Barbara Stanwyck News

IT'S easy to recognize the Bad Girl. She's usually a bottle blonde, stuffed into a tight sweater that outlines her oddly conical breasts.

The Danville Public Library continues its "Great Books to Great Films" series on at 6:30 p.m. Monday with a free showing of the 1944 thriller "Double Indemnity" in the first-floor meeting room.

Gene Autry slept here. So did Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Barbara Stanwyck, "The Cisco Kid" duo Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo, "Annie Oakley's" Gail Davis and a host of other western film and television stars.

Barbara Stanwyck, with Fred MacMurray, in the 1944 film "Double Indemnity." Stanwyck received four Oscar nominations but never won a best actress award.

In every era the movies have had their glamour girls. The 40's had the bouncy, gutsy types like Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, and Joan Crawford; the 50's had the voluptuous types, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, and Kim Novak; and today we have the "new woman," the super woman who is capable of anything whether it be fighting corruption, running a ...

Reviewed by Jon Ted Wynne Still shining among the firmament of the very best classic Hollywood stars is Barbara Stanwyck, one of the most versatile leading ladies to ever grace both the silver and small screens.

BREAKFAST FOR TWO is an agreeably silly diversion in which a wealthy Texas gal, Valentine , sets out to reform Jonathan , a playboy facing bankruptcy.

What is it? The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Volume 1, 15 half-hour episodes on three discs from E1 Entertainment and the Archive of American Television.

The estimated number of cookies that will be left out for Santa this Christmas Eve is 84 million! There are no cookies in our cinema choice today.

Robert Osbourne chooses his own Christmas eve movies tonight on Turner Classic Movies, starting with a 1940 film the channel is boasting as a lost classic, with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck and a script by Preston Sturges: "Remember the Night" . It's followed by "Christmas in July" , "Chicken Every Sunday" , "Meet Me in St.

Little Italy and Chinatown Merchants Associations are sponsoring a parade from Mulberry to Mott Street, featuring marching bands, martial artists and acrobats, Italian American singers and Lion and Dragon Dance troupes.

When you have worn out of your copy of 'It's A Wonderful Life' and the twenty-four marathon of 'A Christmas Story' does not bring a close to your holiday film viewings, this is a short list of films that will help keep you in the holiday spirit for a little bit longer.

Dir. Howard Hawks . The great Barbara Stanwyck is, if possible, even more marvelous than usual as a brassy nightclub entertainer recruited by seven prissy professors to help in the writing of a dictionary of slang in Hawks's first-rate comedy, based on a sparkling Billy Wilder script, a sly variation on Snow White .

Something old and something new lead off this look at recently released TV shows on DVD.

MOVIES New movies include "Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle" with Doris Roberts and James Van Der Beek and "12 Men of Christmas" , starring Kristin Chenoweth.

By STEWART SMITH Entertainment Writer Welcome back one and all as I continue my examination of the works of director Billy Wilder, this week taking on his classic noir "Double Indemnity." If you're just joining us, my "Catching Up On" column is a chance for me to write about the films and directors that I've yet to have much exposure to.

Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications is running a video online on the making of WGN Channel 9's holiday special "Bozo, Gar & Ray." It's almost too meta, as a making-of documentary about a making-of documentary about three fondly remembered local TV series: "Bozo's Circus," "Garfield Goose" and "Ray Rayner & Friends." Yet it's nonetheless ...

What's your favorite Christmas movie? Bet you said "It's a Wonderful Life," or "Miracle on 34th Street," or one of the umpteen versions of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Although I have a soft spot for the original "Miracle on 34th Street," my favorite Christmas movie is more obscure - at least until now.

It's going to be a very special holiday for movie fans this year as Turner Classic Movies presents the rarely seen gem Remember the Night during a December packed with holiday favorites.

Annie Oakley hit the stage in 1882, hitting her targets from all angles, and three years later joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.