Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Oct 3, 2008
Perhaps the debonair spirit of the original Nick (William Powell) and Nora (Myrna Loy) works subliminally through the considerable charm of its two leads. Nick is played by Michael Cera, the gangly fumbler from Juno (as well as Superbad and the television series Arrested Development). (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
In great movies, it's no mystery the butler did it Aug 21, 2008
William Powell stars as the gallant Godfrey, and the always enchanting Carole Lombard is his employer. SUNSET BLVD. (1950): Norma Desmond, an actress once famous and beloved, has retreated from the world. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Proud Jamaica Aug 16, 2008
Page last updated at 22:44 GMT, Friday, 15 August 2008 23:44 UK. By Nick Davis BBC News, Jamaica. (BBC News)
Political humor, satire not on purpose Aug 1, 2008
Romantic comedies were once the province of William Powell and Myrna Loy, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, Spenser Tracy and Katherine Hepburn adults who talked smart in a way that put a smile on your face. You grew up wanting to be like those people. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
New Role For The Ziegfeld Jul 20, 2008
One of the city's few remaining single-screen movie houses, it is named for Florenz Ziegfeld, the flamboyant Broadway impresario portrayed by William Powell in the 1936 Hollywood musical "The Great Ziegfeld.". The theater has 1,100 seats, about the same number as Alice Tully. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Academy Awards Neglected Actresses Jul 14, 2008
After often being miscast as exotic femme fatales in the 1920s and early 1930s, Loy went on to find her niche playing urbane, sophisticated women, as in the in the popular Thin Man series opposite William Powell, and later in light comedies such as co-starring with Cary Grant in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948). Although usually not regarded as a dramatic actress, she gave strong performances as the wife of Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and in The Red Pony (1949)... (Suite101.com)
Jurassic Park’ to kick off downtown movie series Jun 14, 2008
July 11: Life with Father, starring William Powell and Elizabeth Taylor. July 25: War of the Worlds, starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, the 1953 version. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Movie: Mister Roberts (1955) May 20, 2008
With Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon, James Cagney, William Powell, Ward Bond ... g.) Doug Roberts, with Jack Lemmon, James Cagney, William Powell, Ward Bond and Betsy Palmer in seagoing support ... Also on board were James Cagney (Captain Morton), William Powell (Doc), Jack Lemmon (Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver), Betsy Palmer (Lt. (Suite101.com)
Maybe it takes an elitist May 9, 2008
I went to college so I could become someone else, preferably Melvyn Douglas or William Powell, the guy in the tuxedo who was always talking on a white telephone, which the waiter had brought to his table. You don't get there by playing a mean hand of pinochle. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
THE EVOLUTION OF SEX SYMBOLS Apr 13, 2008
Examples: Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, William Powell. The girl next door. (Florida Times-Union)
Local movie buffs create their 'dream' festivals Apr 10, 2008
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George Clooney's 'Leatherheads': A jazz-age football story fails to make its goals Apr 3, 2008
The actors, writers and directors who made those old studio whirligigs spin - Clark Gable and Carole Lombard; William Powell and Myrna Loy; Preston Sturges and Frank Capra and all the rest - made it look easy. By contrast, "Leatherheads," the third and by a wide margin the weakest movie directed by George Clooney, looks to have been nearly as hard to make as it is to watch. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Old school things Mar 5, 2008
Invented by William Powell Lear of LearJet fame, they gained notoriety in the 1960s and '70s. In 1966, all Fords offered 8-track players in the dash. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Oscar Winner Luise Rainer Feb 24, 2008
The following year, partly on the recommendation of Escapade co-star, William Powell, and M-G-M producer Irving Thalberg, she was given the role of Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld. For this, her second American movie, Rainer received the Oscar for Best Actress. (Suite101.com)
Gift ideas to surprise your valentine Feb 11, 2008
For your man"The Complete Thin Man Collection" on DVD, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as husband and wife sleuths (about $50)"It'll teach them about marriage. The series is full of happiness and love.". Chanel Cyrus, 19, employeeSugar Heaven218 Newbury St.(617) 266-6969. (Northeastern News, MA)
* 'Scoop' shares appropriate love Oct 26, 2007
Allen's invocation of the Thin Man films in an interview makes sense, even if he's no William Powell and Johansson is certainly no Myrna Loy. Scoop was made by someone who understands that what makes the Thin Man series enduring isn't whodunit and why, but the way Nick and Nora look at each other as they sip their martinis, Asta nipping at their heels. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
One Million Dollar Auction of Original Glamour Photographs of Hollywood's Sexy Stars of the 1920s & 1930s Oct 25, 2007
On November 7 and 8, Profiles in History, the world's leading dealer of authentic Hollywood artifacts presents over 1,000 fine art photographs featuring history's most legendary actresses including Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, Louise Brooks, Norma Shearer and Thelma Todd and actors including Clark Gable, Lon Chaney, Sr., Gary Cooper, John Barrymore and William Powell, to name a few. These classic photographs -- the greatest... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Review: 'Gone Baby Gone' is good, very good Oct 21, 2007
Still, he's no Bogart (or William Powell, for that matter). If he shoots somebody, he worries about it afterwards. (CNN -- Showbiz)
WonderWorks Introduces iPod Movies, Audiobooks on DVD-ROM Oct 20, 2007
The new collections feature the films of Cary Grant, Danny Kaye, Shirley Temple, and William Powell among others, plus the writings of Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Jack London, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lewis Carroll and L. Frank Baum. As the first to deliver iPod content on disk, Mobile Matinee represents a departure from conventional downloading. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The week's best films Oct 6, 2007
William Powell and Myrna Loy's maiden outing as married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles. In this adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's classic thriller, the snappy couple are settling down for a peaceful Christmas when they are led off on the trail of a missing inventor. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Why Katie and Tom leave us cold Aug 17, 2007
Myrna Loy and William Powell were great friends but never lovers; their "chemistry" is not primarily sexual, but is a kind of gestalt collaborative energy that makes them a joy to watch, and helped them bring out the best in each other. In a similar vein, Doris Day's and Rock Hudson's fondness for each other meant they could produce an erotic frisson that they obviously did not actually feel. (The Age, Australia)
Tower Bar: Glamour under the stars Aug 15, 2007
On second look, no. But he is (obviously) an actor with a William Powell profile, wearing a precisely positioned fedora, with a striped shirt, worn tails out, which would have horrified Nick Charles. And instead of a proper martini, this 21st century incarnation of the dapper detective is sipping a glass of wine. (Los Angeles Times)
What Is Cool? Aug 12, 2007
We know this because we can look at William Powell and Brad Pitt, John Barrymore and Mick Jagger, Frank Sinatra and Clooney, Bobby Kennedy and Kirk Douglas, Steve McQueen and Prince, Eminem and Montgomery Clift and realize that they all partake of cool. They're not interchangeable, and yet if we take them out of their respective eras, change their haircuts and give them a different suit, they'd probably hold up. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Esther Williams splashes it up again, this time on DVD Aug 4, 2007
The set's second film, "Easy to Wed" (1946), is described as "gal-amorous," "laughterrific" and "songsational," but it's actually a lackluster remake of the 1936 screwball comedy "Libeled Lady," which starred William Powell, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy. Whatever their talents, the remake's stars -- Williams, Keenan Wynn, Van Johnson and Lucille Ball -- can't compete with that quartet. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Super summer? Apr 21, 2007
William Powell and Myrna Loy. "Aliens" (1986). (Cape Cod Times, MA)
Six lost films to be seen on TV Apr 4, 2007
TCM will air the vintage collection, which includes the 1933 William Powell melodrama "Double Harness" as well as "Rafter Romance," "One Man's Journey," "Stingaree," "Living on Love" and "A Man to Remember," on April 4 and April 11 ... "To be able to have a William Powell we have never seen before and an Irene Dunne and a Ginger Rogers ... " says TCM host and film historian Robert Osborne. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Pour on the prestige Mar 21, 2007
" he asks. Aqua Lounge's bottle service was booked solid on New Year's Eve, and at Bar 9 booths overflow on the weekends with groups of people sharing Grey Goose or Crown Royal. Across the street at Bent Lounge, tables fill up as early as Tuesday. The visibility of the liquor and its elegantly packaged extras, combined with the easy access, can create the feeling of an entourage, of influence, of celebrity on an average Saturday night, Safian says. "It does make you feel like you look cool," he... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Evil '24' Dad's Father's Footsteps Feb 22, 2007
"Double Harness" stars William Powell (of "The Thin Man" fame) as the playboy heir to a San Francisco shipping fortune who is tricked into marrying a financially hard-pressed socialite (the patrician beauty Ann Harding) he's been sleeping with. She then tries to win him over by saving his business from bankruptcy during the Depression. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Obituaries, Sunday, February 11, 2007 Feb 13, 2007
to the late William Powell and Beulah Dale Rodgers Wade. She graduated from Peabody College in Nashville in 1928. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Silent siren out of the box (Gary Arnold) Feb 8, 2007
A turning point came after she had completed "The Canary Murder Case" with William Powell. It had been shot silent, but Paramount was preoccupied with the transition from silents to talkies. (Washington Times, DC)
