Claude Rains News

Alfred Hitchcock's high-rent spy romance, in romantic Rio de Janeiro, maintains an atmosphere of crackling sexual tension, with Ingrid Bergman as a loose liver wooed by a suave American agent, and propelled, against both their better wishes, into squeamish wedlock with a Nazi.

"Yankee Doodle Dandy." American movies began lighting screen fireworks even in silent days.

Judging by the number of entries in the old inbox this week, it appears we weren't as ready for the DTV conversion as I opined two weeks ago.

In recent days, members of Congress have been "shocked, shocked," to use the words and cynical meaning of Claude Rains in "Casablanca," to learn that Barack Obama might consider bringing some of "the worst of the worst" from the SuperMax cells of Guantanamo to the mainland United States .

Well, there I was, watching the Fringe season finale, merrily taking notes about how much villain David Robert Jones, wrapped in his head bandages, looked and sounded like Claude Rains in the 1933 movie The Invisible Man , and getting goosebumps when, just before a commercial break, Nina Sharp said, "William Bell is not in this world ." But then my ...

His nose has a head start, but it looks like the rest of Michael Jackson is well on its way to vanishing too -- check out his new look, inspired by Claude Rains in 1933's " The Invisible Man ." It's a thriller, right?! Permalink: http://www.tmz.com/2009/04/22/jacko-the-invisible-man-in-the-mirror/

As Bogie once announced to Claude Rains at the end of "Casablanca," "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." He wasn't talking about the new Warner Archive Collection, the first-ever DVD on demand service introduced by a major U.S. studio, but for film buffs, he might as well have been.

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Dooley Wilson, Conrad Veidt Director: Michael Curtiz Screenwriter: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch apart from making it to practically every best cinema list.

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Watching the antics in Washington does reinforce the words of Billy Shakespeare, "All the world is a stage." There is no larger one than the U.S. Congress! As the rats scurry to absolve themselves from the financial debacle enveloping our nation and especially the AIG bonus giveaway, I'm reminded of the scene in the classic movie "Casablanca" where ...

Shocked! Shocked, I tell you, over AIG! One of my favorite movies is "Casablanca," in which Claude Rains shuts down Rick's Cafe Americana by informing him "I'm shocked! Shocked to find gambling going on in here!" Then the gambling boss hands him his chips and says "Your winnings sir." Rains sheepishly replies: "Oooh, uh, yes, thank you." I was ...

GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT is fairly standard Western fare concerning gold miners versus farmers in 19th century California, but it's elevated by a strong cast and is a polished Warner Bros.

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IN "White People," a sociology report masquerading as drama, playwright J.T. Rogers seeks to expose the racism that permeates every aspect of American life - a concept about as shocking as Claude Rains' ...

Susanna Foster , the child prodigy singer who played the lead opposite Claude Rains in the 1943 version of Phantom of the Opera , has died at 84.

Radiating youth and beauty, and singing with an immaculate and fresh coloratura soprano voice in 11 Hollywood movies from 1939 to 1945, Susanna Foster, who has died aged 84, appeared to have everything.

After only a few days, Fox News does its "duty," and, of course, all the while, remaining "fair and balanced," finds reasons Americans should fear the Obama administration.

Susanna Foster, a singer and 1940s leading lady whose most famous role was the terrorized prima donna in the first talking version of "The Phantom of the Opera," died Saturday of heart failure at Lillian Booth ...

Singer/actress Susanna Foster seen in a 1941 photo. Foster died at the age of 84 on January 17, 2009.

Hey folks, Harry here again... Back in the pre-VHS days, my parents collected 16mm - it wasn't at all like the way we folks collect DVDs or even the VHS days - it was such a costly hobby that you collected what ...