Movie Biographies: The Long Gray Line

1955 Military Biography
From Columbia Pictures
Directed by John Ford

Starring
Tyrone Power
Maureen O'Hara
Robert Francis
Donald Crisp
Ward Bond
Betsy Palmer
Phil Carey
William Leslie
Harry Carey Jr.
Peter Graves
Sean McClory
Patrick Wayne

Shelley Winters

She once described herself as a rocky road out of the Brooklyn ghetto to one New York apartment, two Oscars, three California houses, four hit plays, five Impressionist paintings, six mink coats and 99 films.  She forgot to mention four husbands (although not when she made the quote), scads of lovers, including some very young ones, and a big mouth.

Dean Stockwell

He was such a cute kid... big dimples, eyes that lit up, a great shock of thick, brown curls and an endearing smile.  He was also a fine actor, recognized as such before he was in a double-digit age.  He was very intelligent and spoke with such a confident air, rather adult-like and his scenes with popular adult actors sparkled.  To this day when I see one of his kid films coming on television, I am quick to watch it.

Visiting Film Noir: Pushover

1954 Film Noir
From Columbia Pictures
Directed by Richard Quine

Starring
Fred MacMurray
Kim Novak
Dorothy Malone
Phil Carey
E. G. Marshall
Paul Richards

Guilty Pleasures: Reflections in a Golden Eye

1967 Drama
From Warner Bros
Directed by John Huston

Starring
Elizabeth Taylor
Marlon Brando
Brian Keith
Julie Harris
Robert Forster
Zorro David

Randolph Scott

I was raised on Randolph Scott.  He made me want to be a cowboy.  I loved his voice, beautifully modulated and reassuring as it was, and I thought he was handsome in an Old West sort of way.  He was almost always the hero and he didn't want it to be any other way.  He usually got the girl but sometimes he just headed out of town alone.

A Glittering Cast: The Towering Inferno

1974 Drama
From 20th Century Fox 
& Warner Bros
Directed by John Guillermin

Starring
Paul Newman
Steve McQueen
William Holden
Faye Dunaway
Fred Astaire
Richard Chamberlain
Jennifer Jones
Robert Vaughn
Robert Wagner
Susan Blakely
Susan Flannery
Don Gordon
Sheila Mathews
Dabney Coleman

Movie Biographies: De-Lovely

2004 Musical Biography
From MGM
Directed by Irwin Winkler

Starring
Kevin Kline
Ashley Judd
Jonathan Pryce
Kevin McNally
Sally Nelson
Allan Corduner
Keith Allen
Richard Dillane
John Barrowman