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Based on Anton Chekov's only novel, The Shooting Party , director Douglas Sirk has neither the visual style nor the social message in his second American film that he would in his later work, though there are signs of the greatness to come.

Lauren Bacall made one of the greatest debuts in film history. In 1944's " To Have and Have Not, " she told Humphrey Bogart's character, "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and ... blow." Wow.

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards to actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis.

Go to any acting class and chances are at least some of the hopefuls there will tell you, "I don't want to be a star, I just want to work." That simple dream doesn't come true for many, but it surely has for William.... Go to any acting class and chances are at least some of the hopefuls there will tell you, "I don't want to be a star, I just want ...

Douglas Sirk's polished transcription of William Faulkner's Pylon , a tale of barnstorming pilots between world wars, might be easy to overlook among his Universal Studio melodramas of the Fifties: it's in ungaudy black-and-white, for starters, and the milieu is more that of Hawks and Wellman.

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.

What happened in Peyton Place did not stay in Peyton Place. The fictional Massachusetts burg became synonymous with American small-town secrets and scandal, first in Grace Metalious' sensational 1956 novel, followed by the Oscar-nominated 1957 film, the 1959 sequel novel, the 1961 sequel film and, then, in 1964, as American television's first ...