Biography: Cecil Kellaway |
Jovial, twinkly-eyed character actor Cecil Kellaway resembled a full-grown leprechaun, so it's not surprising that he'd play such a role in the 1948 film Luck of the Irish -- and win an Oscar nomination in the bargain. Before coming to Hollywood to... more
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Cast: Spencer Tracy Sidney Poitier Katharine Hepburn
Tags: Family Drama Message Movie Comedy Drama
Length: 108min
Old-line liberals Matt and Christina Drayton (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) have raised their daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton) to think for herself and not blindly conform to the conventional. Still, they aren't prepared for the shock when...
Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965)
Cast: Bette Davis Joseph Cotten
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 150min
An unusually long pre-credits sequence establishes the roots of faded Southern belle Charlotte's (Bette Davis) insanity; she'd been witness to the dismemberment murder of her fiance (Bruce Dern) and the suicide of the murderer, her own father (Victor...
Cast: Michael Curtiz
Tags: Hagiography Drama Religious Epic Biopic
Length: 106min
This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious drama on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. After quickly passing over St. Francis' early life as the son of a wealthy cloth...
Cast: Alan Ladd Olivia de Havilland
Tags: Drama Melodrama Psychological Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 99min
A gentler but no less resourceful Alan Ladd stars in The Proud Rebel. Ladd is cast as civil war veteran John Chandler, while the star's son David (who grew up to become a powerful Hollywood producer) plays Chandler's emotionally disturbed son David....
Cast: Cecil Kellaway
Tags: Spy Comedy Fantasy Comedy Fantasy Comedy Children's Fantasy
Length: 87min
TV actor Tom Poston stars as Prof. Jonathan Jones in this early feature-film appearance, a standard comedy-fantasy oriented to the youngsters. The good professor has come into possession of "zotz," a coin that has three magical properties. It can...
Cast: Glenn Ford Roger Moore
Tags: Musical Drama Biopic Drama
Length: 106min
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. Eleanor Parker plays Ms. Farrell, while her vocal renditions, ranging from selections from Madame Butterfly to MGM's own Over the Rainbow,...
Tags: Romance
Length: 88min
Toy Tiger was a remake of the 1938 Deanna Durbin film Mad About Music. The adolescent girl of the original becomes a preteen boy in the remake, played with an excess of the cutes by Tim Hovey. A student in a private school, Hovey brags to his...
Cast: Jesse White Ethel Barrymore
Tags: Drama
Length: 80min
In this gentle, non-melodramatic drama, an elderly, wealthy widow will not leave her apartment even after her building is slated to be converted into a dormitory by the university that purchased it. She refuses to leave because she is convinced that...
Cast: Joan Crawford
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 97min
This movie is ideal for those in the mood for something steamy, overwrought and wonderfully trashy. Billed as a mystery, it centers on hapless Joan Crawford as a wealthy gambler's widow who exchanges the lights and excitement of Vegas for the...
Tags: War Drama Adventure Action War Drama Adventure Drama Romantic Adventure
Length: 98min
During the early days of East Indian independence in 1947, a native rebellion threatens a hotel full of Britishers, Europeans and Americans. Gunrunner Alan Ladd could care less about anything other than his own neck. Ladd runs up against the...
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