Eight Legendary Foreign Actresses Who Did Not Make It In Hollywood.
They were the darlings of the art house circuit. Their work in a language other than English is some of the greatest ever captured on film. But Hollywood…
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Category: Essays
Eleanor Perry Felt Violated As Husband Frank Took the Credit
Eleanor and Frank Perry’s last movie together was their best, a wonderful adaptation of Sue Kaufman’s “Diary of a Mad Housewife”.
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Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) Film Review A+
Starring a luminous Carrie Snodgress, the last movie that director Frank Perry and his screenwriter wife Eleanor made together is their best.
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David and Lisa (1962) Film Review C
In fact, many of Theodore Isaac Rubin’s beliefs have now fallen out of favor. Despite the film’s sensitive moments, it often seems dangerously simplistic and naive.
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The Swimmer (1968) Film Review B
With a near-great performance by Burt Lancaster as the title character who “swims his way home” through his “river” of backyard swimming pools…
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Last Summer (1969) Film Review A
..but it is Hershey who is really stunning as the manipulative Sandy. Then, into their lives wanders Rhoda (Oscar nominee Cathy Burns)…
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Oppenheimer (2023) Twenty-Four Featured Scientists and the Actors Who Played Them + Lewis Strauss
“Oppenheimer” has more Nobel Prize-winning characters than any other movie in Hollywood history. Who are the Actors who play them (and the spy Klaus Fuchs)?
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500 Actors Who Have Never Been Nominated for an Oscar
Marilyn Monroe was never nominated for an Oscar. Neither was Kim Novak or Edward G. Robinson. Or Jean-Louis Trintignant.. Here are 500 actors who have never been nominated!
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