Tag Archives: documentaries

100-Year-Old Marsha Hunt on FDR, John Wayne & the Blacklist

Golden Age of Hollywood actress Marsha Hunt will turn 101 this fall, but like Olivia de Havilland (b. 1916) — who won the role of Melanie in Gone with the Wind right out from under her — Hunt is a true survivor, and isn't voluntarily going away any time soon! (more…)
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Grace Jones Reveals Long-Awaited Documentary … and Some Leg!

Mercurial avant-garde singer, actress and model Grace Jones, who turns 70 next month, appeared at a Q&A held after a Film Society of Lincoln Center screening of the documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Saturday evening, finally having unleashed the film on the world after beginning work on it with director Sophie Fiennes in 2005.…
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Blowing Up Her Image: A Review of ‘Bombshell’

If you're old enough to know who Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) was, her name probably conjures a handful of things: Great beauty, skinny-dipping, many husbands, Harvey Korman's Hedley Lamarr character in Blazing Saddles (1974), a shoplifting scandal. (more…)
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