Over a decade after beginning her screen acting career, Jodie Comer made history at the 2019 Primetime Emmys by becoming the all-time youngest recipient of the Best Drama Actress prize as one of the stars of “Killing Eve.” After being left out of the previous year’s lineup, she was rewarded for her work on the spy thriller’s second season, which further explored the obsessive relationship between her character – an international assassin – and the MI6 agent (Sandra Oh) recruited to apprehend her.
At 26, Comer was nearly two years younger than previous record holder Lindsay Wagner (“The Bionic Woman”) was at the time of her victory 42 years earlier. Although 24-year-old Zendaya (“Euphoria”) took the title from her just one year later, she still holds the distinction of being one of the 10 youngest nominees and winners honored here in the seven-decade history of the Emmy awards.
The television academy has recognized the...
At 26, Comer was nearly two years younger than previous record holder Lindsay Wagner (“The Bionic Woman”) was at the time of her victory 42 years earlier. Although 24-year-old Zendaya (“Euphoria”) took the title from her just one year later, she still holds the distinction of being one of the 10 youngest nominees and winners honored here in the seven-decade history of the Emmy awards.
The television academy has recognized the...
- 8/19/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Over a decade after beginning her screen acting career, Jodie Comer made history at the 2019 Primetime Emmys by becoming the all-time youngest recipient of the Best Drama Actress prize as one of the stars of “Killing Eve.” After being left out of the previous year’s lineup, she was rewarded for her work on the spy thriller’s second season, which further explored the obsessive relationship between her character – an international assassin – and the MI6 agent (Sandra Oh) recruited to apprehend her.
At 26, Comer was nearly two years younger than previous record holder Lindsay Wagner (“The Bionic Woman”) was at the time of her victory 42 years earlier. Although 24-year-old Zendaya (“Euphoria”) took the title from her just one year later, she still holds the distinction of being one of the 10 youngest nominees and winners honored here in the seven-decade history of the Emmy awards.
The television academy has recognized the...
At 26, Comer was nearly two years younger than previous record holder Lindsay Wagner (“The Bionic Woman”) was at the time of her victory 42 years earlier. Although 24-year-old Zendaya (“Euphoria”) took the title from her just one year later, she still holds the distinction of being one of the 10 youngest nominees and winners honored here in the seven-decade history of the Emmy awards.
The television academy has recognized the...
- 8/19/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
When Laura Linney accepted the 2013 Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress Emmy for portraying Cathy Jamison on “The Big C: Hereafter,” she joined an elite group of women who have amassed four victories for as many different primetime programs. Cloris Leachman became the first to achieve the feat in 1984, followed by Alfre Woodard in 2003 and Betty White in 2010. Four years after concluding her run as Jamison, which she began when “The Big C” was classified as a comedy series, Linney took on her second regular role as Wendy Byrde on Netflix’s “Ozark.”
Linney’s performance as Byrde brought her three bids for the Best Drama Actress award between 2019 and 2022. During the show’s two-part fourth and final season, her money-laundering character develops into an even more ruthless and calculating high-end criminal whose mental state sometimes wavers when she is reminded of her brother’s murder or her father’s abusive nature.
Linney’s performance as Byrde brought her three bids for the Best Drama Actress award between 2019 and 2022. During the show’s two-part fourth and final season, her money-laundering character develops into an even more ruthless and calculating high-end criminal whose mental state sometimes wavers when she is reminded of her brother’s murder or her father’s abusive nature.
- 8/17/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
When Laura Linney accepted the 2013 Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress Emmy for portraying Cathy Jamison on “The Big C: Hereafter,” she joined an elite group of women who have amassed four victories for as many different primetime programs. Cloris Leachman became the first to achieve the feat in 1984, followed by Alfre Woodard in 2003 and Betty White in 2010. Four years after concluding her run as Jamison, which she began when “The Big C” was classified as a comedy series, Linney took on her second regular role as Wendy Byrde on Netflix’s “Ozark.”
Linney’s performance as Byrde brought her three bids for the Best Drama Actress award between 2019 and 2022. During the show’s two-part fourth and final season, her money-laundering character develops into an even more ruthless and calculating high-end criminal whose mental state sometimes wavers when she is reminded of her brother’s murder or her father’s abusive nature.
Linney’s performance as Byrde brought her three bids for the Best Drama Actress award between 2019 and 2022. During the show’s two-part fourth and final season, her money-laundering character develops into an even more ruthless and calculating high-end criminal whose mental state sometimes wavers when she is reminded of her brother’s murder or her father’s abusive nature.
- 8/17/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Tommy Kirk, the actor known for playing Travis Coates in “Old Yeller” and several other Disney films, was found dead in his Las Vegas home Tuesday. He was 79.
Kirk’s longtime friend Paul Petersen II posted the news on Facebook, writing, “Please know that Tommy Kirk loved you, his fans.”
Kirk was born in Louisville, Ky. in 1941 and grew up in Los Angeles County. He began acting as a teenager, and appeared in a play at the Pasadena Playhouse, where he was discovered by an agent who helped him to make his screen debut in “The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs,” a 1955 episode of “TV Reader’s Digest.” From there, he appeared in episodes of several TV series including “The Loretta Young Show” and “Gunsmoke.” His profile rose when he began to play the role of Joe Hardy in the “Hardy Boys” series “The Mystery of the Applegate...
Kirk’s longtime friend Paul Petersen II posted the news on Facebook, writing, “Please know that Tommy Kirk loved you, his fans.”
Kirk was born in Louisville, Ky. in 1941 and grew up in Los Angeles County. He began acting as a teenager, and appeared in a play at the Pasadena Playhouse, where he was discovered by an agent who helped him to make his screen debut in “The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs,” a 1955 episode of “TV Reader’s Digest.” From there, he appeared in episodes of several TV series including “The Loretta Young Show” and “Gunsmoke.” His profile rose when he began to play the role of Joe Hardy in the “Hardy Boys” series “The Mystery of the Applegate...
- 9/29/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Last Year’s Winner: Zendaya, “Euphoria”
Still Eligible: No.
Hot Streak: There hasn’t been a repeat winner in nearly a decade — since Claire Danes took home back-to-back Emmys for “Homeland” in 2012-13 — and only two networks have won more than once in that same time span: Showtime and BBC America, which saw Tatiana Maslany win for “Orphan Black” in 2016 and Jodie Comer take home the trophy for “Killing Eve” in 2019.
Fun Fact: Apologies, I’m well-aware this is a rather widely known “fun fact,” but it’s still absolutely wild to think about the run “Cagney & Lacey” went on in the ’80s. The CBS cop drama won this category for six years in a row, between 1983 – 1988, taking home the Best Drama Actress trophy every season after its freshman run. Not only that, but both titular actors — Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless — were nominated each year. Daly won for...
Still Eligible: No.
Hot Streak: There hasn’t been a repeat winner in nearly a decade — since Claire Danes took home back-to-back Emmys for “Homeland” in 2012-13 — and only two networks have won more than once in that same time span: Showtime and BBC America, which saw Tatiana Maslany win for “Orphan Black” in 2016 and Jodie Comer take home the trophy for “Killing Eve” in 2019.
Fun Fact: Apologies, I’m well-aware this is a rather widely known “fun fact,” but it’s still absolutely wild to think about the run “Cagney & Lacey” went on in the ’80s. The CBS cop drama won this category for six years in a row, between 1983 – 1988, taking home the Best Drama Actress trophy every season after its freshman run. Not only that, but both titular actors — Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless — were nominated each year. Daly won for...
- 9/7/2021
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
In 2017, freshman series “The Handmaid’s Tale” stormed the Primetime Emmys by taking eight prizes, including Best Drama Series. Castmates Alexis Bledel, Ann Dowd, and Elisabeth Moss all bagged trophies, marking the first instance of a series conquering all three female drama acting categories in a single year. Moss was the first Best Drama Actress champion to win for her show’s inaugural season since Claire Danes (“Homeland”) did so five years earlier.
Moss was honored for her work in the first season finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in which her character, a slave in a dystopian imagining of America, begins to stand up against her oppressors in the wake of receiving life-changing news. At 35, she became one of the youngest victors in the history of her category. Indeed, the last five consecutive winners constitute half of the 10 most youthful ones here, with Moss currently filling the final slot after first entering at seventh place.
Moss was honored for her work in the first season finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in which her character, a slave in a dystopian imagining of America, begins to stand up against her oppressors in the wake of receiving life-changing news. At 35, she became one of the youngest victors in the history of her category. Indeed, the last five consecutive winners constitute half of the 10 most youthful ones here, with Moss currently filling the final slot after first entering at seventh place.
- 8/27/2021
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Prior to joining the ranks of other prolific TV moguls, David E. Kelley got his start by writing for NBC’s “L.A. Law” and then co-creating “Doogie Howser, M.D.” for ABC. While both shows were still running, Kelley’s first solo creation, “Picket Fences,” was picked up by CBS and premiered in the fall of 1992. Despite never being a ratings success, the series ran for four seasons and won the Emmy for Best Drama Series twice. It also nabbed at least two acting awards per year, amounting to a total of 10.
Three of the acting trophies went to leading lady Kathy Baker, who played small town doctor and mother of three Jill Brock. Her third victory came for the final season episode “Bottled,” in which her character’s mid-life crisis comes to a head during her youngest son’s 13th birthday party. This further solidified the 46-year-old actress’ position...
Three of the acting trophies went to leading lady Kathy Baker, who played small town doctor and mother of three Jill Brock. Her third victory came for the final season episode “Bottled,” in which her character’s mid-life crisis comes to a head during her youngest son’s 13th birthday party. This further solidified the 46-year-old actress’ position...
- 8/27/2021
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
“Ted Lasso,” “The Mandalorian,” “Hacks,” “The Flight Attendant,” “The Crown” and “The Queen’s Gambit” are among the top nominees for the 73rd annual Primetime Awards, which are set for Sept.19 on CBS with Cedric the Entertainer, who stars on the network’s sitcom “The Neighborhood,” set to host. But this is now, but what about the Emmys 60 years ago.
Dick Powell hosted the 13th Emmy Awards which took place at the famed Moulin Rouge Nightclub in Los Angeles on May 16, 1961. There were just three broadcast networks as well as local channels and National Education Television, now known as PBS.
History was made when The Flintstones” became the first animated series to be nominated in a main category: program achievement in the field of humor. It would be nearly 50 years before another animated series, “The Family Guy,” contended for a top award.
Veterans such as Jack Benny and Red Skelton were among the winners,...
Dick Powell hosted the 13th Emmy Awards which took place at the famed Moulin Rouge Nightclub in Los Angeles on May 16, 1961. There were just three broadcast networks as well as local channels and National Education Television, now known as PBS.
History was made when The Flintstones” became the first animated series to be nominated in a main category: program achievement in the field of humor. It would be nearly 50 years before another animated series, “The Family Guy,” contended for a top award.
Veterans such as Jack Benny and Red Skelton were among the winners,...
- 7/15/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
“The Crown” is on track to become the first show since “Cagney & Lacey” in 1985 to win its first Best Drama Series Emmy for its fourth season, but that is not the only Emmy history it could share with the procedural. If Emma Corrin takes Best Drama Actress as widely expected, “The Crown” will join “Cagney & Lacey” as the only shows to win the category for multiple actresses.
“Cagney & Lacey” dominated drama actress in the ’80s and holds the category record with six wins. Tyne Daly won four of them from 1983-85 and in 1988, while her screen partner Sharon Gless bested her in 1986 and ’87. “The Crown” notched its first victory here in 2018 when Claire Foy won for her second and final season on “The Crown” as Queen Elizabeth II.
The Best Drama Actress category as we know it was standardized in 1966, but prior to that, the Emmys awarded lead performances regardless of genre,...
“Cagney & Lacey” dominated drama actress in the ’80s and holds the category record with six wins. Tyne Daly won four of them from 1983-85 and in 1988, while her screen partner Sharon Gless bested her in 1986 and ’87. “The Crown” notched its first victory here in 2018 when Claire Foy won for her second and final season on “The Crown” as Queen Elizabeth II.
The Best Drama Actress category as we know it was standardized in 1966, but prior to that, the Emmys awarded lead performances regardless of genre,...
- 7/7/2021
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Ken Osmond, best known for his role at the troublemaker Eddie Haskell on the television comedy “Leave It to Beaver,” died on Monday morning. He was 76.
Sources tell Variety Osmond passed away at his Los Angeles home surrounded by family members.
The cause of death is unknown.
Osmond, a native of Glendale, Ca., began his career as a child actor with his first speaking part at age 9 in the film “So Big,” starring Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden, followed by “Good Morning Miss Dove,” and “Everything But the Truth. He also guest-starred on television series, including “Lassie,” “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,” “Wagon Train,” “Fury,” and “The Loretta Young Show.”
In 1957, Osmond auditioned for the the Eddie Haskell role, which was originally intended to be a guest appearance, but those involved with the show were so impressed with Osmond’s portrayal that the character was a key component of...
Sources tell Variety Osmond passed away at his Los Angeles home surrounded by family members.
The cause of death is unknown.
Osmond, a native of Glendale, Ca., began his career as a child actor with his first speaking part at age 9 in the film “So Big,” starring Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden, followed by “Good Morning Miss Dove,” and “Everything But the Truth. He also guest-starred on television series, including “Lassie,” “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,” “Wagon Train,” “Fury,” and “The Loretta Young Show.”
In 1957, Osmond auditioned for the the Eddie Haskell role, which was originally intended to be a guest appearance, but those involved with the show were so impressed with Osmond’s portrayal that the character was a key component of...
- 5/18/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Sue Lyon, who was cast in Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita” at the age of 14, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 73.
Lyon’s longtime friend Phil Syracopoulos told the New York Times she had been experiencing poor health for some time.
Lyon’s acting career lasted from 1959 to 1980, with her most significant role as the title character in the 1962 Kubrick film based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel about a middle-aged man who becomes sexually obsessed with a young girl. Lyon earned the part over 800 girls that auditioned; Nabokov described her as “the perfect nymphet.”
While Nabokov’s 1955 novel was seen as scandalous, the film was less so due in part to the restrictive Motion Picture Production Code.
Lyon was born in Davenport, Iowa. Her mother moved the family to Dallas before relocating them to Los Angeles, where Lyon was able to pursue acting. She landed the role of Laurie in...
Lyon’s longtime friend Phil Syracopoulos told the New York Times she had been experiencing poor health for some time.
Lyon’s acting career lasted from 1959 to 1980, with her most significant role as the title character in the 1962 Kubrick film based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel about a middle-aged man who becomes sexually obsessed with a young girl. Lyon earned the part over 800 girls that auditioned; Nabokov described her as “the perfect nymphet.”
While Nabokov’s 1955 novel was seen as scandalous, the film was less so due in part to the restrictive Motion Picture Production Code.
Lyon was born in Davenport, Iowa. Her mother moved the family to Dallas before relocating them to Los Angeles, where Lyon was able to pursue acting. She landed the role of Laurie in...
- 12/28/2019
- by Lorraine Wheat
- Variety Film + TV
Sue Lyon, the actress who at age 14 starred as the title character in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of “Lolita,” died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 73.
Lyon had been in failing health for some time, her friend Phil Syracopoulos told The New York Times.
Born Suellyn Lyon in 1946 in Iowa, Lyon’s family moved to Los Angeles when she was a small child. As a teenager, she began acting in small television roles, including an appearance on “The Loretta Young Show” that brought her to Kubrick’s attention. She was subsequently cast in “Lolita” at 14 in part because the filmmakers aged the character up from 12, as in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. Upon release, Lyon was catapulted to stardom, and she won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer — Female for her performance, which had her acting alongside James Mason, Shelley Winters, and Peter Sellers, some of the era’s biggest stars.
Lyon had been in failing health for some time, her friend Phil Syracopoulos told The New York Times.
Born Suellyn Lyon in 1946 in Iowa, Lyon’s family moved to Los Angeles when she was a small child. As a teenager, she began acting in small television roles, including an appearance on “The Loretta Young Show” that brought her to Kubrick’s attention. She was subsequently cast in “Lolita” at 14 in part because the filmmakers aged the character up from 12, as in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. Upon release, Lyon was catapulted to stardom, and she won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer — Female for her performance, which had her acting alongside James Mason, Shelley Winters, and Peter Sellers, some of the era’s biggest stars.
- 12/28/2019
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Throughout the history of the Emmy Awards, only seven performers have earned six or more nominations in the Best Drama Actress category for the same show, with Mariska Hargitay (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) being the last to do so exactly 10 years ago. At least, until Robin Wright (“House of Cards”) this year.
Last month Wright received her sixth and final Emmy bid for playing First Lady-turned-President Claire Underwood on Netflix’s political thriller. She was previously nominated from 2013 to 2017, missing out last year because the show didn’t air due to all of the behind-the-scenes drama with co-star Kevin Spacey.
SEERobin Wright (‘House of Cards’) 2019 Emmy Awards episode revealed for Best Drama Actress (Exclusive)
Hargitay would go on to earn a total of eight consecutive Emmy citations (2004-11), winning on her third try. Only one other person received more Best Drama Actress nominations than Hargitay throughout her show’s run: Angela Lansbury.
Last month Wright received her sixth and final Emmy bid for playing First Lady-turned-President Claire Underwood on Netflix’s political thriller. She was previously nominated from 2013 to 2017, missing out last year because the show didn’t air due to all of the behind-the-scenes drama with co-star Kevin Spacey.
SEERobin Wright (‘House of Cards’) 2019 Emmy Awards episode revealed for Best Drama Actress (Exclusive)
Hargitay would go on to earn a total of eight consecutive Emmy citations (2004-11), winning on her third try. Only one other person received more Best Drama Actress nominations than Hargitay throughout her show’s run: Angela Lansbury.
- 8/26/2019
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Robin Wright (“House of Cards”) just received her sixth and final Best Drama Actress Emmy nomination for playing First Lady-turned-President Claire Underwood on Netflix’s political thriller. That number puts her in good company indeed, as only seven actresses have earned six or more bids in this category for the same show, the last being Mariska Hargitay (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) exactly 10 years ago. Hargitay would go to earn eight consecutive noms (2004-11), winning on her third bid.
Only one other person earned more Best Drama Actress nominations than Hargitay throughout her show’s run: Angela Lansbury, who received a record 12 for “Murder, She Wrote” (1985-96). Of course, Lansbury infamously never won an Emmy Award, making her one of the industry’s biggest also-rans. Even though Wright lost her first five nominations (2013-17), she won’t come anywhere near Lansbury’s record as “House of Cards” ended last year.
Only one other person earned more Best Drama Actress nominations than Hargitay throughout her show’s run: Angela Lansbury, who received a record 12 for “Murder, She Wrote” (1985-96). Of course, Lansbury infamously never won an Emmy Award, making her one of the industry’s biggest also-rans. Even though Wright lost her first five nominations (2013-17), she won’t come anywhere near Lansbury’s record as “House of Cards” ended last year.
- 7/17/2019
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Eugene Francis, an actor, writer and longtime SAG Foundation board member who broke into show business in 1940 as one of the East Side Kids, has died. He was 100.
Francis played Algernon “Algy” Wilkes alongside Leo Gorcey and Bobby Jordan in the 1940 films Boys of the City, That Gang of Mine and Pride of the Bowery and 1941’s Flying Wild. He later guested on a few TV shows and wrote for series including Justice, Appointment with Adventure, The Loretta Young Show, The George Sanders Mystery Theater and Matinee Theatre.
A former SAG vice president and recording secretary, Francis also was a founding board member of the SAG Foundation, on which he served for 33 years.
“It was a privilege to know someone who had lived life so fully long before I met him and to work with him over these many years as he continued supporting his fellow performers,” said SAG-AFTRA...
Francis played Algernon “Algy” Wilkes alongside Leo Gorcey and Bobby Jordan in the 1940 films Boys of the City, That Gang of Mine and Pride of the Bowery and 1941’s Flying Wild. He later guested on a few TV shows and wrote for series including Justice, Appointment with Adventure, The Loretta Young Show, The George Sanders Mystery Theater and Matinee Theatre.
A former SAG vice president and recording secretary, Francis also was a founding board member of the SAG Foundation, on which he served for 33 years.
“It was a privilege to know someone who had lived life so fully long before I met him and to work with him over these many years as he continued supporting his fellow performers,” said SAG-AFTRA...
- 4/13/2018
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Eugene Francis, who played Algernon "Algy" Wilkes, one of the hooligans known as the "East Side Kids," in four 1940s films and was a founding board member of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, has died. He was 100.
Francis died Tuesday in Westwood, New Jersey, SAG-aftra Foundation spokeswoman Caroline O'Connor announced.
Francis also wrote for several TV series, including Justice, Appointment With Adventure, Matinee Theatre and The George Sanders Mystery Theater in the 1950s, The Loretta Young Show in the '60s and the animated show Calliope in the '80s.
Then 23, Francis was cast at the last minute as Algy,...
Francis died Tuesday in Westwood, New Jersey, SAG-aftra Foundation spokeswoman Caroline O'Connor announced.
Francis also wrote for several TV series, including Justice, Appointment With Adventure, Matinee Theatre and The George Sanders Mystery Theater in the 1950s, The Loretta Young Show in the '60s and the animated show Calliope in the '80s.
Then 23, Francis was cast at the last minute as Algy,...
- 4/13/2018
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There was a time when actress Lois Smith fuzzed her age. Not out of vanity. After all, when the top of her dark hair turned shocking white, she kept it. "Nature just decided to gray me that way," says Smith. "I really liked the way it happened." Until then, the problem was she looked younger than her driver's license. At 22, Smith made her Broadway debut playing a 16-year-old drama queen. A few years later, while working out a skit on The Loretta Young Show, the director…...
- 11/15/2017
- Deadline
A version of this article originally appeared on EW.com.
Actor Peter Hansen, known for his role as lawyer and addiction counselor Lee Baldwin on General Hospital, has died at the age of 95.
Hansen died Sunday in Santa Clarita, California, the General Hospital twitter account confirmed Tuesday.
Though he made over 100 film and television appearances, Hansen was best known for his role as the stalwart Lee Baldwin on General Hospital and its spin-off Port Charles. He appeared on the weekday soap opera from 1965 through 2004, making his last appearance at Lila’s (Anna Lee) funeral in 2004 and retiring from the screen thereafter.
Actor Peter Hansen, known for his role as lawyer and addiction counselor Lee Baldwin on General Hospital, has died at the age of 95.
Hansen died Sunday in Santa Clarita, California, the General Hospital twitter account confirmed Tuesday.
Though he made over 100 film and television appearances, Hansen was best known for his role as the stalwart Lee Baldwin on General Hospital and its spin-off Port Charles. He appeared on the weekday soap opera from 1965 through 2004, making his last appearance at Lila’s (Anna Lee) funeral in 2004 and retiring from the screen thereafter.
- 4/11/2017
- by EW Staff
- PEOPLE.com
Teresa Wright and Matt Damon in 'The Rainmaker' Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright vs. Samuel Goldwyn: Nasty Falling Out.") "I'd rather have luck than brains!" Teresa Wright was quoted as saying in the early 1950s. That's understandable, considering her post-Samuel Goldwyn choice of movie roles, some of which may have seemed promising on paper.[1] Wright was Marlon Brando's first Hollywood leading lady, but that didn't help her to bounce back following the very public spat with her former boss. After all, The Men was released before Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire turned Brando into a major international star. Chances are that good film offers were scarce. After Wright's brief 1950 comeback, for the third time in less than a decade she would be gone from the big screen for more than a year.
- 3/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Loretta Young films as TCM celebrates her 102nd birthday (photo: Loretta Young ca. 1935) Loretta Young would have turned 102 years old today. Turner Classic Movies is celebrating the birthday of the Salt Lake City-born, Academy Award-winning actress today, January 6, 2015, with no less than ten Loretta Young films, most of them released by Warner Bros. in the early '30s. Young, who began her film career in a bit part in the 1927 Colleen Moore star vehicle Her Wild Oat, remained a Warners contract player from the late '20s up until 1933. (See also: "Loretta Young Movies.") Now, ten Loretta Young films on one day may sound like a lot, but one should remember that most Warner Bros. -- in fact, most Hollywood -- releases of the late '20s and early '30s were either B Movies or programmers. The latter were relatively short (usually 60 to 75 minutes) feature films starring A (or B+) performers,...
- 1/6/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Femme fatale Audrey Totter: Film noir actress and MGM leading lady dead at 95 (photo: Audrey Totter ca. 1947) Audrey Totter, film noir femme fatale and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player best remembered for the mystery crime drama Lady in the Lake and, at Rko, the hard-hitting boxing drama The Set-Up, died after suffering a stroke and congestive heart failure on Thursday, December 12, 2013, at West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles County. Reportedly a resident at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, Audrey Totter would have turned 96 on Dec. 20. Born in Joliet, Illinois, Audrey Totter began her show business career on radio. She landed an MGM contract in the mid-’40s, playing bit roles in several of the studio’s productions, e.g., the Clark Gable-Greer Garson pairing Adventure (1945), the Hedy Lamarr-Robert Walker-June Allyson threesome Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945), and, as an adventurous hitchhiker riding with John Garfield,...
- 12/15/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
"Gypsy." "A Little Night Music." "Sweeney Todd." "Follies." "Company."
Stephen Sondheim's credits -- and that's a sampling -- are staggering. He's won eight Tony Awards, more than any other composer and lyricist. And though he has been an incredible force since he burst on the scene with his first Broadway project, "West Side Story," Sondheim, 83, is reserved about himself.
HBO's "Six by Sondheim" on Monday, Dec. 9, though, manages to paint an intimate portrait of the man, examining his career through six signature songs.
In one of very few interviews granted for this project, Sondheim tells Zap2it that though he had seen a few edits of this film, he doesn't like to watch himself.
"I am embarrassed to see myself," Sondheim says. "I have seen myself on-screen quite a lot."
This features wonderful footage of Sondheim, including photos from his youth, being mentored by family friend Oscar Hammerstein, and...
Stephen Sondheim's credits -- and that's a sampling -- are staggering. He's won eight Tony Awards, more than any other composer and lyricist. And though he has been an incredible force since he burst on the scene with his first Broadway project, "West Side Story," Sondheim, 83, is reserved about himself.
HBO's "Six by Sondheim" on Monday, Dec. 9, though, manages to paint an intimate portrait of the man, examining his career through six signature songs.
In one of very few interviews granted for this project, Sondheim tells Zap2it that though he had seen a few edits of this film, he doesn't like to watch himself.
"I am embarrassed to see myself," Sondheim says. "I have seen myself on-screen quite a lot."
This features wonderful footage of Sondheim, including photos from his youth, being mentored by family friend Oscar Hammerstein, and...
- 12/9/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Happy Centennial to Loretta Young! (January 6th, 1913 - August 12th, 2000) She was my mom's favorite actress as a little girl which is how I know her name.
So many ruffles! How can Loretta breathe in there?
Well that and my encyclopedic attention to the Best Actress category in theory long before I'd seen almost any of the movies as a kid. The Farmer's Daughter was literally the first of the 1940s Best Actress winners I ever saw -- entirely because of my mom's love for it -- but I have to admit that I don't remember the movie at all now. (Fwiw my favorite Best Actress win of the 40s is a tight race between Crawford's Mildred Pierce and DeHavilland's The Heiress)
We name-checked Loretta very briefly on the recent podcast (Part 1 & 2) because my mom was so happy with the book I gave her as a gift recently. My mother...
So many ruffles! How can Loretta breathe in there?
Well that and my encyclopedic attention to the Best Actress category in theory long before I'd seen almost any of the movies as a kid. The Farmer's Daughter was literally the first of the 1940s Best Actress winners I ever saw -- entirely because of my mom's love for it -- but I have to admit that I don't remember the movie at all now. (Fwiw my favorite Best Actress win of the 40s is a tight race between Crawford's Mildred Pierce and DeHavilland's The Heiress)
We name-checked Loretta very briefly on the recent podcast (Part 1 & 2) because my mom was so happy with the book I gave her as a gift recently. My mother...
- 1/6/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Actress Doris Singleton, best known for playing Lucy and Ricky Ricardo’s neighbor Carolyn Appleby on the iconic 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy," has died, reports People magazine. She was 92.
Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed Singleton's death in a statement on her Facebook page, People says, noting its timing with the death of flimmaker Nora Ephron earlier this week.
Singleton appeared in 10 episodes of the 1951 to 1957 sitcom after meeting the show's star, Lucille Ball, before a performance of "My Favorite Husband," the radio show that preceded "I Love Lucy," The Hollywood Reporter notes. Ball invited Singleton to join the show a few years after they met, casting her as the wife of a radio station owner played by Hy Averback.
Trained as a vocalist and ballet dancer, Brooklyn-born Dorothea Singleton performed with the American Ballet Theater and the Art Jarrett's orchestra in the late 1930s,...
Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed Singleton's death in a statement on her Facebook page, People says, noting its timing with the death of flimmaker Nora Ephron earlier this week.
Singleton appeared in 10 episodes of the 1951 to 1957 sitcom after meeting the show's star, Lucille Ball, before a performance of "My Favorite Husband," the radio show that preceded "I Love Lucy," The Hollywood Reporter notes. Ball invited Singleton to join the show a few years after they met, casting her as the wife of a radio station owner played by Hy Averback.
Trained as a vocalist and ballet dancer, Brooklyn-born Dorothea Singleton performed with the American Ballet Theater and the Art Jarrett's orchestra in the late 1930s,...
- 6/28/2012
- by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson
- Huffington Post
Actress Doris Singleton, best known for playing Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's neighbor Carolyn Appleby on the iconic 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy," has died, reports People magazine. She was 92.
Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed Singleton's death in a statement on her Facebook page, People says, noting its timing with the death of flimmaker Nora Ephron earlier this week.
Singleton appeared in 10 episodes of the 1951 to 1957 sitcom after meeting the show's star, Lucille Ball, before a performance of "My Favorite Husband," the radio show that preceded "I Love Lucy," The Hollywood Reporter notes. Ball invited Singleton to join the show a few years after they met, casting her as the wife of a radio station owner played by Hy Averback.
Trained as a vocalist and ballet dancer, Brooklyn-born Dorothea Singleton performed with the American Ballet Theater and the Art Jarrett's orchestra in the late 1930s,...
Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed Singleton's death in a statement on her Facebook page, People says, noting its timing with the death of flimmaker Nora Ephron earlier this week.
Singleton appeared in 10 episodes of the 1951 to 1957 sitcom after meeting the show's star, Lucille Ball, before a performance of "My Favorite Husband," the radio show that preceded "I Love Lucy," The Hollywood Reporter notes. Ball invited Singleton to join the show a few years after they met, casting her as the wife of a radio station owner played by Hy Averback.
Trained as a vocalist and ballet dancer, Brooklyn-born Dorothea Singleton performed with the American Ballet Theater and the Art Jarrett's orchestra in the late 1930s,...
- 6/28/2012
- by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson
- Aol TV.
Television writer Stephen Lord has died. The Writers Guild announced today that Lord died May 5 in his home in Sherman Oaks, CA surrounded by his family. The writer, whose real name was Stephen Loyacano, was 85. In a career that went from the 1950’s to the early 1990’s, Lord worked on a wide variety of shows. His credits include CHiPs, Fantasy Island, Bonanza, Kung Fu, The Loretta Young Show, The Dick Powell Show, Matlock, Death Valley Days, Johnny Ringo, Zane Grey Theatre, Ironside, the original Outer Limits and T.J. Hooker. Lord also wrote several features including an adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe short story classic The Fall of the House of Usher.
- 5/11/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Sol Leon, a longtime WMA agent who packaged some of television's biggest hits of the 1950s and '60s and was known for his long tenure with such clients as Dick Van Dyke and Merv Griffin, died of heart failure Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 90. During a career with the agency that began in the late 1940s, Leon was a key behind-the-scenes player in the growth of the filmed TV series business in Hollywood. He negotiated the precedent-setting deal that brought Loretta Young to NBC in 1953 as host of The Loretta Young Show dramatic anthology series, one of the first deals that brought a major movie star to the small screen for regular series work.
- 12/9/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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