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A boyish pop-rock singer of the late 1950s who turned to films, Avalon is best remembered for the light "beach party" movies he made in the early 60s, usually opposite Annette Funicello.

Tall, leggy and dimpled, Newmar has been a performer of stage, screen and TV who has been saved from bimbo status by her intelligent, sardonic persona.

Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice plots the perfect murder, that of his wealthy wife Margot , who is having an affair with writer Mark Halliday .

Andreas Theatre summer season begins Amanda Dyslin Hitchcock. Much more needn't be said.

An American icon, the Statue of Liberty has appeared in countless movies. It provides the classic greeting for passengers making landfall in the United States for the first time, it's been buzzed by spacecraft ...

THE TEXANS is a '30s Randolph Scott Western which has a somewhat creaky, frustrating plotline, yet nonetheless provides 93 minutes of fun entertainment.

Hitchcock's formula for cross-country hide-and-seek, tested earlier in The Thirty-Nine Steps and Young and Innocent , lends itself readily to The War Effort in this alarm-ringer about The Enemy Within. via San Diego Reader

TELL IT TO THE JUDGE is a fairly typical Hollywood divorce comedy, with Rosalind Russell and Robert Cummings as a couple who can't seem to agree on either marriage or divorce. via Laura's Miscellaneous Musings

Let's Live a Little , 1948, b&w. Richard Wallace , Hedy Lamarr, Robert Cummings, Anna Sten, Robert Shayne. via Walt at Random

“It's a great film with uniformly fantastic performances. But as a theater experience, the ensemble is much more important.”

When 'Twelve Angry Men' opened on Broadway in 2004, many people thought it was a revival.

After all, 'Twelve Angry Men' is a title that has been knocking around since the 1950s. The production directed by Scott Ellis even received a Tony nomination as best revival of a play.

There was just one problem: It wasn't a revival. 'Twelve Angry Men' had never been seen on Broadway.

The classic jury-room pressure-cooker drama by Reginald Rose was initially produced as a live TV play for Studio One in 1954 with a cast that included Robert Cummings, Franchot Tone and the fine character actor Edward Arnold. Read more

Tonight's show deserves special attention because Reign of Terror is, to our knowledge, the only noir film set during the French revolution. via Seattlest

In 1942 Alfred Hitchcock's fictionalized account of Nazi spies in America, Saboteur played to movie houses across America. via New Movies

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation , Brazilian director Cao Hamburger's story of a young boy inadvertently left in the care of a Jewish community while his parents go on a trip, is this weekend's Cinema ... via BaltimoreSun.com

Poor Robert Cummings. Accused of an awful crime he didn't commit, on the run from the law, can't catch a break from the billboard model trying to turn him in, and forced to stow away in a car full of circus ... via DigitallyOBSESSED.com

In Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream," which opens Friday, two south London brothers find that financial need and illegality don't necessarily mix. via Boston Globe

Tonight I had the pleasure of watching Alfred Hitchcock's SABOTEUR for the very first time. via Laura's Miscellaneous Musings