Barbara Stanwyck News

MOVIES New movies include "Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle" with Doris Roberts and James Van Der Beek and "12 Men of Christmas" , starring Kristin Chenoweth.

By STEWART SMITH Entertainment Writer Welcome back one and all as I continue my examination of the works of director Billy Wilder, this week taking on his classic noir "Double Indemnity." If you're just joining us, my "Catching Up On" column is a chance for me to write about the films and directors that I've yet to have much exposure to.

Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications is running a video online on the making of WGN Channel 9's holiday special "Bozo, Gar & Ray." It's almost too meta, as a making-of documentary about a making-of documentary about three fondly remembered local TV series: "Bozo's Circus," "Garfield Goose" and "Ray Rayner & Friends." Yet it's nonetheless ...

What's your favorite Christmas movie? Bet you said "It's a Wonderful Life," or "Miracle on 34th Street," or one of the umpteen versions of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Although I have a soft spot for the original "Miracle on 34th Street," my favorite Christmas movie is more obscure - at least until now.

It's going to be a very special holiday for movie fans this year as Turner Classic Movies presents the rarely seen gem Remember the Night during a December packed with holiday favorites.

Annie Oakley hit the stage in 1882, hitting her targets from all angles, and three years later joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.

Answer Man a ' Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham pass the chemistry test with flying colors in John Hindman's film debut, a wry little comedy about finding redemption through romance.

J.C. Loophole of the Shelf passed on the interesting news that TCM has started a program where they will be providing Universal movies on demand .

This year, Warner began to release a series of smaller films direct to the audience via the Warner Archive .

This is a wishlist release for many vintage TV-on-DVD fans. The Barbara Stanwyck Show was an anomalous, one-season enterprise, a collection of half-hour dramas hosted by the award-winning actress.

Clark Art held several film series for their summer exhibitions this year, and donated all the DVDs to the David & Joyce Milne Public Library.

Christmas movies are a great holiday tradition, but if you're on your umpteenth viewing of It's a Wonderful Life , you can make things a little more interesting by looking for hidden bloopers and goofs in the movie.

Mae Brunken wanted a home with a past. And in a plot with an only-in- Hollywood ending, the interior designer and set decorator found her period piece -- one with a film noir pedigree.

A look at some DVDs scheduled to be released in the weeks ahead. For the week of Oct.

It began with "Golden Boy," starring Barbara Stanwyck and William Holden. It ended with "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," an animated flick.

Something I read recently struck me as funny and brought a line from an old Western movie to mind.

Mae Brunken wanted a home with a past. The interior designer and set decorator ultimately found her period piece high in the hills of Hollywood: a 1927 Spanish Colonial Revival that starred as the home of Phyllis Dietrichson in Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity." As principal of Mae Brunken Design , Brunken likes to create spaces "around a character ...

Every week, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it.

Before The Lady Eve , there was The Mad Miss Manton . Released by RKO in 1938, this was the first teaming of Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, done about three years before Preston Sturges immortalized the pair in celluloid bronze.

Before there were Hollywood censors, there was "Baby Face" . This "pre-code" flick starring the sexy Barbara Stanwyck screens for free Thursday night at 7:30 in the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater on Mount Pony.