Top Entertainment Stories Alec Guinness Film Festival planned Aug 25, 2008
The movies include: Sept. 4 showing of Great Expectations (1946); Sept. 12 showing of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949); Sept. 18 showing of Man in the White Suit and the Sept. 25 showing of The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). The four movies will each be screened at 1:30 p.m. in the Jefferson City library's art gallery. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Minogue tops showbiz honours list Dec 29, 2007
Veteran cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, 94, whose work ranges from 1949 Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets to 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, is made an OBE.. On television, BBC News presenter George Alagiah and former Grandstand host Des Lynam also become OBEs. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
10 Classic Movies for Christmas Nov 21, 2007
4) Kind Hearts And Coronets ... Kind Hearts and Coronets is an comedy that's just the thing for film fans to savour, especially if peace and goodwill to all is wearing a little thin. (Suite101.com)
Fabulous 50s Oct 10, 2007
And when people suggest that the 1950s was a stuffy and sterile time, I wonder what on earth they mean - Look Back in Anger on the Royal Court stage, Ealing Studios going great guns with films such as Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Lavender Hill Mob; Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim, Iris Murdoch's Under the Net and William Golding's Lord of the Flies all reviewed in one day in the Daily Telegraph. We worried, I suppose, about Korea and Suez and the atom bomb; but much of what the young felt, I fear,... (Guardian Unlimited)
Ealing revivalCan the classic UK studio re-invent itself with new films? Jul 27, 2007
Classics including "Kind Hearts and Coronets", "Whisky Galore", "Passport to Pimlico" and the Oscar-winning "Lavender Hill Mob" ensured that Ealing studios represented a high water mark in British film making. Sold to the BBC. (BBC News -- UK)
Gold-plated memories| Jul 22, 2007
"It was just as valid as anything he did, from 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949) to 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957); he had a vast range. "To me, it's just as valuable. My friends in the Royal Shakespeare Company slightly felt it an insignificance. (iAfrica.com)
The last laugh: your favourite 50 Jul 22, 2007
Kind Hearts and Coronets Dir. Robert Hamer, 1949. (Guardian Unlimited)
The week's best films on TV Jul 9, 2007
Delicious vintage comedy from the director of Kind Hearts And Coronets. It stars the terminally naive Ian Carmichael as a much too decent chap who joins Alastair Sim's College of Lifemanship to learn how to turn the tables on his oppressors: John Le Mesurier the snooty waiter, Dennis Price and Peter Jones the secondhand car swindlers, and worst of all, tennis cheat Terry-Thomas. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Murder, most foul in 'Hot Fuzz' Apr 20, 2007
Of course, the title of this British comedy indicates that we will not get another Kind Hearts and Coronets. And the Brits do have a tradition of broad comedy, as anyone can attest who knows of Benny Hill or the old Carry On films. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Film Roundup Feb 25, 2007
Yet as bad as the others were, nothing could have prepared us for this film, which makes "The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps" look like Alec Guinness' "Kind Hearts and Coronets." Rated PG-13. "Letters From Iwo Jima"*** 1/2. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
'NORBIT' (No stars) Feb 18, 2007
Yet as bad as the others were, nothing could have prepared us for this film, which makes "The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps" look like Alec Guinness' "Kind Hearts and Coronets.". Here, he plays the title character, a goofy weakling who grew up in an orphanage and is used to letting people push him around. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
'Poppins' a legit hit Nov 21, 2006
"Kind Hearts and Coronets". Mr. Hurlot's Holiday"..."Loves of a Blonde"..."The Lady Vanishes"...La Strada". (Variety)
School for Scoundrels: What a loser Sep 29, 2006
by Robert Hamer, whose credits inlude the 1949 classic Kind Hearts and Coronets. The new script is credited to Phillips, the Brooklyn-born director of Road Trip and Starsky , and his co-writer Scot Armstrong. (Boston Herald)
‘'School for Scoundrels'’ Sep 29, 2006
P" (Thornton), an unorthodox motivational counselor who turns losers into lovers and fainters into butt-kickers. ("Tuition" is $5,000 in cash, due the first day of class.) The training scenes -- enhanced by the deadpan comedy of Roger's inept (and beautifully cast) classmates and Dr. P's burly associate (Michael Clarke Duncan) -- are very funny. Director Tod ("Old School") Phillips' movie loses interest, however, the more it focuses on a plot that finds Dr. P betraying his student by hitting on... (The Commercial Appeal, TN)
Fall movie preview Sep 11, 2006
KEEPING MUM (SEPT. 29): Rowan Atkinson is a twitsy vicar whose wife strays off the path and whose housekeeper is a mischief wiz, in a British comedy with shadings of Kind Hearts and Coronets. Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith and (surprise) Patrick Swayze. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Entertainment)
"Kinky Boots," Apr 16, 2006
These movies are clearly intended to be modern versions of the great postwar pictures like "The Lavender Hill Mob," "Kind Hearts and Coronets" and, my personal favorite, "Whisky Galore!" about a bunch of thirsty Scottish islanders who find ingenious ways to sneak massive amounts of scotch off a wrecked ship. The Ealing comedies are light entertainment, all right. (Salon)
John Profumo Mar 11, 2006
He was then a promising Secretary of State for War, married to the actress Valerie Hobson, star of the film Kind Hearts and Coronets and one of Britain's leading actresses of stage and screen in the 1940s and 1950s. On June 5 1963 he resigned after admitting that he had lied to Parliament about his relationship with Christine Keeler, a call-girl who had been - separately - seeing the Russian naval attach; and spy, Yevgeny Ivanov. (Telegraph.co.uk)
End of an affair that destroyed a government Mar 11, 2006
Handsome, well spoken and well connected, he married Valerie Hobson, a British actress popular in Ealing comedies such as Kind Hearts and Coronets, in 1954. After a number of sub-cabinet roles he was appointed secretary of state for war in 1960, charged with the task of boosting enlistment after the end of National Service. (Scotsman)
John Profumo, 91; Prominent Politician's Affair With a Call Girl Scandalized Britain Mar 11, 2006
His wife, actress Valerie Hobson, best known for her role in "Kind Hearts and Coronets," stood staunchly by his side. In the aftermath, Ward was charged and convicted of living off the immoral earnings of Keeler and her friend, Mandy Rice-Davies. (Los Angeles Times)
John Profumo dies, aged 91 Mar 10, 2006
After distinguished service during the Second World War he boosted his personal charisma still further by marrying the film actress Valerie Hobson, star of Ealing comedies such as Kind Hearts and Coronets. Harold Macmillan made him Secretary of State for War in July 1960, with a brief to boost Army recruitment following the end of conscription. (Times Online)
Kind Hearts and Coronets Mar 7, 2006
Last Updated March 6, 2006 11:48PM PT. 28; Double disc: $39. (Variety)
