In Nazi-occupied Holland, Dutch Colonel Pieter Deventer is aligned with the British forces and searching for a traitor in his ranks. Three screen legends, Clark Gable,...
Either ‘A libel on the negro race’ (according to the Los Angeles Tribune ) or the grandfather of modern soap opera, Douglas Sirk’s textbook weepie Imitation...
Romantic musical drama telling the rise and (in some cases) fall of three Ziegfeld Girls, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, and Lana Turner, rendered in high MGM...
Johnny Eager was an unusual MGM entry into the crime melodrama racket benefits from the high-budget treatment and attractive stars. Johnny, a cagey racketeer looking to...
This version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale about a scientist who develops a potion that separates man’s good and evil natures accentuates the emotional characteristics of...
Lana Turner takes the lead for her last major Hollywood role in Madame X, the seventh version of Alexandre Bisson’s play. She plays Holly Parker, a...
Told in flashback, wartime romantic melodrama Homecoming depicts the repercussions of an extramarital affair on the front lines. Clark Gable enlists as an army surgeon, leaving...
The Headline: Star’s Daughter Fatally Stabs Mom’s Boyfriend It was Good Friday, April 4, 1958, when Lana Turner, the blond “sweater girl” of the ’40s, quarreled...
Only for a short while in the Fifties were Gloria Grahame’s unique talents given full scope. She had been in films since 1944. but first caught...
Lana Turner’s life story epitomizes the dark, dangerous side of Hollywood glamour. Supposedly discovered skipping school one day in a drugstore on Sunset Boulevard. She had...