Tuesday Dec 1 | Boston Globe
A tribute to James Mason, the thinking mana s movie star
James Mason in "North By Northwest" in 1959. James Mason is a category of one. Too handsome and substantial to be a supporting player, he was too dark, too aloof ever to last as a true romantic lead - too much a classical actor to be a matinee idol, and vice versa.
David Thomson on Isabelle Huppert
David Thomson: I doubt that in the history of the movies we've ever before had women in their 50s standing above all others.
The European Film Academy will honor French actress Isabelle Huppert with its European Achievement in World Cinema tribute at the European Film Awards ceremony on Dec.
Years ending in 9 produce some remarkable movies. Here's proof: 1939 "Gone With the Wind" "The Wizard of Oz" "Goodbye Mr.
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Was James Mason born with that voice? Were his first words spoken in that velvety, Yorkshire-accented purr; that voice of private amusement and secret schemes; a voice that might belong to a dirty-minded aristocrat or an aristocratically minded scoundrel? "I'm not what is called a civilized man," says Mason as Jules Verne 's smoking-jacketed ...
A dashingly handsome French actor, Louis Jourdan trained for the stage under Rene Simon in Paris in the 1930s and made his film debut in 1939's "Le Corsaire". His budding career was cut short by World War II when his.... A dashingly handsome French actor, Louis Jourdan trained for the stage under Rene Simon in Paris in the 1930s and made his film ...
After graduating from the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts in Perth and appearing extensively on Australian TV in series including "Halifax f.p.", dark-haired, porcelain-skinned actress Frances O'Connor made.... After graduating from the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts in Perth and appearing extensively on Australian TV in ...
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