Claude Rains News

One of the memorable exchanges in the movie Casablanca was: Captain Renault: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here." Emile: "Your winnings, sir." Captain Renault: "Thank you very much." In 2010, Congress diverts fees from the patent office and the IAM blog is shocked that no one is outraged? Poseurs masquerading as Claude ...

" More Than a Game " LeBron James Lionsgate They began playing basketball together when they were 11.

Rising roots rock kings the Avett Brothers perform songs from their latest album; Heartless Bastards follow.

Some of you may feel like Claude Rains in "Casablanca": You were shocked, shocked , that Gov.

Famed director Michael Curtiz scored a home run with the Joan Crawford noir vehicle Mildred Pierce .

I went to the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday and the highlight was spending time with the cast members of " Inglourious Basterds ." On the red carpet there's more talk about fashion than film history, but Christoph Waltz of " Inglourious Basterds " stopped midway down the rug on Sunday to ponder his place in the cinematic history of dairy ...

Life doesn't simply imitate art. There are important differences between the Scott Brown story and Jefferson Smith's. And the differences make Brown's actual achievement more impressive than Smith's fictitious one.

As I mentioned below, Turner Classic Movies serves up a birthday tribute to Elvis Presley all day Friday.

December 31, 2009, 6:41 AM / 1. Two men, each named David, pitched perfect major league baseball games in 1998 and 1999.

1928---- 1943 ------------------------ 1992 -----2007 We continue to pull one movie from either end of Oscar's chronology, working towards the center of their eighty-plus year history.

"In a key scene in Frank Capra 's 1939 film 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' appointed senator Jefferson Smith, played by Jimmy Stewart , suggests to a colleague that perhaps it would be a good idea to read bills before voting on them," John Fund writes at OpinionJournal.com. " 'The bills?' responds an incredulous Sen.

Word is that Russell Crowe is making an updated version of "Robin Hood," but who cares when you can see the real deal? "The Adventures of Robin Hood," with Errol Flynn, will be on the big screen at the Hershey Theatre Sunday at 2 p.m. The 1938 classic also stars Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains and Alan Hale.

Marshall District Library's "Midday Matinee" will be held on Thursday, January 7, at noon.

There are a lot of reasons to have a low opinion of Sen. Chris Dodd -- his liberal agenda, general smugness, and sweetheart mortgage deals from Countrywide, just to name a few.

By now, you doubtless know a dastardly hacker broke into the e-mail system at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain late last month, grabbing and making public more than 1,000 e-mails that expose how these "scientific experts," cited so often to confirm "man-made global warming," have been fudging their data, ...

The University of North Alabama Library 's Collier Library has announced the acquisition of film scripts, photographs, DVD's. interview recordings, and other personal papers from famed motion picture actor Claude Rains .

Review by Thumper: Thumps from 1 to 5: Thump of 4.5 This film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" is directed by Frank Capra and written by Sidney Buchman based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished novel.

"I remember going to my local libraries to see if there was anything written about my dad," she said of her father, Hollywood legend Claude Rains.

"You want to provide the kind of training and the goals and the structure for them to achieve at very high levels." Yet, "there is, I believe, a need to be realistic." --Joseph Hermanowicz I n one of the high points of American cinema, Rick Blaine, the cynical saloonkeeper unforgettably portrayed by Humphrey Bogart, remarks that he came to ...

Identify either pitcher. 2.What role does Claude Rains play in the classic movie Casablanca? 3. Whom did Ava Gardner marry in 1942 and divorce the next year? Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.