Don Ameche News

A former child actor, Cara Williams was a steady presence in features and television from the 1940s through the 60s.

In the 1930s, actor Don Ameche resided in a house in west suburban River Forest.

From 20th Century Fox in 1939, let us now give thanks for director Allan Dwan 's version of The Three Musketeers .

One of my favorite episodes of "Leave It to Beaver," a TV sitcom from long ago, was "The Book Report." It aired in April 1963, about halfway between the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

This seems to be a week for watching movies from 20th Century-Fox! Tonight I followed CONEY ISLAND , CARNIVAL IN COSTA RICA , and THE LUCK OF THE IRISH with the entertaining musical THAT NIGHT IN RIO, starring Don Ameche, Alice Faye, and Carmen Miranda.

We asked movie critics Roger Fristoe and Jayne McClew to answer 10 questions about the Oscars and movies, and we invite you to join the discussion with them.

Posted in Film , Oscars 2009 by Ben Kenigsberg on February 11th, 2009 at 3:06 pm Two weeks ago we presented a brief history of consolation Oscars .

Helping to keep the Ramona name alive in 1928 was another cinematic telling of the Southern California-set story.

The Los Angeles Times Travel section has an interesting, quite lengthy article on the history and locations behind Helen Hunt Jackson's classic novel RAMONA .

Several 2008 movies -- "Milk," "Gran Torino," "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" among them -- deliver big messages of social justice, and deliver them in highly sophisticated ways.