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Never Won an Oscar: The Actresses
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Never Won an Oscar: The Actresses

Feb 20, 2015 Jill Blake 1

With the Academy Awards ceremony coming up this Sunday, February 22, we decided to take a look at some of the best actors and actresses who never won an Oscar for their acting talents. In this gallery, […]

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“Jungle Red” on Blu: 75th Anniversary of THE WOMEN

May 28, 2014 Jill Blake 1

2014 marks the 75th anniversary of what many consider to be the greatest year in Hollywood history–1939. The most recognizable films to come out of this monumental year, Gone with the Wind and The Wizard […]

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Harlean, Jean, and Serious Mommy Issues: The Jean Harlow Story

Mar 5, 2014 The Retro Set 10

The brief 26 years of Jean Harlow’s life were marked with tragedy, disappointments, heartbreak and, of course, a tremendously successful screen career. Her intensely sensual on screen presence ignited American movies and gave the world […]

Movies

A Jimmy Stewart Double Feature: OF HUMAN HEARTS and NO TIME FOR COMEDY

Feb 18, 2014 Wade Sheeler 0

By Wade Sheeler Recently, the Warner Archive Collection released two lesser-known James Stewart films that offer a unique and unusual perspective on the actor from an especially fertile period just as he was attaining national […]

Movies

Jean Harlow and Clark Gable in CHINA SEAS (1935)

Aug 17, 2013 The Retro Set 2

  China Seas (1935) was MGM’s answer to … well … MGM. If the premise of this Clark Gable/Jean Harlow film sounds suspiciously familiar to the 1932 Gable-Harlow smash hit Red Dust, that’s because it […]

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