11 articles from 2009
Connie Hines, a star who let Mr. Ed do the talking
24 December 2009 1:33 PM, PST
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He had the talking horse. Now all Alan Young had to do was find the right woman to play his wife on television's "Mr. Ed." It was a task made simple, the veteran actor said Thursday, the moment he met a young actress named Connie Hines who had moved to Hollywood just two years before and had only a handful of TV appearances on her resume."I was one of the people in the room when we were auditioning for the part," Young, 90, told The Associated Press. "When Connie Hines walked in, we all just looked at each other before she even started speaking and said, 'This is the girl.' She just exuded something . fresh air, I guess you could call it . that we knew would make her perfect for the part."Hines, who died a week ago at age 78, went on to
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Jennifer Jones, 1919 - 2009
21 December 2009 1:46 PM, PST
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"Jennifer Jones, 90, an actress who won an Academy Award for playing a saint in The Song of Bernadette and became a popular sinner in Hollywood melodramas including Duel in the Sun and Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, died Thursday at her home in Malibu, Calif," reports Adam Bernstein in the Washington Post.
"Jennifer Jones remains one of the more controversial actresses in the Hollywood cinema," writes Richard Lippe in Film Reference. "In general, her professional and personal involvement with David O Selznick has been given a prominence that has colored assessments of Jones's distinctive contribution to 1940s cinema. Interestingly, the central issue is not that Jones lacked talent or screen presence. The longstanding criticism is that Selznick, because of his commitment to Jones, had no critical distance and, with King Vidor's Duel in the Sun, tried to fashion an erotic identity for her, making Jones into a ridiculous creation." Still,
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Jennifer Jones, a Hollywood life
21 December 2009 8:30 AM, PST
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The late Jennifer Jones experienced the classic Tinseltown story of discovery and stardom, but also endured depression and death. Brittany Murphy was just the latest to follow in her footsteps
Mrs Simon, Mrs Selznick, Mrs Walker, Phylis Isley, Jennifer Jones – all of those names were offered her, like landlines in the storm, and she gazed on all of them with insufficient belief or conviction. There was a time, in the 80s and the 90s, when I did everything I could to get Jennifer Jones to speak to me, or just to see me so that she might decide she could speak to me. And all the time I was asking her, or her lawyers, I had another Mrs Selznick crowing in my ear in her best Pierre Hotel witch act, "She doesn't have anything to say. She won't remember. She doesn't care to remember."
Well, she's dead now, at 90. Gore Vidal
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- David Thomson
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Jennifer Jones obituary
20 December 2009 9:33 AM, PST
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Hollywood star who won an Oscar for her role as a saintly peasant girl in the 1943 film The Song of Bernardette
On the day of her 25th birthday, 2 March 1944, a fresh-faced, hitherto unknown performer stepped on to the stage of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in Los Angeles, to receive her best actress Oscar for her performance in the title role of The Song of Bernadette. It was officially the debut of Jennifer Jones, who has died aged 90. She had appeared four years earlier under her real name of Phyllis Isley, but only in a Dick Tracy serial and a B-western. (Actually, she had been born Phylis, but had added an "l".)
Ingrid Bergman, nominated for her performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls, said of The Song of Bernadette: "I cried all the way through, because Jennifer was so moving and because I realised I had lost the award." Jones,
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Oscar Winner Jennifer Jones Dies
17 December 2009 11:36 AM, PST
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Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun
Jennifer Jones, the Oscar-winning star of the 1943 blockbuster The Song of Bernadette and the wife of Gone with the Wind producer David O. Selznick, died of “natural causes” earlier today at her home in Malibu. Jones was 90.
In addition to her Bernadette Soubirous in Henry King’s film about the young French peasant who claimed to see and talk to the Virgin Mary, Jones also received Oscar nominations for playing Claudette Colbert’s all-American daughter in John Cromwell’s Since You Went Away (1944, in the supporting actress category), an amnesiac who may have murdered her husband in William Dieterle’s psychological noir Love Letters (1945), a wilful "half-breed" in King Vidor’s scorching Duel in [...]
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- Andre Soares
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Actress Jennifer Jones Dies at 90
17 December 2009 10:42 AM, PST
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Actress Jennifer Jones, who won an Academy Award for her performance in The Song of Bernadette, died Thursday at her home in Malibu; she was 90. The recipient of four other Oscar nominations, Jones was known as Phylis Walker early in her career, when she was married to actor Robert Walker, whom she met in acting school. However, it was producer David O. Selznick who "discovered" her, changed her name, groomed her for a big-screen career -- and later married her after she divorced Walker. Under Selznick's guidance, she made her first big film, The Song of Bernadette, the story of a French peasant girl who sees visions of the Virgin Mary near the village of Lourdes. The movie catapulted her to fame and an Oscar, and roles in 40s hits such as Since You Went Away, Love Letters, Portrait of Jennie, and the notorious-for-its-time Duel in the Sun followed. In the 50s she appeared in the cult hit Beat the Devil, the hit drama Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and the massive flop A Farewell to Arms, produced by her husband. After Selznick's death in 1965, she mostly retired from acting, making her last screen appearance in the disaster movie The Towering Inferno. Jones is survived by her son, Robert Walker Jr.
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Trailer for Letters To Juliet
23 November 2009 7:41 PM, PST
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I am an absolute sucker for a good, old-fashioned romantic comedy. Blame it on my hormones, my gender, my astrological sign, but I don’t care. There are times when you just want to turn your brain off and get engrossed in someone else’s cookie cutter romantic trials and tribulations. Which leads me to Letters To Juliet, starring the adorable Amanda Seyfried (along with Gael Garcia Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave, and Christopher Egan). The trailer lays out the cute little plot (Italy! Love letters! Romeo and Juliet! Running!), all while set to a (poorly cut) Taylor Swift song. Hey, I said it was cookie cutter!
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- Kate Erbland
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Robert Pattinson Admits All the Tabloid Rumors Are True
19 November 2009 6:30 AM, PST
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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyIt's all true, Twilight fans: Robert Pattinson is dating a costar, is engaged, has had a drug overdose, and has had an injury involving his derriere. All of it.
"I actually come up with these rumors myself," the British actor, 23, laughingly told Matt Lauer on Thursday morning's Today show.
In a chuckle-filled, rapid exchange of questions and answers with the morning host, Pattinson squarely took on all the outlandish rumors that have dogged him for the last few months - and jokingly fessed up to each and every one.
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The Spare Stage Presents A Body Of Water, 11/6-22
6 November 2009 2:00 AM, PST
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The Spare Stage production of Lee Blessing's A Body of Water - a Bay Area premiere - opens November 6 and runs through November 22 at Exit Theatre in San Francisco, with Spare Stage Artistic Director Stephen Drewes at the helm.
A middle-aged couple awakens in a beautiful country house on a hill, surrounded by trees and glimpses of water. There's just one problem. They can't remember their own names, much less the relationship between them. Their ensuing pursuit of memory yields both terrifying and comic results, setting them adrift on a leaky raft of postmodern anxiety.
For Moss (Val Hendrickson) and Avis (Holly Silk) the loss of memory equates to loss of self, a disorientation that produces a paralyzing loss of agency. Unable to move in any direction, they are at sea without a paddle. We're in Samuel Beckett territory here, with a generous splash of Neil Simon, stuck between
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B.D. Wong, Annita Gillette & Robert Klein Join Starry 'I Love You: Love Letters' Benefit, 11/9
4 November 2009 11:57 AM, PST
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B.D. Wong, Anita Gillette and Robert Klein have been added to the roster of celebrities who will celebrate the posthumous release of Remember How I Love You: Love Letters from an Extraordinary Marriage, Jerry and Elaine Orbach's autobiographical memoir recounting their thirty year marriage, at a once-in-a-lifetime reunion of the couple's colleagues and friends at The Snapple Theater Center on Monday, November 9, 2009 at 5:30 Pm.
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Philbin, Belzer, and Cariou Added To Orbachs' Remember How I Love You Release Celebration, 11/9
29 October 2009 6:33 PM, PDT
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Regis Philbin, Richard Belzer and Len Cariou have been added to the roster of celebrities who will celebrate the posthumous release of Remember How I Love You: Love Letters from an Extraordinary Marriage, Jerry and Elaine Orbach’s autobiographical memoir recounting their thirty year marriage, at a once-in-a-lifetime reunion of the couple’s colleagues and friends at The Snapple Theater Center on Monday, November 9, 2009 at 5:30 Pm.
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