by Michael Haneke
Written by Michael Haneke
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Love is a many splendored thing, and never was the promise of ‘until death do us part’ more ruthlessly examined that in Amour, one of the most highly anticipated films of this years London Film Festival. Taking the prestigious Palme D’Or at Cannes Michael Haneke’s follow-up to his similarly award laden The White Ribbon is another powerful work, a chamber piece with a fantastically talented cast with strong candidates for the most desolate performances of the year. In present day Paris an elderly couple Georges (Trintignant) and Anne (Riva, who displayed a more youthful love in a different form fifty years ago in Rensais Hiroshima Mon Amour) attend a piano recital and retire back to their modest apartment. Both are retired music tutors who are quietly gentle, affectionate and caring of each other,...
- 10/13/2012
- by John
- SoundOnSight
C.B.S. Slipping From Long Daytime TV Lead
By George Gent
New York Times
January 21, 1972
Daytime television is a woman's world of exquisitely prolonged suffering, greed, hate, abortions, betrayals and young and middle-aged love. It is a world with a seemingly endless fascination for some 50 million viewers who together make up a market of more than $300-million annually for which the three major networks battle tirelessly. For 17 years, the Columbia Broadcasting System has reigned supreme over that world without serious challenge. Until now.
The challenge, from the National Broadcasting Company and American Broadcasting Company, has sparked a frantic scramble at all three networks to further improve their ratings posture and has set off another round of the TV industry's favorite indoor parlor games - executive musical chairs.
The threat to C.B.S was best explained by Oscar Katz, the networks vice president of programs on the East Coast and a veteran daytime programmer.
By George Gent
New York Times
January 21, 1972
Daytime television is a woman's world of exquisitely prolonged suffering, greed, hate, abortions, betrayals and young and middle-aged love. It is a world with a seemingly endless fascination for some 50 million viewers who together make up a market of more than $300-million annually for which the three major networks battle tirelessly. For 17 years, the Columbia Broadcasting System has reigned supreme over that world without serious challenge. Until now.
The challenge, from the National Broadcasting Company and American Broadcasting Company, has sparked a frantic scramble at all three networks to further improve their ratings posture and has set off another round of the TV industry's favorite indoor parlor games - executive musical chairs.
The threat to C.B.S was best explained by Oscar Katz, the networks vice president of programs on the East Coast and a veteran daytime programmer.
- 8/18/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
On this date in...
1958: Actor Shawn Campbell was born. He is best known for playing Ricky Donnelly on Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (Beverlee McKinsey played his mother at one point), and later Billy Aldrich on The Doctors. He died in 1993 at the age of 34.
2006: Melissa Claire Egan debuted on All My Children as Annie.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Earl Hamner Jr. (Creator/Producer, Falcon Crest) - 88
Robert Pine (ex-Mr. Whitlow, General Hospital: Night Shift; ex-Jim, The Young And The Restless; ex-Stephen, The Bold And The Beautiful; ex-Walker, Days Of Our Lives) - 70
Nancy Frangione (ex-Cecile, Another World; ex-Tara, All My Children; ex-Tina, One Life To Live) - 58
Michael Woods (ex-Jay/Alec, As The World Turns; ex-Jim, Guiding Light; ex-Dr. Auckland, Passions; ex-Kent, All My Children; ex-Mark, Texas) - 54
Gale Harold (ex-Jackson, Desperate Housewives; ex-Brian, Queer As Folk) - 42
Sofía Vergara (ex-Leonora, Fuego En La Sangre; ex-Sofia,...
1958: Actor Shawn Campbell was born. He is best known for playing Ricky Donnelly on Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (Beverlee McKinsey played his mother at one point), and later Billy Aldrich on The Doctors. He died in 1993 at the age of 34.
2006: Melissa Claire Egan debuted on All My Children as Annie.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Earl Hamner Jr. (Creator/Producer, Falcon Crest) - 88
Robert Pine (ex-Mr. Whitlow, General Hospital: Night Shift; ex-Jim, The Young And The Restless; ex-Stephen, The Bold And The Beautiful; ex-Walker, Days Of Our Lives) - 70
Nancy Frangione (ex-Cecile, Another World; ex-Tara, All My Children; ex-Tina, One Life To Live) - 58
Michael Woods (ex-Jay/Alec, As The World Turns; ex-Jim, Guiding Light; ex-Dr. Auckland, Passions; ex-Kent, All My Children; ex-Mark, Texas) - 54
Gale Harold (ex-Jackson, Desperate Housewives; ex-Brian, Queer As Folk) - 42
Sofía Vergara (ex-Leonora, Fuego En La Sangre; ex-Sofia,...
- 7/10/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
By most accounts, Harry Cohn was a royal son of a bitch.
For the uninformed, Harry Cohn was co-founder of Columbia Pictures, and the autocratic ruler of the studio from its founding in 1919 until his death in 1958. He was vulgar, crass, tyrannical, a screaming, foul-mouthed verbal bully i.e. a royal son of a bitch.
He was also a cheap son of a bitch.
Originally considered a “Poverty Row” studio, Cohn’s Columbia – at least at first – refused to build a roster of salaried stars as the other studios did. Cohn didn’t want the overhead or the headaches he saw saddling other studio chiefs with their contract talent. Cheaper and easier was to pay those studios a flat fee for the one-time use of their marquee value stars to give Columbia’s B-budgeted flicks an A-list shine. Columbia was considered such a nickel-and-dime outfit at the time that other...
For the uninformed, Harry Cohn was co-founder of Columbia Pictures, and the autocratic ruler of the studio from its founding in 1919 until his death in 1958. He was vulgar, crass, tyrannical, a screaming, foul-mouthed verbal bully i.e. a royal son of a bitch.
He was also a cheap son of a bitch.
Originally considered a “Poverty Row” studio, Cohn’s Columbia – at least at first – refused to build a roster of salaried stars as the other studios did. Cohn didn’t want the overhead or the headaches he saw saddling other studio chiefs with their contract talent. Cheaper and easier was to pay those studios a flat fee for the one-time use of their marquee value stars to give Columbia’s B-budgeted flicks an A-list shine. Columbia was considered such a nickel-and-dime outfit at the time that other...
- 6/22/2011
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
Love is a many splendored thing. It can also be quite a pricey thing, depending on the cut and clarity with which you choose to express said love. Enter Reese Witherspoon and LeAnn Rimes, just two of the blushing brides-to-be to get caught up in this holiday season's engagement tidal wave. So on to the admittedly crass but oh-so-interesting question at hand: in one corner, you have Jim Toth, a perfectly successful agent, who, not having starred in a string of hit movies, falls a bit below his A-list missus' paygrade. In the other, we have Eddie Cibrian, who has starred in movies, but who also has been reported to have something of a cash flow problem at the moment. So, whose ring set their...
- 1/6/2011
- E! Online
Anne Sargent (ex-Connie, The First Hundred Years) - 87
Linda Evans (ex-Krystle, Dynasty) - 68
Susan Sullivan (ex-Lenore, Another World; ex-Nancy, A World Apart; ex-Maggie, Falcon Crest) - 68
Peter Brouwer (ex-Alex, One Life To Live; ex-Brad, As The World Turns; ex-Joe, Love Of Life) - 65
Glenn Walken (ex-Mike, Guiding Light) - 65
Jameson Parker (ex-Dale, Somerset; ex-Brad, One Life To Live) - 63
Gilles Kohler (ex-Gilles, All My Children) - 62
Andrea Marcovicci (ex-Betsy, Love Is A Many Splendored Thing) - 62
Shari Shattuck (ex-Ashley, The Young And The Restless; ex-Heather, The Bold And The Beautiful) - 50
Paul Korver (ex-Chris, As The World Turns) - 39...
Linda Evans (ex-Krystle, Dynasty) - 68
Susan Sullivan (ex-Lenore, Another World; ex-Nancy, A World Apart; ex-Maggie, Falcon Crest) - 68
Peter Brouwer (ex-Alex, One Life To Live; ex-Brad, As The World Turns; ex-Joe, Love Of Life) - 65
Glenn Walken (ex-Mike, Guiding Light) - 65
Jameson Parker (ex-Dale, Somerset; ex-Brad, One Life To Live) - 63
Gilles Kohler (ex-Gilles, All My Children) - 62
Andrea Marcovicci (ex-Betsy, Love Is A Many Splendored Thing) - 62
Shari Shattuck (ex-Ashley, The Young And The Restless; ex-Heather, The Bold And The Beautiful) - 50
Paul Korver (ex-Chris, As The World Turns) - 39...
- 11/18/2010
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Ah, l'amour! From "Love Actually" to "Shakespeare in Love" to "Love Story," here's a collection of swoon-inducing movie quotes with the word "love" in them. Ya gotta love it! Movie Quotes: Love on the Big Screen"Great Expectations" (1998)
"She'll only break your heart, it's a fact. And even though I warn you, even though I guarantee you that the girl will only hurt you terribly, you'll still pursue her. Ain't love grand?" — Ms. Dinsmoor
"The Bridges of Madison County...
"She'll only break your heart, it's a fact. And even though I warn you, even though I guarantee you that the girl will only hurt you terribly, you'll still pursue her. Ain't love grand?" — Ms. Dinsmoor
"The Bridges of Madison County...
- 9/5/2010
- Extra
Like other film lovers of my generation, I was not yet born when Phylis Isley began her auspicious acting career during America's post-wwii boom. With no revival houses in the small Virginia town in which I grew up, I first saw the films of the luminous actress whom we now know as Jennifer Jones on a black-and-white television screen in the early 1960s. Some of the classic films starring the iconic yet underrated actress that left early, indelible impressions were Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (1955), The Portrait of Jennie (1948), Since You Went Away (1944), Love Letters (1945), and Madame Bovary (1949). Each performance evokes a rare level of passion and a connection to other worlds, which became the actress's trademarks. They awakened in me an exuberance for classic American film that...
- 1/8/2010
- by Penelope Andrew
- Huffington Post
1950s singer and songwriter Al Alberts has died at his Florida home aged 87, The AP reports. Alberts led The Four Aces to chart success with hits such as '(It's No) Sin' and 'Tell Me Why'. The quartet were awarded Academy Awards for best song in 1955 and 1956 for 'Three Coins In The Fountain' and 'Love Is A Many Splendored Thing', (more)...
- 11/28/2009
- by By Sarah Rollo
- Digital Spy
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