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John Gavin made two films with German-born director Douglas Sirk in the late Fifties – A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) and Imitation of Life (1959) – that greatly raised his profile. Gavin won […]
Lana Turner stars in one of her most famous roles as struggling young white actress Lora Meredith and Juanita Moore plays her black maid Annie Johnson. Director Douglas Sirk’s classic 1959 tearjerker melodrama is a […]
The polished 1960 Hitchcock-style thriller film Midnight Lace stars Doris Day, exquisitely gowned by Irene, who was Oscar nominated for Best Color Costume Design. Day plays a terrified married American heiress, threatened by an anonymous […]
Director Bryan Forbes’s civilised 1969 satirical comedy drama turns Jean Giraudoux’s celebrated play La Folle de Chaillot into an offbeat vehicle for Katharine Hepburn, who plays an eccentric and idealistic French countess trying to stop the plan of corrupt powerful […]
‘I am Spartacus.’ Kirk Douglas is on his finest heroic form in the role he’ll always be remembered for as the fighter Spartacus who leads the slaves in a foolhardy attempt at revolt against the […]
‘Do you have any vacancies?’ ‘Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies.’ Alfred Hitchcock’s once dreaded and despised nail-biting 1960 horror classic Psycho had people boycotting it in fear at the cinema and […]
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