Never-Before-Seen Footage of Marilyn Monroe Uncovered
(Jan 13, 2017 | Variety)
The scene from "Seven Year Itch" in which Marilyn Monroe's white cocktail dress gets buffeted up to her waist is one of the most iconic in film history, but now, thanks to some old home-shot footage of the scene being filmed, you can see the moment and the events surrounding it in a different light.On Sept. 15, 1954, director Billy Wilder and Monroe were scheduled to shoot the scene...read more
These Movies and TV Shows Are Turning 50 This Year
(Jan 11, 2017 | Parade)
Can you believe The Graduate, The Carol Burnett Show and Disney's The Jungle Book were each released half a century ago? They're just a few of the beloved films and TV shows that debuted in 1967. Launch the gallery to see which other classics are turning 50 this year!...read more
New Details: The Private Side of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds' Unbreakable Bond
(Jan 4, 2017 | People.com)
Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Star Wars icon Carrie Fisher, had an indelible bond in life-and in death.Living together as next-door neighbors in Beverly Hills, the women were a constant presence in each other's daily lives. "At the one end of the family compound lived Debbie Reynolds, star of Singin' in the Rain, with Dorothy's red slippers from The Wizard...read more
Jeffrey Hayden, TV Director and Husband of Eva Marie Saint, Dies at 90
(Jan 3, 2017 | Hollywood Reporter)
He helmed episodes of such series as 'The Andy Griffith Show,' 'Peyton Place, 'The Donna Reed Show and '77 Sunset Strip.'Jeffrey Hayden, a director, producer and writer for television, film and the theater and the husband of Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, has died. He was 90.Hayden died on Christmas Eve at his home in Los Angeles after a year of cancer treatment, publicist Jeff Sanderson announced.He...read more
Inside Debbie Reynolds' Childhood Home: Then And Now
(Jan 3, 2017 | Forbes)
Before Singin' in the Rain and silver-screen stardom, Debbie Reynolds lived in a modest home with her parents and older brother in Burbank, California. It was in that very town's pageant, at age 16, where Warner Brothers talent scouts first discovered the budding singer and actress.Reynolds recently died at the age of 84, just a day after her daughter and beloved Star Wars actress Carrie...read more
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds: family pays tribute ahead of funeral
(Jan 3, 2017 | Guardian)
The family of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, the mother-daughter acting stars who died on consecutive days last week, have paid tribute to their relatives.Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourd, posted a photo of herself with her mother and grandmother on Instagram. It is the first time the actor, 24, has spoken publicly since confirming Fisher's death, aged 60, on 27 December through...read more
Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds: 7 must-see moments from Bright Lights
(Jan 3, 2017 | Entertainment Weekly)
Fans of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher will see a moving glimpse of their unique mother-daughter relationship in the new HBO documentary Bright Lights - a heartbreaking, funny portrayal of a fierce, familial love that weathered the darkest of storms. Addiction, adultery, fame, despair - Bright Lights has it all, because, of course, so did Reynolds and Fisher.The film, which...read more
Tyrus Wong Dies: Artist Known For Inspiring Disney's 'Bambi' Was 106
(Dec 31, 2016 | deadline.com)
Tyrus Wong, the artist whose spec drawings of a deer in the forest famously became the inspiration for the look of Disney's Bambi, has died. He was 106. The family confirmed the news on Facebook.According to the Disney Family Museum blog, Wong was born in China in 1910 and emigrated to the U.S. with his father in 1919, landing at the Angel Island detention center in San Francisco. He received...read more
Debbie Reynolds Rushed to Hospital for Medical Emergency
(Dec 28, 2016 | Hollywood Reporter)
Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicDebbie Reynolds and Carrie FisherHer daughter, beloved actress Carrie Fisher, died Tuesday.Debbie Reynolds has been rushed to the hospital for a medical emergency. Her exact condition is unclear.The Hollywood Reporter was able to confirm through the Los Angeles fire department that an "adult female" in "fair to serious condition" was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical...read more
Debbie Reynolds, 'Singin' in the Rain' Star and Carrie Fisher's Mother, Dies at 84
(Dec 28, 2016 | Variety)
DECEMBER 28, 2016 | 05:40PM PTDebbie Reynolds, the Oscar-nominated singer-actress who was the mother of late actress Carrie Fisher, has died at Cedars-Sinai hospital. She was 84."She wanted to be with Carrie," her son Todd Fisher told Variety.She was taken to the hospital from Todd Fisher's Beverly Hills house Wednesday after a suspected stroke, the day after her daughter...read more
Debbie Reynolds, Mother of Carrie Fisher and Star of 'Singin' in the Rain,' Dies at 84
(Dec 28, 2016 | Hollywood Reporter)
5:43 PM PST 12/28/2016 by Mike BarnesThe actress received an Oscar nom for 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' and lost her husband to Elizabeth Taylor. Her daughter Fisher died just one day earlier.Debbie Reynolds, the vivacious actress, dancer and pop star who wowed 'em in the musicals Singin' in the Rain and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, died Wednesday, one day after her daughter,...read more
Carrie Fisher, Actress, Author and 'Star Wars' Rebel Princess, Dies at 60
(Dec 27, 2016 | Hollywood Reporter)
9:55 AM PST 12/27/2016 by Gregg Kilday , Ryan ParkerThe daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, she carved out her own idiosyncratic career as a truth-telling Hollywood wit.Carrie Fisher, the actress and writer best known for her iconic role as Star Wars' Princess Leia, died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack four days earlier while onboard a flight from...read more
Screen gods, guilt and glamour: actor Claire Bloom on her life in the limelight
(Dec 23, 2016 | Guardian)
'Terror! Vice! Violence!" howls the poster for Claire Bloom's 1953 film The Man Between, co-starring James Mason as Ivo Kern, shadowy smuggler of secrets and people in postwar Berlin. In the poster, he is putting the moves on Bloom, whom the artist has depicted reclining in rumpled sheets, hair down, thighs bared."It is fairly misleading!" says Bloom when I show her the poster she's never seen...read more
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Often-Married Actress Known for Glamour, Dies
(Dec 18, 2016 | New York Times)
By ROBERT D. McFADDENDEC. 18, 2016Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress whose self-parodying glamour and revolving-door marriages to millionaires put a luster of American celebrity on a long but only modestly successful career in movies and television, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. She was probably 99.The cause was heart failure, her longtime publicist Edward Lozzi said.Married at least eight...read more
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress Famous for Her Glamour (and Her Marriages), Dies at 99
(Dec 18, 2016 | New York Times)
Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress whose self-parodying glamour and revolving-door marriages to millionaires put a luster of American celebrity on a long but only modestly successful career in movies and television, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 99.The cause was heart failure, her longtime publicist Edward Lozzi said.Married at least eight times, calling everyone "Dahlink," flaunting a...read more