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Although the movie "Bachelor in Paradise" didn't receive great reviews back in 1961, watching it tonight was fun.

Earlier this evening I enjoyed watching an MGM "B" musical, TWO GIRLS ON BROADWAY, which starred Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, and George Murphy.

Jame M. Cain's classic novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice" gets a noirish update from German writer/director Christian Petzold.

Of course, this being a Warhol film, the camera is static and the action largely verbal.

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big Clock / Nightmare ... / I Married a Dead Man Abstract Literature and film buffs will be delighted by this collection of pulp novels, most of which were made into important films.

It's easy to forget that Mia Farrow, the actress once married to Woody Allen, first launched to stardom on television in the 1960s prime time soap opera Peyton Place .

A businessman and his secretary, both married to different people, kiss in the office.

A precocious Italian boy living near Milan is taken by his sister to see MGM's Ziegfeld Girl and is transfixed watching Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, and Lana Turner parade across the screen in lavish costumes by Adrian.

I'll never forget the night I took a first date to see the steamy 1981 remake of 'The Postman Always Rings Twice.' When Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange started pawing at each other in a kitchen scene and getting rather explicit atop a chopping block, my date looked at me and said, 'What kind of nasty movie did you bring me to? I know what you're ...

If you love the TV show Mad Men -- and you know you do -- then you should acquaint yourself with the films of Douglas Sirk .

This evening I began watching DRAMATIC SCHOOL , a 1938 MGM film with a bevy of interesting young actresses including Paulette Goddard, Lana Turner, Virginia Grey, and Ann Rutherford.

Back during my days in parochial school, "adultery" was more of a concept than an actual word.

No fan of the King would "Return to Sender" this 598-page volume. Few details are too small for this '70s-Elvis-size book - list of hotels he stayed at in more than four dozen cities, 16 different guitars he ...

Published in Ciao Imitation of Life classic deals with the harsh reality of a two single mothers each with a daughter struggling to raise their children in the same home.

There has never been a movie star book as drop-dead gorgeous, nor as personal, as "Lana: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies." This lush, lavishly illustrated, 400-page volume is a coffee table book that ...