This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.
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The work of legendary actor François Simon, son of Michel Simon.
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The life of Frank Sinatra, as an actor and singer and the steps along the way that led him to become...
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A short documentary about one of the most prominent Croatian actors of all time.
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The filmmaker Juan Pinzás goes on a physical and also inner journey, in search of some lost images t...
An exploration of the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the na...
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John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Da...
A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), f...
In his five-decade career, the 1950s and 1960s were Frank Sinatra's Golden Age. He was at the top of...
Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his...
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