Movie: X: The Man with the X-Ray Ey... Aug 8, 2008
Movie: X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes: Ray Milland and Diana Van der Vlis Star in 1963 Science Fiction Film ... Ray Milland and Diana Van der Vlis Star in 1963 Science Fiction Film ... Ray Milland stars as Dr. James Xavier, with Diana Van der Vlis and John Hoyt in support. (Suite101.com)
New on DVD: The Stones, vampires and a boxer betrayed Aug 1, 2008
A real cutie, this stars Ray Milland and Jan Sterling (who more often played trollops). Serial (* * *, 1980, Paramount/Legend, R, $15): Think psychobabble, hippie cults, outdoor marriages performed by Tommy Smothers and a hottie you just met who won't join you for coffee because of the caffeine but will go to bed with you. (USA Today -- Life)
AFI Names Top Ten Mystery Films of ... Jul 26, 2008
Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings. Director Alfred Hitchcock. (Suite101.com)
Sniper Shooting Koran Hardly 'Criminal Behavior' May 24, 2008
American columnist Augusta "Gusto" Nash, played by the incomparable Claudette Colbert in the 1940 movie "Arise, My Love," is sitting in a French railway car taking her from Paris (and love interest Ray Milland) to her next assignment: Adolph Hitler's Berlin. Not surprisingly, she is boning up for her new post in the Nazi capital by reading "Mein Kampf." Turning the pages, she looks increasingly disgusted, finally becoming incensed to the point where she slams the book shut and tosses it out the... (Townhall.com)
New on DVD: It's 'Howdy Doody' time, and more May 9, 2008
This complicates her coincidental relationship with his son (Ray Milland). Complementing the snappy dialogue: costumes and art direction in the plush Paramount style. (USA Today -- Life)
Oscar Winners from the Late 1940s Mar 18, 2008
Ray Milland, in an Oscar winning performance, is an unlikable, selfish anti-hero who is not afraid to lie, steal, and manipulate people in order to get his needed drinks. Filmed in New York, excellent cinematography contrasts the real everyday world from the hazy, alcoholic prison that Milland lives in. (Suite101.com)
Reflections on the Oscars Mar 17, 2008
Thats why so often a person who wins an Academy Award -- even people as talented as Yul Brynner, Simone Signoret, Ernest Borgnine, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Martin Balsam, Donna Reed, Gloria Grahame, Dorothy Malone, David Niven, Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Cagney -- not only never win another Oscar, they never again even get nominated ... Thats why so often a person who wins an Academy Award -- even people as talented as Yul Brynner, Simone Signoret, Ernest Borgnine, Ginger Rogers, Ray... (Townhall.com)
Clandestine mistress of Bogart dies Feb 11, 2008
A hopeful starlet who had spent most of her youth in Mexico, Thompson had trained in wig-making and then established herself in Hollywood as an expert in the preparation of toupees, working for stars such as George Raft, Ray Milland and Gary Cooper. When she travelled with Bogart, she always carried a suitcase packed with 10 hairpieces, including a 'cocktail wig' and a 'shaggy wig. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Matthew McConaughey Feb 6, 2008
In this way, he has become a throwback to the old studio-system days in Hollywood, when actors like Tyrone Power, Melvyn Douglas or Ray Milland functioned as handsome, credible support for their leading ladies, said Jeanine Basinger, chairwoman of the Film Studies program at Wesleyan University, whose latest book, "The Star Machine," examines how stars were manufactured. "He's been willing to surrender himself to image, and most movie stars of today are trying not to do that," she said of... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Boxed-Set Bonanza Nov 25, 2007
" Ray Milland portrays a scientist who invents a drug that allows him to see through solid objects, with dire results. Don Rickles plays a carnival barker, and there's a terrific and potent ending. Also worth a look: "The Premature Burial" (part of Corman's Edgar Allan Poe cycle, with Milland as the lead instead of the usual Vincent Price), "The Trip" (psychedelia written by Jack Nicholson) and "The Wild Angels" (motorcycle madness with Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra and Bruce Dern). Do yourself a... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Dog bite leads to Hollywood career for former Kewaneean Oct 4, 2007
According to a search on the New York Times website, Richard English was screenwriter on 10 major films, working with John Wayne on Big Jim McLain, Edmond O Brien on 711 Ocean Drive, and Ray Milland on Copper Canyon. According to the article, he was born Richard Murray on May 18, 1910, in Stuebensville, Ohio. (Kewanee Star Courier, IL)
New DVDs: Death Proof, The Condemned Sep 18, 2007
in which killer vapors wipe out everyone older than 25; The Trip, an LSD tale with Peter Fonda and written by Jack Nicholson; the auto-racing showdown The Young Racers; the motorcycle saga The Wild Angels, with Fonda and Nancy Sinatra; Bloody Mama, a Depression-era crime adventure with Robert De Niro and Shelley Winters; A Bucket of Blood, the story of an artist who sculpts real people into acclaimed works; The Premature Burial, the tale of a medical... (MSNBC -- Movies)
JANE WYMAN 1917-2007 Sep 12, 2007
" Wyman's last major film appearance was with Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason in "How to Commit Marriage" in 1969. The remainder of her acting career was primarily in television, highlighted by her starring role on "Falcon Crest" on CBS. The role gave Wyman an opportunity to break away from her nice-girl image and play a female power broker intent on ruling over her family of winemakers at any cost. Sarah Jane Mayfield Fulks was born in St. Joseph, Mo. on Jan. 5, 1917. Her father died when she was... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jane Wyman; ex-wife of Reagan won Oscar for 'Johnny Belinda' Sep 11, 2007
Wilder cast her as the forgiving fiancee of alcoholic Ray Milland in "The Lost Weekend" (1945), one of the first movies not to play alcoholism for laughs. Years later, she told an interviewer she was ecstatic about the part: "I was conditioned to thinking of myself as a comedienne. The dramatic parts I knew I could handle well seemed to be always denied me.". (Boston Globe)
Jane Wyman, 90, star of film and tv, is dead Sep 11, 2007
Increasingly recognized as a serious actress, though, she began getting better roles in the early 1940s, then had a breakthrough in 1945, in the Billy Wilder drama "The Lost Weekend," winning praise as the patient girlfriend of an alcoholic (Ray Milland) who goes on a bender. The performance led to a series of leading roles, including the four nominated for Oscars. (International Herald Tribune)
'Falcon Crest' Actress Jane Wyman Dies at 90 Sep 11, 2007
She finally got noticed by Billy Wilder, who cast her opposite Ray Milland in the melodrama "The Lost Weekend" (1945), about a would-be writer on a boozy weekend in New York City. At last she had gotten the kind of role she had always wanted, and she didn't waste her opportunity. (Zap2it.com)
Drive-Invasion kicks off monster party Sep 1, 2007
Even more campy, "The Thing with Two Heads" stars the once great Ray Milland as a racist doctor who winds up with his head attached to Rosey Grier. The movie poster says it all: "They Transplanted a White Bigot's Head onto a Soul Brother's Body!". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
'Oz' munchkin from Ga. gets star Aug 31, 2007
After "Oz," Slover acted in a few more movies, including "The Lost Weekend" with Ray Milland. During a stage show in Florida, he became friends with Bert and Ada Slover, who owned carnival rides that they trucked from midway to midway. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
New on DVD: Miller pops in 'Factory Girl' Jul 20, 2007
There, it was Oscar-nominated Elizabeth McGovern as Nesbit, Robert Joy as Thaw and Norman Mailer as White; here, it's respectively Joan Collins, Farley Granger and Ray Milland, decent casting on paper but dominated by the d. cor. (USA Today -- Life)
New DVDs: Astronaut Farmer, Last Mimzy Jul 10, 2007
A five-disc set packs five Collins flicks from the 1950s and 60s: The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, starring Collins and Ray Milland in an illicit affair that leads to murder; Rally Round the Flag, Boys. with Collins, Newman and Joanne Woodward in a comic love triangle set against an Army plan to put a missile site in their town; Sea Wife, with Collins as a nun and Burton as an RAF officer who are among four passengers on a life raft after their ship is sunk during World War... (MSNBC -- Movies)
Playing Nancy Drew Jun 13, 2007
"These amazing actors were doing the show -- Joseph Cotten, Ray Milland, William Schallert. What an opportunity it was to work side by side with these people.". Julian describes her subsequent career as "mostly B movies," and she says she gave up the business 11 years ago to raise a family. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Broadway's Fabulous FolliesRichard Corliss on another smash season of City Center Encores! May 13, 2007
It has a quartet of burly gents punctuating a game of poker by gossiping cattily about clothes, makeup and rivals, and was put on film in the 40s revue Star Spangled Rhythm, with Fred MacMurray, Franchot Tone, Ray Milland and Lynne Overman as the feminine men. I'd like to have seen how it played, especially with the ursine Chamberlin, in 2007. (Time.com)
The week's best films on TV Apr 29, 2007
It stars Ray Milland as a man who, after two years in a mental asylum for murdering his wife, is plunged into a fresh nightmare involving spies in wartime London. A superbly atmospheric thriller. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Granger tells of bisexual past Apr 13, 2007
The Cooper estate overflowed with the town's elite: Greer Garson, Ronald Colman, Jimmy Stewart, David Niven, Ray Milland, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, Myrna Loy and many others. "Clark Gable arrived late, and it was an entrance to remember," Granger writes. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Crude: Barrels of fun to crack you up Apr 4, 2007
In 1949, the movie It Happens Every Spring chronicled the professional baseball exploits of a bookish US Midwestern science professor, played by Ray Milland, who discovers a chemical coating for baseballs that will make them impossible to hit. However, if somebody was making a movie called It Happens Every Spring in 2007, the subject would not be baseball, but the now annual spring reaming that oil consumers are once again undergoing at the hands of the world's oil interests. (Asia Times Online)
From Wagner to Borat in pictures that move Mar 9, 2007
Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey play a brother and sister who move into an old house on the English coast that, as it turns out, appears to be haunted. The script was written by Dodie Smith, most famous for her charming novels "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" and "I Capture the Castle." This ghost story includes part of Wagner's "Liebestod" from "Tristan und Isolde." The March 19 selection, "Humoresque," also includes that piece from "Tristan." This 1946 film stars John Garfield as an ambitious... (Washington Times, DC)
'Donnellys' bump off 'Studio 60' -- for now Mar 1, 2007
A: The movie was based on the notorious case of architect Stanford White (Ray Milland), chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit ( Collins) and Nesbit's husband, Harry K. Thaw (Farley Granger), who murdered White, Nesbit's lover. I could not find a current commercial release on VHS or DVD, although it appears it was released on VHS at one time. (The Miami Herald)
The best anti-Valentine's Day movies Feb 12, 2007
In an astounding display, both director Alfred Hitchcock and lead actor Ray Milland demonstrate immense dedication to their crafts. The film, about a man (Milland) planning the perfect murder of his wife (Grace Kelly) for an affair with a writer named Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings), is filmed in only a few takes, and Milland is on screen for almost the entirety of the 105-minute running time. (The Crimson White, AL)
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY: Tonopahns press on with dream Jan 12, 2007
That's a big event in the history of Tonopah, and people in Tonopah still talk about it," Rocha added. Afterward, Hughes' mental condition deteriorated, and both he and Peters vanished from public view. Except for a brief period, they lived apart. Peters appeared in 19 films with such stars as Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Ray Milland and Spencer Tracy. She left Hollywood after marrying Hughes, who was 21 years her senior. In 1970, Peters filed for divorce. It was Hughes' second and final... (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Nevada News)
Writers on film: Drunk, crazy and sexy Nov 8, 2006
Definitely nowhere near as miserably soaked as Ray Milland in Billy Wilders 1945 film The Lost Weekend. Milland winds up pawning his typewriter for more booze while Dillons Bukowski doppelganger just keeps finding cash, skips the typewriter part and writes his DT ramblings down in longhand. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Snake, rattle and roll: The creepy crawlies invade the movies Aug 14, 2006
Ray Milland is a cantankerous, wheelchair-bound millionaire who has summoned his family to his mansion (located on a private island) for his birthday. Man-made horror: Pollution, pesticides. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Bad guy Milland takes couple to ... Jul 20, 2006
DVD pick of the week Small-time New Mexico rancher Ben (Anthony Quinn) is having a hard enough time pacifying his restless ex-con missus Meg (Debra Paget) when his situation takes a serious turn for the worse with the arrival of her slimy former partner Nardo (Ray Milland). Nardo zealously guards a suitcase crammed with a cool million in stolen loot and forces Ben to take him and a more than reluctant Meg across the Mexican border. (Washington Times, DC)
New on DVD Jul 14, 2006
Paroled into marriage to humble tour guide/rancher Anthony Quinn, she's compromised in a patrolman's murder by riding in the Thunderbird of the louse (Ray Milland) who sparked her original legal woes. Memorable Mexican border locales help. (USA Today -- Life)
Outdoor film series opens season May 12, 2006
After Four Weddings comes the Hitchcock nail-biter Dial M for Murder (May 18-20) with Ray Milland, Grace Kelly; Blake Edwards' raffish Victor/Victoria (May 25-28) with Robert Preston, Julie Andrews; the Cher and Nic Cage love comedy Moonstruck (June 1-2) and the thriller Jagged Edge (June 3-4), then Cinema fave Audrey Hepburn, with Gary Cooper in Paris in Love in the Afternoon (June 8-9). Summer heats up with The Princess Bride (June 10-11), Almost Famous (June 15-16), All the President's Men... (San Diego Union-Tribune)
What do you have to say. Mr. Lincoln? Apr 25, 2006
Ray Milland won the Academy Award for best actor for "Lost Weekend," the Billy Wilder look at alcoholism. The penny was in pretty good shape, not too worn down. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
