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Though the title of the awards has changed over the decades, the two guest star in a drama series Emmys are among the most competitive handed out during the Creative Arts ceremony. Cicely Tyson earned the most nomination in this category with nine. Michael J. Fox received seven nominations earning the award in 2009 for FX’s “Rescue Me.” And who have won the most in the past five decades? Patricia Clarkson, Charles S. Dutton, Cherry Jones, Ron Cephas Jones, John Lithgow, Shirley Knight, Margo Martindale, Patrick McGoohan, Amanda Plummer and Alfre Woodward have each won twice.

This year five drama nominees appeared in FX’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith“- Michaela Cole, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Parker Posey and John Turturro. Rounding out the nominees for Best Drama Guest Actress are Claire Foy for “The Crown,” Marcia Gay Harden for “The Morning Show” while Nestor Carbonell for “Shogun,” Tracy Letts...

Years in the making! The glory of MGM on parade! Enough studio resources to film twenty pictures were expended on this paean to showman Florenz Ziegfeld. It’s really Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s Technicolor valentine to itself, showing off the studio’s enormous stable of musical talent, along with various of its comic performers. Arthur Freed and Louis B. Mayer’s notion of ‘something for everyone’ results in weird stack of grandiose musical numbers and mostly weak comedy. The biggest draw is the incredible color cinematography that peeks through in three or four jaw-droppingly elaborate musical spectacles. The picture is a workout to find the artistic limits of the Technicolor system.

Ziegfeld Follies

Blu-ray

Warner Archive Collection

1945 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 117 110 min. / Street Date June 15, 2021 / 21.99

Starring: (alphabetically): Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams. Also...

Firelight Media today revealed the 14 Fellows selected for the 2020-22 Firelight Documentary Lab. The 18-month program supporting Black, indigenous and other filmmakers of color is now in its 11th year.

The projects the new class bring to the Fellowship range from stories of generational Black farmers in the American South and the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Montana to personal stories revolving around family, immigration, ancestry, identity and more.

“It has been an extraordinarily challenging year for documentary filmmakers, especially emerging filmmakers of color, which Firelight’s Documentary Lab is designed to support,” said Loira Limbal, SVP Programs at Firelight Media. “Between the dual crises of the global pandemic and the national reckoning with racist violence in the U.S., filmmakers like the 14 Fellows we’ve just welcomed into the Lab need funding, professional networks, and a supportive community of peers perhaps more than ever before.

Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore | Written by Howard Lindsay, Allan Scott | Directed by George Stevens

Dazzling dancer “Lucky” (Fred Astaire) steps off stage and straight into his wedding outfit. But his colleagues don’t want to lose their star player to some dame, so they find ways to stop him. Lucky’s lateness triggers a fit of rage in the father of the would-be bride, and he issues an ultimatum: Lucky must go to New York, build a fortune, and return only when he earns the status (i.e. money) to marry his daughter.

Moments later, Lucky is in the Big Apple, where he falls in love with literally the first girl he meets. In classic rom-com stalker style, Lucky pursues Penny (Ginger Rogers) against her wishes. He chases her into a dance studio, where he masquerades as an amateur in order to humiliate...

Fred Astaire ca. 1935. Fred Astaire movies: Dancing in the dark, on the ceiling on TCM Aug. 5, '15, is Fred Astaire Day on Turner Classic Movies, as TCM continues with its “Summer Under the Stars” series. Just don't expect any rare Astaire movies, as the actor-singer-dancer's star vehicles – mostly Rko or MGM productions – have been TCM staples since the early days of the cable channel in the mid-'90s. True, Fred Astaire was also featured in smaller, lesser-known fare like Byron Chudnow's The Amazing Dobermans (1976) and Yves Boisset's The Purple Taxi / Un taxi mauve (1977), but neither one can be found on the TCM schedule. (See TCM's Fred Astaire movie schedule further below.) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals Some fans never tire of watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing together. With these particular fans in mind, TCM is showing – for the nth time – nine Astaire-Rogers musicals of the '30s,...

One can’t ignore a certain irony that Leo McCarey, director of one of the most irrefutably sorrowful motion pictures with 1937’s Make Way For Tomorrow, was actually well renowned for his comedic ventures, like that same year’s The Awful Truth or the most beloved of the Marx Brothers films with Duck Soup (1933). In the decades since its release, the film has recently come to be recognized for its influence on several filmmakers, including Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953) and Ira Sachs’ Love is Strange (2014). Filmed during the Great Depression, yet without specific references to the significant economic downturn, the film has a timeless resonance that feels particularly fitting for our contemporary existence.

Though not cemented in Western culture, there’s a particular tendency for this depiction to transpire within the landscape of white, capitalistic peoples and their insistence on stuffing their elders into nursing home facilities. The film...

A dazzling lineup of six dramas has been assembled for the Criterion Collection's May 2015 slate. Along with works from classic filmmakers and actors, special features in the set (Blu-ray only) include interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, Bernardo Bertolucci, Wim Wenders and many more. Booking individual titles begins in mid-April, and Criterion will release the films for general purchase in mid-May. Synopses below are courtesy of Criterion. "Make Way for Tomorrow" "Make Way for Tomorrow," by Leo McCarey ("An Affair to Remember"), is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi ("It's a Wonderful Life") and Victor Moore ("Swing Time") headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and...

Welcome to Holiday Favorites, a series in which Slackerwood contributors and our friends talk about the movies we watch during the holiday season, holiday-related or otherwise.

Not many remember, or even know of, this touching holiday comedy's existence. I suppose that's fair enough since the release date for this Christmas-set film was actually Easter. It also didn't help that It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) was released in between future classics It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Miracle on 34th Street (1947). As if this weren't enough, the movie went out of circulation in 1990 without even a single TV airing until a low-key DVD release several years ago saved it from holiday movie obscurity.

It's a real shame, since It Happened on 5th Avenue is not only just as good an offering as those other two classics, but it is also one of those rare films with a blend of humor and pathos...

A former vaudevillian, the great comedian Fred Allen found his fame in radio but was unable to navigate a suitable transition to TV (“Television is a medium,” he once observed, “because it is neither rare nor well done.”). He made a few casual appearances in movies but only once, in 1945, did he take full advantage of that particular medium.

That film, one of the “lost” trailers featured in our Great Global Trailer Search, was, until its recent home video revival, very nearly a lost film in itself. More’s the pity because It’s in the Bag, Allen’s sole starring vehicle, is an overlooked comic gem.

A surreal-screwball farce fueled by Allen’s perpetually perplexed sad sack persona and out-of-left-field set pieces (like a nightmarish trip to the movies that predicts the vertiginous pitfalls of a crowded Imax theater), It’s in the Bag recalls the anything goes Paramount...

Billy Wilder movies, Johnny Carson interviews tonight on TCM Billy Wilder is Turner Classic Movies’ Director of the Evening tonight, July 8, 2013. But before Wilder Evening begins, TCM will be presenting a series of brief interviews from The Tonight Show, back in the old Johnny Carson days — or rather, nights. The Carson interviewees this evening are Doris Day, Charlton Heston, Tony Curtis, Chevy Chase, and Steve Martin. (See also: Doris Day today.) (Photo: Billy Wilder.) As for Billy Wilder, TCM will be showing the following: Some Like It Hot (1959), The Fortune Cookie (1966), The Spirit of St. Louis (1958), and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Of course, all of those have been shown before and are widely available. Some Like It Hot vs. The Major and the Minor: Subversive and subversiver Some Like It Hot is perhaps Billy Wilder’s best-known film. This broad comedy featuring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis...

Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer in Leo McCarey's Love Affair Leo McCarey on TCM: Going My Way, Duck Soup, Love Affair, Make Way For Tomorrow Leo McCarey's Love Affair (1939) is now mostly forgotten, whereas its 1957 remake (also by McCarey), An Affair to Remember, remains a romance classic. In the original, in place of Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr we have Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne as the star-crossed lovers. Boyer would become a fantastic dramatic actor in later years (e.g., Max Ophüls' Madame De…), but here he's just Hollywood's boring version of the "suave continental." Irene Dunne, on the other hand, was one of the best actresses of the '30s and '40s. She's fine in Love Affair, though it's not one of her greatest performances. (Warren Beatty and Annette Bening starred in a widely panned 1994 remake, that also featured Katharine Hepburn in the role played...

Beulah Bondi in Leo McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow Make Way For Tomorrow Review Part I What's good about Make Way for Tomorrow are the brilliant performances, especially by Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, and Victor Moore. The intelligent screenplay by Viña Delmar, based on Josephine Lawrence's novel, and Helen Leary and Nolan Leary's play, oftentimes feels realistic. Leo McCarey, for his part, directs the proceedings with an ample amount of humor; not the belly-laugh kind, but as a droll observation about the clash of generations. So what's not to like in Make Way for Tomorrow? Well, the two elderly characters are still active an [...]...

Make Way For Tomorrow (1937) Direction: Leo McCarey Cast: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Elisabeth Risdon, Maurice Moscovitch, Minna Gombell, Louise Beavers Screenplay: Viña Delmar; from Josephine Lawrence's novel, and Helen Leary and Nolan Leary's play Recommended with Reservations Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, Make Way for Tomorrow The main conflict in Leo McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow revolves around an elderly couple, Barkley and Lucy Cooper (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi), who lose their home and are forced to move in with their adult children. The sons and daughters hesitate, then reluctantly agree to house the couple. [...]...

The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation (Wacky Wonderland)

ABC Family, 7 Am Et

A French poodle (Paris Hilton) must save the day when inept thieves strike during the holidays.

It Happened on 5th Avenue (Classic Cheer)

TCM, 10 Pm Et

A hobo (Victor Moore) shares a New York mansion with a veteran (Don DeFore) and others who need a wintertime place to stay.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (Bah Humbug)

ABC Family, 11 Pm Et

The Pumpkin King gives the yuletide season a touch of Halloween in an animated tale from the mind of Tim Burton.

What else is showing this season? See our The 12 Flavors of Christmas - 2010 Holiday TV Movie Guide.

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Link | Posted 12/4/2010 by reelz

Tim Burton | Paris Hilton | The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation | It Happened on 5th Avenue | The Nightmare Before Christmas...

(1937, U, Eureka)

This important addition to Eureka's "Masters of Cinema" series stars Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore as an elderly, lower-middle-class couple who lose their home in the Great Depression, are shuffled around between their sons and daughters and are finally separated forever after a last unforgettable evening in New York.

It was a box-office failure for its director, Leo McCarey, who was best known for comedy and romance. But when he picked up his Oscar for the screwball classic The Awful Truth that year he said he'd been honoured for the wrong film.

Graham Greene (as movie critic for The Spectator) thought it "the most sentimental and yet the most moving of all" the year's social dramas: at the end, "a sense of misery and inhumanity is left vibrating in the nerves".

In one of two excellent essays on the Blu-ray disc, Peter Bogdanovich reports Orson Welles saying: "Oh my God,...

Elderly couple Bark (Victor Moore) and Lucy (Beulah Bondi) have hit hard times and the bank is foreclosing on their home. Ashamed of their situation and with Bark striving to find a job to solve their predicament they have concealed this fact from their children until the eleventh hour. Bark and Lucy finally break the news to their children and the decision is made that the couple should move in with their children. In order to do so they will need to ‘temporarily’ live apart, Lucy with their son and Bark with their daughter. Separated by a large distance the couple are reunited for only a few hours in the stunning final act of the film and they endeavour to make the most of it.

The final act is incredible but the first hour does also have some remarkable scenes. Lucy’s telephone conversation with Bark for instance is beautifully...

Later this month, our friends at the Masters Of Cinema will be releasing Leo McCarey’s 1937 film, Make Way For Tomorrow on Blu-ray.

It was only this past February, that the Criterion Collection released their edition of Make Way For Tomorrow on DVD, with an incredible cover from the comic artist, Seth. The Criterion version was only available on DVD, and the Masters Of Cinema release will only be available on Blu-ray.

Assuming the press release lists all of the supplements on the MoC release, they will be duplicating all of the material from the Criterion disc. You’ll get a video piece from Peter Bogdanovich discussing the life and career of McCarey, and another video interview with Gary Giddins, discussing Leo McCarey’s filmography.

While it will be nice to see this film in high definition, it doesn’t seem like this is a title that you’ll need to double dip on,...

A common misperception among the wistfully nostalgic is that movies used to be so much better in the olden days, when they were “clean” and “happy.” Actually, some of the best pictures to come out of old Hollywood were grim, shameless tearjerkers, ending with lovers separated, heroes dead, and the future dreadfully uncertain. Leo McCarey’s 1937 melodrama Make Way For Tomorrow has a reputation as one of the saddest movies ever made, yet it’s also a marvel of Hollywood classicism, sweeping the audience swiftly and smoothly toward a devastating finish. Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi play an aged ...

Above: Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi in Leo McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow. Courtesy of the Criterion Collection.

I've spent so much time in and on Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story that I was fairly certain I already knew the film on which it was based, the long unattainable and finally released on DVD 1937 Leo McCarey picture Make Way for Tomorrow. Both films tell of aged parents who try to stay with their grown-up children, only to find their offspring irritated and put-upon by the apparent burden of the elderly. It may be trite and unuseful to compare the two, as many have done, but the much anticipated video release of McCarey's film by Criterion, shocked me out of my presumption.

Whereas Ozu's film adopts a distance through a story and tone more responsive to and at ease with the flow of the world—the parents vacation to see their children,...

It Happened on 5th Avenue (Classic Cheer)

TCM, 8 Pm Et

A hobo (Victor Moore) shares a New York mansion with a veteran (Don DeFore) and others who need a wintertime place to stay.

Holiday in Handcuffs (Sugarplum Romance)

ABC Family, 8 Pm Et

A struggling artist-waitress (Melissa Joan Hart) kidnaps a customer (Mario Lopez) to take home to her disappointed parents for Christmas.

A Flintstones Christmas Carol (Dickensian Re-Do)

ABC Family, 10 Pm Et

Fred is cast as the stingy Ebenezer in the Bedrock Community Players' production of the holiday classic, and takes on Scrooge's behavior.

What else is showing this season? See the complete Holiday TV Movie Guide: The 12 Flavors of Christmas.

And if you're wondering what to buy the movie lovers on your shopping list, check out our Holiday Gifts store.

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Link | Posted 12/10/2009 by reelz

Don Defore | Mario Lopez | Victor Moore | A Flintstones Christmas Carol | Holiday in Handcuffs...