Lana Turner News

TOPICS: History ; TV/Movies KEYWORDS: moviereview ; realtime First session: September 1, 2009.

This is a naughty '60s sex romp about a naive boy whose progress to maturity is helped along by several crafty females.

Here's a look at some trivia from San Clemente's past: * In the 1920s, a huge colorful parrot was kept in a cage on the patio of Travaglini's Cafe * Federal officers caught a 53-foot boat with 700 cases of bootleg liquor off the coast in 1932.

Douglas Sirk's unsettlingly slick and glossy treatment of race relations in America: the old Fannie Hurst chestnut about a lifelong friendship between a white and a black woman.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Douglas Sirk's "Imitation of Life" with the screening of a recently struck print of the film, hosted by critic Stephen Farber, on Aug.

Her sex appeal may have garnered lots of attention, but Lana Turner, nA©e Julia Jean Mildred Francis Turner, was more than just a pin-up girl with a femme fatale image.

Published: Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 6:14 a.m. Today is one day shy of the 40th anniversary of man's first walk on the moon.

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.