'Being Julia' movie: Annette Bening and Shaun Evans 'Being Julia' movie review: Annette Bening showcase tells us a little about Avice A little Being Julia movie background: In Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1950 Oscar-winning classic All About Eve, Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, a major Broadway star who, despite her talent, wit, and some forty-odd years on this planet, falls prey to the youthful, ambitious wannabe Eve Harrington: sweet, soft-spoken Anne Baxter on the outside; ruthless, poisonous gargoyle on the inside.* More than a decade earlier, in 1937 to be exact, W. Somerset Maugham had written Theatre, a novel about West End diva Julia Lambert. In Maugham's tale, Julia, despite her talent, wit, and some forty-odd years on this planet, succumbs to her vanity when she falls madly in love with Tom Fennel, a handsome – and deceptively innocent-looking – American half her age. Through Tom's "special friendship" with the renowned Julia, an ambitious young actress,...
- 5/10/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Lizabeth Scott dead at 92: Film noir star of the '40s and '50s Lizabeth Scott, a Paramount star in the 1940s usually cast as film noir heroines, died of congestive heart failure on Jan. 31, 2015, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Scott, born (as Emma Matzo) on Sept. 29, 1922, was 92. (See also: Lizabeth Scott photo at recent The Strange Love of Martha Ivers screening.) Among the two dozen film featuring Lizabeth Scott – whose hair-style and husky line delivery were clearly inspired by Paramount's own Veronica Lake (along with Warner Bros.' Lauren Bacall) – were the following: John Farrow's You Came Along (1945), with Robert Cummings. Lewis Milestone's The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), with Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, and Kirk Douglas. Desert Fury (1947), with Burt Lancaster. Dead Reckoning (1947), with Humphrey Bogart. Pitfall (1948), with Dick Powell. Dark City (1950), with Charlton Heston. The Racket (1951), with Robert Ryan and Robert Mitchum.
- 2/7/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Robin Swicord, Lizabeth Scott, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers screening Veteran actress Lizabeth Scott and screenwriter Robin Swicord (Little Women, Memoirs of a Geisha) attended a screening of Lewis Milestone's 1946 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers back in June 2010. (Click on the image to enlarge it.) Scott, who'll turn 89 next September 29, was a Paramount star in the second half of the 1940s. In addition to Martha Ivers, her credits include the melodramas You Came Along (1945), Desert Fury (1947), Easy Living (1949), and Paid in Full (1950); the film noirs Dead Reckoning (1947), I Walk Alone (1948), and Dark City (1950); the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis comedy Scared Stiff (1953); and the early Elvis Presley vehicle Loving You (1957). In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Scott played opposite Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, and Kirk Douglas. This mix of crime thriller and psychological melodrama was shown as part of the "Oscar Noir" series at the Academy...
- 9/7/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Lizabeth Scott (You Came Along, Dead Reckoning, Easy Living) in front of a giant poster of Lewis Milestone‘s 1946 film noir/psychological melodrama The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, in which Scott, then a Paramount contract player, starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, and Kirk Douglas. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, introduced by screenwriter Robin Swicord (Little Women, Memoirs of a Geisha), was presented as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ "Oscar Noir" series at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Monday, June 28, 2010. Among Scott’s most important vehicles are You Came Along (1945), with Robert Cummings; Desert Fury (1947), with Burt Lancaster; Pitfall (1948), with Dick Powell; and The Racket (1951), with Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan. Off-screen, Scott created a sensation of sorts in 1955 when she sued gossip rag Confidential for claiming that the never-married actress spent her free time in the [...]...
- 6/29/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Lizabeth Scott poses for the camera in front of various photographs of her 1946 vehicle The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, in which she co-starred with Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, and Kirk Douglas. Directed by Lewis Milestone (Best Director Oscar winner for All Quiet on the Western Front), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers was screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ "Oscar Noir" series at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Monday, June 28, 2010. Scott, born Emma Matzo (Sept. 29, 1922, in Scranton, Penn.) to Slovakian parents, began her film career as a Paramount contract player in 1945. Her film debut — in a leading role — was in John Farrow‘s romantic melodrama You Came Along, in which she was Robert Cummings‘ love interest, a super-sultry gal named Ivy Hotchkiss. Among Scott’s other vehicles — usually film noirs and/or heavy melodramas in which [...]...
- 6/29/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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