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11/11/2020

05/03/2020

Cagney speaks Yiddish in this PRE-CODE send-up of the studio system!

Directed by Roy Del Ruth. With James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay, Leslie Fenton. A former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.

12/10/2019

The Amazing Kirk Douglas is 103 !

11/08/2019

Gotcha! ....Again

The lawsuit alleges that Trump used his foundation "as little more than a checkbook."

10/10/2019

It just keeps rolling along.. and downhill.

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman helped connect Giuliani with Ukrainian officials as part of his efforts to investigate Joe Biden.

02/24/2019

Stanley Donen, who directed or co-directed some of Hollywood's best-known movie musicals, including “On the Town,” “Royal Wedding” and what many consider the greatest movie musical of all time, “Singin' in the Rain,” has died.

04/14/2018

The Czech native also helmed 'The Firemen's Ball,' 'Hair,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt' and 'Man on the Moon.'

04/13/2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAOIRSE RONAN!

Happy Birthday to Saoirse Ronan What's your favorite movie with this three-time Oscar nominee?

02/25/2018

A LONG AND DISTINGUISHED CAREER- TONY and EMMY WINNER NANETTE FABRAY...

Ms. Fabray won a Tony for a performance on Broadway in the 1940s and three Emmys for her work with Sid Caesar in the 1950s.

10/02/2017

The Cocoanuts - Wage Slaves

TRUMP AND HIS WORKERS

"You want to be wage slaves? Well what makes a wage slave? WAGES."

09/25/2017

Acorn TV

NEW "DOC MARTIN" EPISODES STREAMING NOW ON ACORN

See it first: all-new episodes of Doc Martin are now streaming exclusively on Acorn TV, just one day after they premiere in the UK!

08/25/2017

Movies Unlimited

"The Egyptian," starring Jean Simmons, Victor Mature & Gene Tierney, was released today in 1954. The film has the dubious distinction of being the first-ever box-office flop in CinemaScope.

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08/09/2017

Happy Birthday Sam Elliot

Happy Birthday to Sam Elliott What's your favorite movie from his career?

08/03/2017

British Period Drama

The great British actor Robert Hardy, star of All Creatures Great and Small and more recently in the Harry Potter films has died at age 85. A familiar and sturdy presence on television on such productions as Little Dorrit , Edward the King , Elizabeth R, Middlemarch, and War and Remembrance, he is well known for his multiple portrayals of Winston Churchill.

RIP

Harry Potter actor Robert Hardy dies at 85

07/31/2017

Movies Unlimited

We mourn the passing of a great and iconic actress

We are sad to hear that Jeanne Moreau, a legend in French cinema, has passed away.

07/20/2017

A fine actor with a career of over 50 movie and television roles. We all know him from The Hunt For Red October, but films like The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Logan's Run, Gettysburg, A Flash of Green, The Death of Mary Phagan, and Valdez is Coming give a wider view of his talent. He won the GOLDEN GLOBE for Best Actor in the mini-series Captains and the Kings.

Richard Jordan was born today in 1937. What's your favorite movie from his career?

06/10/2017

New York Daily News

New York Daily News

The actor best known for playing Batman died at 88.

06/07/2017

TONY RICHARDSON -OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER OF "TOM JONES". WAS ONE OF THE PROPONENTS OF THE "KITCHEN SINK" GENRE , DIRECTING A NEW WAVE OF GRITTY FILMS FEATURING THE LIVES OF LOWER CLASS BRITONS. THESE FILMS OFTEN SHOWCASED THE TALENTS OF YOUNG ACTORS, DESTINED FOR GREATNESS. ALAN BATES, ALBERT FINNEY, JOAN PLOWRIGHT, RITA TUSHINGHAM, TOM COURTNEY, AND RICHARD BURTON, ALL APPEARED IN EARLY FEATURED ROLES. THESE FILMS INCLUDE "THE ENTERTAINER", "A TASTE OF HONEY", "THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER", AND "LOOK BACK IN ANGER". RICHARDSON ALSO DIRECTED THE BRILLIANT SEND-UP OF THE FUNERAL INDUSTRY " THE LOVED ONE" AND "BLUE SKY", WHICH STARS JESSICA LANGE (BEST ACTRESS OSCAR) AND TOMMY LEE JONES. HE WAS THE HUSBAND OF VANESSA REDGRAVE, AND THE FATHER OF JOELY RICHARDSON AND NATASHA RICHARDSON.

Tony Richardson was born today in 1928. What's your favorite movie from this Oscar-winning director?

06/04/2017

THE AMAZING ROSALIND !

Rosalind Russell was born today in 1907. What's your favorite movie from her career?

05/30/2017

Sofia Coppola Wins Best Director at Cannes, Becoming Only the Second Woman to Do So

Sofia Coppola Wins Best Director at Cannes, Becoming Only the Second Woman to Do So

The awards ceremony for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival took place on Sunday, culminating with a Palme d’Or win for Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s sati ...

05/18/2017

IT'S HERE AT ALAN'S ALLEY

"The Left Handed Gun," starring Paul Newman as Billy the Kid, opened today in 1958.

04/19/2017

Film Forum

Film Forum

"Mr. Wiseman’s great subject is human beings, in all of their — of our — variety and uniqueness." (NY Times)

See the celebrated filmmaker's early masterpieces at Film Forum now through April 27! http://bit.ly/2p1QxNd

04/01/2017

Claire Foy(Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix' THE CROWN), Damian Lewis (HOMELAN' AVAILAD), and Mark Rylance (Supporting Actor Oscar for BRIDGE of SPIES) . ITS AVAILABLE AT ALAN'S ALLEY

Tune-in alert: An encore presentation of Wolf Hall begins this Sunday, April 2 at 10/9c on MASTERPIECE on PBS!

03/29/2017

THREE OSCARS -HENRY FONDA, AND KATHERINE HEPBURN WON BEST ACTOR AWARDS AND ERNEST THOMPSON WON FOR BEST SCREENPLAY, WHICH HE ADAPTED FROM HIS STAGE PLAY. IT WAS ALSO NOMINATED FOR SEVEN MORE OSCARS: Supporting Actress Jane Fonda, Music Dave Gruisin, Director Mark Rydell, Cinematography Billy Williams, Editing Robert L. Wolfe, Sound Richard Portman and David M. Ronne, Best Picture -producer Bruce Gilbert

Henry Fonda finally won the Academy Award for Best Actor today in 1982, for his performance in On Golden Pond Movie

03/27/2017

MASTERPIECE | PBS

tonight at 9 PM

MASTERPIECE is one of the most popular drama series in TV history -- Bringing you the best in classic adaptations, mysteries filled with eclectic characters, and provocative contemporary works.

03/16/2017

Acorn TV

IRELAND'S NEW TOP DRAMA STARTS ON ACORN ON MARCH 17

Ireland's top new drama is coming exclusively to Acorn TV on March 17!

03/07/2017

Turner Classic Movies: TCM

A beautiful tribute to our favorite host/guide/human

"Robert Osborne was a great man...[He] was as you saw him – distinguished, funny, unfairly charming, and smart as hell," Ben Mankiewicz. Beautifully said, Ben.

You can read Ben's moving tribute at The Hollywood Reporter.

02/27/2017

Legendary Japanese animator Miyazaki comes out of retirement for new film | The Japan Times

BIG NEWS FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES!

Oscar-winning Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki has come out of retirement to work on a new animated feature film, a producer at Studio Ghibli has said. The

02/07/2017

WONDERFUL, VERSATILE ACTRESS..... STUNT MAN, DANIEL DERONDA, TIN MEN, A WORLD APART, HOOSIERS, HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, THE RIGHT STUFF, THE NATURAL.. SO MANY FINE PERFORMANCES.

Happy birthday, Barbara Hershey. The actress, who began acting as a teenager and won an Emmy for the 1990 miniseries "A Killing in a Small Town," best actress at Cannes for 1987's "Shy People" and 1988's "A World Apart" and earned an Oscar nomination for supporting actress for 1996's "Portrait of a Lady," is 69 today. What is your favorite Hershey film? Photo of Hershey from the L.A. Times archives.

01/04/2017

OSCAR WINNER FOR BILLY WILDER'S "THE LOST WEEKEND". MANY MEMORABLE ROLES- "DIAL'M' FOR MURDER", "THE UNINVITED", "EASY LIVING", "THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR", "MINISTRY OF FEAR", "THE BIG CLOCK", "LOVE STORY"- PLUS CLASSIC SCI-FI FILMS LATE IN HIS CAREER. DOZENS OF TV EPISODES. ENJOY!

Ray Milland was born today in 1905. What's your favorite film from this Oscar-winning actor?

12/29/2016

Naughty and nice!
A Hitchcock great!
Cary is Cary (what's wrong with that?) and Eva Marie Saint is no saint!
And in case Cary's beautiful voice isn't enough, James Mason adds a little extra "not nice" with his dripping sarcasm.

Cary Grant and James Mason in Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST ('59)

12/26/2016

BFI

Jack Cardiff uses technicolor like no one else! Enjoy one of cinema's under appreciated gems !

Why should you watch? Because this Technicolor triumph bleeds beauty and enchantment; because it shows what cinema and its visionaries can achieve, and because David Niven and Kim Hunter prove that the poet was right: what will survive of us is love.

12/14/2016

BEGINNERS (HIS OSCAR WINNING ROLE), THE LAST STATION (OSCAR NOMINATION), A BEAUTIFUL MIND, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY ,THE INSIDER, EYEWITNESS, AND ..OH YEAH, THE SOUND OF MUSIC!

Happy Birthday to Christopher Plummer What's your favorite movie with this Oscar winner?

12/13/2016

the almost normal....BILL NIGHY!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL!!!

Bill Nighy.

12/11/2016

ONE OF THE GREATEST SCREEN PERSONALITIES- LARGER THAN LIFE PERFORMANCES IN "THE QUIET MAN" , "SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON" , "GUNGA DIN" , "WEE WILLIE WINKIE" , AND HIS OSCAR WINNING ROLE AS "THE INFORMER" . A BOXER BEFORE HIS ACTING CAREER STARTED, HE FOUGHT THE NEWLY- CROWNED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION JACK JOHNSON IN A SIX ROUND EXHIBITION. HIS SON, ANDREW V. MCLAGLEN, DIRECTED DOZENS OF FILMS AND TV SHOWS (McLINTOCK, GUNSMOKE, WAGON TRAIN, THE DEVIL'S BRIGADE).

Born Today, December 10 in 1886 Victor McLaglen...

"He'll regret it till his dying day, if ever he lives that long." - Victor McLaglen as Squire Danaher in The Quiet Man

Over 120 film and tv roles including The Informer (Best Actor Win), The Quiet Man (Supporting Actor Nomination), Gunga Din, The Princess and the Pirate, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon...

11/29/2016

The Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2016

CONGRATULATIONS TO JESSI KLEIN, ALAN'S ALLEY ALUM- AS SOON AS YOU GOT OUT OF OUR DIRTY CLUTCHES YOUR REAL LIFE TOOK OFF- SO HAPPY FOR THIS NEW RECOGNITION OF YOUR TALENT AND HUMANITY.

From 'Girls and S*x' to 'Known and Strange Things'