Turner Classic Movies (TCM) reveals a startling portrait of one of Hollywood’s most gifted and enigmatic stars in Stardust: The Bette Davis Story, premiering Wednesday, May 3, at 8 p.m. ET. Narrated by Oscar®-winning actress Susan Sarandon and written and directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jones
Watch Stardust Trailer HERE
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) reveals a startling portrait of one of Hollywood’s most gifted and enigmatic stars in Stardust: The Bette Davis Story, premiering Wednesday, May 3, at 8 p.m. ET. Narrated by Oscar®-winning actress Susan Sarandon and written and directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jones
Watch Stardust Trailer HERE
This is a masterful and heartbreaking film, and it does honor to the memory of the victims.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert (read)
“Famous people feel that they must be on the crest of the wave, not realizing that it is against all the rules of life. You can’t be on the top all the time, it isn’t natural.” – Olivia de Havilland
When The Day the Ear th Stood Stillpremiered, World War II was only six years behind us. We were still eighteen years away from landing on the moon. Even Sputnik was six years in the future. But the Atomic Age had arrived with a bang (two of them, in fact) and in a flash Everything Changed. Here’s a movie that held up a mirror to some newly validated fears — such as our anxieties about weapons of mass destruction (the kind that actually existed), and about the part of ourselves that could let mob psychology and fear-based reactionism get seriously, globally out of control in ways that The Good War only hinted at.*
Today we watch The Day the Earth Stood Still and what strikes us most about it — perhaps more than the simple and polished screenplay by Edmund H. North (Patton), or Robert Wise’s quietly thoughtful directing, or the splendid yet sparingly used special effects, or Bernard Herrmann’s pathbreaking Theremin concerto musical score — is how little the world has fundamentally changed since 1951. All the international “petty squabbling” and “strange, unreasoning attitudes” that Klaatu found so distasteful have proved damn hard to grow out of.
The working titles of this film were Farewell to the Master and Journey to the World . Harry Bates’s short story also appeared in a 1946 anthology of science fiction stories entitled Adventures in Time and Space . It received a Golden Globe Award as the “Best Film Promoting International Understanding.” The picture, which is regarded by many film historians as one of the most influential and noteworthy of the 1950s cycle of science fiction films, received very positive reviews. The Time reviewer judged the picture to be “by far the best of Hollywood’s recent flights into science-fiction.” Gort is regarded by science fiction aficionados as one of the most best-loved and well-known of motion picture robots, and the command “Gort! Klaatu Barada Nikto” has become a part of the American film lexicon.
“Famous people feel that they must be on the crest of the wave, not realizing that it is against all the rules of life. You can’t be on the top all the time, it isn’t natural.” – Olivia de Havilland
When The Day the Ear th Stood Stillpremiered, World War II was only six years behind us. We were still eighteen years away from landing on the moon. Even Sputnik was six years in the future. But the Atomic Age had arrived with a bang (two of them, in fact) and in a flash Everything Changed. Here’s a movie that held up a mirror to some newly validated fears — such as our anxieties about weapons of mass destruction (the kind that actually existed), and about the part of ourselves that could let mob psychology and fear-based reactionism get seriously, globally out of control in ways that The Good War only hinted at.*
Today we watch The Day the Earth Stood Still and what strikes us most about it — perhaps more than the simple and polished screenplay by Edmund H. North (Patton), or Robert Wise’s quietly thoughtful directing, or the splendid yet sparingly used special effects, or Bernard Herrmann’s pathbreaking Theremin concerto musical score — is how little the world has fundamentally changed since 1951. All the international “petty squabbling” and “strange, unreasoning attitudes” that Klaatu found so distasteful have proved damn hard to grow out of.
The working titles of this film were Farewell to the Master and Journey to the World . Harry Bates’s short story also appeared in a 1946 anthology of science fiction stories entitled Adventures in Time and Space . It received a Golden Globe Award as the “Best Film Promoting International Understanding.” The picture, which is regarded by many film historians as one of the most influential and noteworthy of the 1950s cycle of science fiction films, received very positive reviews. The Time reviewer judged the picture to be “by far the best of Hollywood’s recent flights into science-fiction.” Gort is regarded by science fiction aficionados as one of the most best-loved and well-known of motion picture robots, and the command “Gort! Klaatu Barada Nikto” has become a part of the American film lexicon.
Beverly Hills, CA — Oscar-winning screen legend Olivia de Havilland will be honored with an Academy Tribute on June 15, 2006, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The two-time Academy Award winner will travel from her home in France to the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills for the event, which will feature film clips of her most-admired performances and discussion with colleagues from throughout her career.
Born on July 1, 1916, in Tokyo to English parents, de Havilland made her screen debut as Hermia in Max Reinhardt’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1935, a role that she had also played on stage at the Hollywood Bowl. Her pairing with Errol Flynn in “Captain Blood,” also in 1935, proved a great success and subsequently the two starred together in seven more films, helping to solidify her leading lady status.
De Havilland earned the first of her five Academy Award nominations for her supporting performance as Melanie Hamilton in “Gone with the Wind.” Two years later, in 1941, her lead performance as Emmy Brown in “Hold Back the Dawn” was nominated. She earned her first Oscar statuette for her portrayal of Jody Norris in “To Each His Own” (1946). “The Snake Pit” (1948), in which she played Virginia Stuart Cunningham, provided de Havilland with another nominated lead performance and in 1949 she took home her second Academy Award for her role as Catherine Sloper in “The Heiress.” Among the directors with whom she worked during this period and later in her career were Michael Curtiz, Victor Fleming, Lewis Gilbert, John Huston, Stanley Kramer, Mitchell Leisen, Anatole Litvak and William Wyler.
Tickets for An Academy Tribute to Olivia de Havilland will go on sale June 1, 2006, for $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members. They will be available for purchase at the Academy during regular business hours or by mail. The Academy is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. For more information call 310-247-3600.
DID YOU KNOW???
Most dreams last anywhere from five to 20 minutes.
People don’t only dream in black and white, as was once believed.
Even though they may not remember them, everyone dreams several times a night. In fact, during a typical lifetime, we spend about six years dreaming.
People who have been blind from birth have dreams that are formed from their other senses (e.g., touch, smell, sound).
When people are snoring, they’re not dreaming.
Elephants (and some other animals) sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep.
“Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon… we have the stars.” –as Charlotte Vale in NOW, VOYAGER (1942).
A transformed Charlotte Vale in NOW, VOYAGER (1942) also starring Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Gladys Cooper. In addition to nominations in the acting categories for Bette and Gladys Cooper, NOW, VOYAGER’s musical score by Max Steiner won an Academy Award.
Bette’s Oscar nomination for NOW, VOYAGER marked the fifth consecutive year in which she was so honored, a feat equaled only by Greer Garson (1941-1945) in Academy Award history.
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DID YOU KNOW???
Most dreams last anywhere from five to 20 minutes.
People don’t only dream in black and white, as was once believed.
Even though they may not remember them, everyone dreams several times a night. In fact, during a typical lifetime, we spend about six years dreaming.
People who have been blind from birth have dreams that are formed from their other senses (e.g., touch, smell, sound).
When people are snoring, they’re not dreaming.
Elephants (and some other animals) sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep.
