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The award-winning daughter of agent Paul Kohner and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar, Susan Kohner delivered well-received performances in a handful of films in the 1950s and early 60s before retiring from acting after her.... The award-winning daughter of agent Paul Kohner and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar, Susan Kohner delivered well-received ...

OWLS HEAD : The Claudette Colbert Collection . Yes, these six films all were made before even I was born, but they offer plenty of delightful humor, without the crudeness of today's comedies.

A former Cotton Club chorus girl. Los Angeles native Juanita Moore began her career as a film extra, later honing her craft in local stage productions at the Ebony Showcase, Theater.

The academic journal Project Muse, published in collaboration with John Hopkins Univ Press, has devoted its fall issue to New Orleans.

I was at the bar of Florent very late Sunday night. A snow storm was raging outside.

Douglas Sirk's unsettlingly slick and glossy treatment of race relations in America: the old Fannie Hurst chestnut about a lifelong friendship between a white and a black woman.

An untrained painter discovered in rural France Stories about lowly domestic workers who turn out to have secret artistic abilities or who bear an unrecognized burden for the community often rub me the wrong way.

In a few days, summer officially begins. That means large numbers of summer movies - 28 open in July alone.

When the title appears at the start of "Far From Heaven," a brightly painted title covers the screen over the backdrop of a street scene occupied by people and automobiles, and the music of composer Elmer Bernstein rises in a broad sweep that evokes a 1950s era Technicolor film.

Shirley Temple Black appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington on her appointment to be ambassador to Ghana, Sept.

Of course, this being a Warhol film, the camera is static and the action largely verbal.

Maybe you noticed his story, maybe you didn't. In any case, it's the type of article that makes our newspaper a community asset.

On today's show: Learn why the makers of common household products are reluctant to disclose their ingredients.