“This here’s Miss Bonnie Parker. I’m Clyde Barrow. We rob banks.”
Nothing’s more fun than The Wildey’s Tuesday Night Film Series. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) will be on the big screenwhen it plays at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, IL (252 N Main St, Edwardsville, IL 62025) at 7:00pm Tuesday May 17th. Tickets are only $3 Tickets available starting at 3pm day of movie at Wildey Theatre ticket office. Cash or check only. (cash, credit cards accepted for concessions) Lobby opens at 6pm.
Faye Dunaway is Bonnie Parker and Warren Beatty is Clyde Barrow in Arthur Penn’s violent, sexually charged and deeply influential crime drama, a nostalgic look back at notorious outlaws filmed with the passion and zeal of filmmakers who were beginning to explore the boundaries of their craft. With a legendary screenplay by writers Robert Bentonand David Newman, Bonnie and Clyde features supporting performances by an exemplary cast that includes Gene Wilder, Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard and Estelle Parsons and became a pop-culture sensation. A movie about legends that became a legend itself, Bonnie and Clyde made international superstars out of its cast and influenced generations of filmmakers and audiences.
THE PARALLAX VIEW SOUNDTRACK by MICHAEL SMALL will be available Coming Friday May 7th from Cinema Paradiso Recordings on limited edition color vinyl and deluxe bundles.
“Michael Small’s score raises the spectre of all that is hidden in American history, and superimposes them in a collage that reveals itself to be the unseen hands that shape it.” – Jim O’Rourke
Cinema Paradiso Recordings is proud to announce the release of the soundtrack to the motion picture ‘The Parallax View’, on vinyl for the first time ever, this coming May 7th 2021. Based on the book by Loren Singer, The Parallax View is directed and produced by Alan J Pakula as the second installment of his Political Paranoia trilogy – alongside Klute (1971) and All the President’s Men (1976). With cinematography by Gordon Willis (The Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall) and starring Warren Beatty, this political thriller from 1974 is perhaps even more relevant today than it was back then. The legendary score by composer Michael Small is regarded as a benchmark in the sound of paranoia thrillers that dominated cinema in the 1970s, with revered film critic Pauline Kael hailing the film as essential for all fans of the genre. Now, 47 years later, the soundtrack newly remastered by Bob Weston, will finally be available to own on vinyl. The single LP, deluxe gatefold limited edition in coloured vinyl includes liner notes with two essays by Scott Bettencourt and Alexander Kaplan (of Film Score Monthly), which provide a fascinating insight into the making of the film and an analysis of the score. The CPR edition of The Parallax View soundtrack includes for the first time the infamous brainwashing scene, an influence on countless films and TV shows over the years. Notably, most recently with the Watchmen series and shows Mr Robot and Homecoming even using the music from the film. To be able to include the dialogue of the brainwashing scene – the disembodied voice from Warren Beatty’s “Parallax Test” – was fundamental to the label’s decision to release the soundtrack on vinyl. In order to include the segment, they needed authorization from Paramount and the original voice actor. With permission granted from Paramount, they scoured the film credits but gained no insight into whom the mysterious voice belonged. Researching every other name on the credits hoping to find a contact that might know who the actor was, they settled on Jon Boorstin (Alan Pakula’s assistant on The Parallax View) who they duly contacted. Jon replied immediately saying, “…And yes, I know who that actor is, who welcomes Warren so mellifluously. It was Alan Pakula. He did a temp track, and we got used to it, and never replaced it.“ Thanks to this never-before-revealed information, they were put in touch with Hannah Pakula – Alan’s widow – and obtained permission to use the dialogue which can be heard before the Parallax Test at the start of side B.
Boorstin states, “The Parallax View embodies a particularly paranoid moment for America, when assassination wounds were still fresh and the President’s bungling burglars were running him out of the White House. Michael Small’s music beautifully captures our hope, our dread, and our nostalgia for truer values. In the Parallax Test sequence, he brilliantly seduces the assassin in all of us. Watching this today, wrapped in Michael’s music, what was once wild fantasy feels at least as credible as the pronouncements of our Kool-Aid drinking Congressmen.”
he Parallax View Soundtrack will be available in limited edition red, blue or white vinyl of just 500 each. There is also a super limited edition white vinyl Abraham Lincoln ‘card stunt’ sleeve version. Limited to just 200 copies world wide, each copy comes with a removable Abraham Lincoln sticker placed over the “card stunt” depiction on the original cover. The label is also partnering with Criterion, who released the Blu-ray in North America in February, by offering a bundle to US customers of the Blu-Ray plus the limited edition Abraham Lincoln cover vinyl LP for $73 (US only). Finally, there will be 5 extra-super limited edition packages available which includes the Abraham Lincoln cover with white vinyl, a Criterion Blu-ray, and a First Edition copy of The Parallax View book by Loren Singer. One of these packages will be given away on Cinema Paradiso’s Instagram (click for details). Formats Available:
Red or blue vinyl, each limited to 500 copies – available in record stores
Special Ltd Edition Abraham Lincoln with white vinyl (RoW) : £33.99 / $48
Special Ltd Edition Abraham Lincoln with white vinyl + Criterion Blu-Ray (US only) : $79
Special Ltd Edition Abraham Lincoln with white vinyl + Criterion Blu-Ray + Book : $140
“If a man is fool enough to get into business with a woman, she ain’t going to think much of him.”
Golden Anniversaries, which is co-presented by Cinema St. Louis (CSL) and the St. Louis Public Library, features classic films celebrating their 50th anniversaries. This fourth edition of the event will highlight films from 1971.
Monday, March 8 at 7:30pm– McCABE AND MRS. MILLER
McCABE AND MRS. MILLER, the unorthodox dream Western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans. With its fascinating flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres.
Intro and discussion by Charles Taylor, author of “Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American ’70s” and former film critic for Salon.
Because in-person screenings remain problematic during the pandemic, Cinema St. Louis will hold free online conversations on the films, with people watching the films on their own but gathering virtually to discuss them.
Film critics, film academics, and filmmakers will offer introductory remarks and then participate in discussions about the films. In addition to a fine selection of St. Louis critics, Golden Anniversaries will feature several experts from elsewhere.
The conversations will be offered as free livestreams at 7:30 PM on the second Monday of every month in 2021 except November, when the St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) hopes to feature several in-person Golden Anniversaries selections.
“This here’s Miss Bonnie Parker. I’m Clyde Barrow. We rob banks.”
Fifty years ago, Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde made Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway into genuine superstars, building on the tale of a real-life crime spree that had enthralled America in the 1920s. Bonnie and Clyde smashed through almost every cinematic taboo, combining violence, sex, romance, action and comedy in groundbreaking ways.
On August 13, 50 years to the day from its original theatrical release, Bonnie and Clyde returns to theaters nationwide, presented by Fathom Events and the TCM Big Screen Classics Series. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Bonnie and Clyde won two Oscars and presaged a cultural obsession with public notoriety at any price.
Bonnie and Clyde will play in more than 600 theaters nationwide on Sunday, August 13, and Wednesday, August 16, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. each day.
For theater information, go to the Fathom Events site HERE
TCM Primetime host Ben Mankiewicz will offer newly produced commentary before and after the film — a movie whose legacy paved the way for films like Natural Born Killers, The Fast and the Furious and Baby Driver.
Its initial release, on Aug. 13, 1967, set off shock waves. In his original review, Roger Ebert called Bonnie and Clyde “the definitive film of the 1960s, showing with sadness, humor and unforgiving detail what one society had become.” The film’s poster showed the eponymous couple in the throes of death — a death that cemented their celebrity status. And if there’s anything Bonnie and Clyde, as embodied by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, truly hope for, it’s notoriety — to become known for their violent exploits.
Though it was made 50 years ago — and was itself a tale that had taken place 30 years prior to that — Bonnie and Clyde remains not just a great American film but also one that shows the seeds of our current cultural obsessions. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow would be even more at home, perhaps, in a society that glamorizes fast cars, violent lifestyles and celebrity status. (It’s not hard to imagine the title duo Instagramming their every moment or broadcasting a robbery on Facebook Live).
RULES DON’T APPLY opens as a boy-meets-girl tale set in classic Hollywood, an introduction suggesting a light-hearted romance, maybe even romantic comedy, which is how the film is being promoted. And RULES DON’T APPLY is that boy-meets-girl tale at first, until Howard Hughes shows up, played by writer/director Warren Beatty. Then the story takes a darker turn and switches from Hollywood romance with contemporary Woody Allen flavor to a Howard Hughes biopic. It is as if Beatty the actor hijacks Beatty the director’s film.
Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins), a small-town beauty queen raised with a strong Baptist faith, arrives in Hollywood with a movie contract from Howard Hughes in hand and her mother (Annette Bening) in tow. Mother and daughter are met by a driver assigned by Hughes’ RKO studio, Frank Forbes ( Alden Ehrenreich). Frank is a fairly new employee and is religious too, but the young man is ambitious and hopes to persuade Hughes to back him in a real estate development. Frank is immediately smitten with Marla but it is hands off, as studio head Hughes strictly forbids any hint of dating or romance between his contract actresses and employees.
Beatty has not made a film in a while but clearly his Hollywood connections are intact. RULES DON’T APPLY boasts an impressive supporting cast, including Alec Baldwin, Candice Bergen, Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Steve Coogan, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris, Oliver Platt and Martin Sheen. The stars fill a number of supporting roles, popping up unexpectedly, which offer adds a dash of humor and surprise.
Even the young leads alliterative names suggest an old Hollywood romantic comedy. Collins and Ehrenreich are quite appealing as the star-crossed lovers, who have more obstacles between them than just Hughes’ no fraternizing rules. In the love-struck Frank’s way are Marla’s ever-present mother, Frank’s fiancée back home, and their differing career ambitions. Their faith plays a role, but there is less about religion that you might expect.
It takes a while before Hughes makes his appearance and his absence is played for fun early in the film. But once Beatty’s Hughes is on screen, the film largely shifts its focus to him. The lightness and comic touches evaporate, and the film takes a darker turn. Director Beatty shifts from making a period Hollywood romance to a Howard Hughes biopic
This film picks up Hughes close to where THE AVIATOR leaves off. Hughes is still running his RKO movie studio and his aviation business, but he is already becoming reclusive and odd. But there is some overlap in time between the two plots, and Beatty can’t resist replaying some of the same incidents from Hughes life featured in THE AVIATOR.
At first writer/director Beatty plays Hughes as a slightly comic character but that shifts as Beatty digs into the part and the film becomes more about Hughes. Beatty’s performance as Hughes is no match for Leonardo DiCaprio’s in THE AVIATOR, and this film is no match for the excellent THE AVIATOR either, as a biopic or cinema. It feels like Beatty became distracted from his bittersweet romance tale, and couldn’t resist making it about Hughes once he bit into the role.
Warren Beatty has a reputation for inserting politics into his films since BULWORTH, and some might read in some commentary on Donald Trump based into the character’s name Marla Mabrey, which is awfully close to the name of Trump’s second wife Marla Maples, who raised a Southern Baptist. But political satire may not be the point of this film, although it is hard to figure exactly what Beatty intended with this visually pretty, star-studded mess of a film.
The film is a nostalgic visual delight, thanks to Director of Photography Caleb Deschanel. The film is lushly photographed, filled with a beautiful period look to the sets, costumes and cast. All that visual lushness also suggests Woody Allen, but RULES DON’T APPLY does not measure up to Allen’s own Hollywood romance film CAFE SOCIETY. At times, the film looks and feels so much like one of Woody Allen’s recent film, that it is a bit unsettling. But Beatty’s appearance on screen reminds us whose film this is.
It is hard to know what Beatty intended with this film but if the focus had remained on the two young leads instead of veering off towards Hughes, it might have been a more entertaining film, or at least a more focused one. Beatty’s long break from film-making perhaps played a role. The film looks beautiful, has a fine cast and the premise had potential for a charmingly romantic romp. Beatty retains skill as a director but it is hard to shake the feeling that the writer/director/star is torn between making a Woody Allen-style romance and a Howard Hughes biopic. Regardless, RULES DON’T APPLY feels like Beatty lost a chance to make a better film.
Regency Enterprises and 20th Century Fox have released a new trailer for the Romantic Dramedy RULES DON’T APPLY. Starring Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich and 15 time Academy Award nominee, Warren Beatty, RULES DON’T APPLY follows an aspiring young actress and her ambitious young driver struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire, who they work for. RULES DON’T APPLY hits theaters on November 23!
Watch the NEW trailer for RULES DON’T APPLY :
SYNOPSIS
An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty) for whom they work. It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen, songwriter, and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes’ #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes’ behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
Regency Enterprises and 20th Century Fox have released a new trailer for the Romantic Dramedy RULES DON’T APPLY, written, directed and produced by 15 time Academy Award nominee Warren Beatty.
An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire (Warren Beatty), who they work for.
It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes’ #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes’ behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
Watch the trailer now then tune in at 11:30amPT/2:30pmET for a Reddit AMA with Director Warren Beatty.
The film stars Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Haley Bennett, Candice Bergen, Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Lily Collins, Steve Coogan, Alden Ehrenreich, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris, Megan Hilty, Oliver Platt and Martin Sheen.
RULES DON’T APPLY opens in theaters everywhere November 23, 2016.
Legendary filmmaker Warren Beatty stars as Howard Hughes in RULES DON’T APPLY, which Beatty wrote, directed and produced. Photo Credit: Francois Duhamel.
Regency Enterprises and 20th Century Fox have released the trailer for the upcoming dramedy RULES DON’T APPLY, written, directed and produced by 15 time Academy Award nominee Warren Beatty (HEAVEN CAN WAIT, REDS).
Opening in theaters on November 23rd, the movie stars Alec Baldwin, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Haley Bennett, Candice Bergen, Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Lily Collins, Steve Coogan, Alden Ehrenreich, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris, Megan Hilty, Oliver Platt and Martin Sheen.
An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire (Warren Beatty), who they work for.
It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes’ #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress.
Hughes’ behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
This week’s WAMG Top 10 is having a look at all the on and off-screen couples of Hollywood. The Drew Barrymore/Justin Long romantic-comedy, GOING THE DISTANCE, comes out next Friday on September 3rd, so we thought we’d give it a go with our list of favorite “Work and Play Couples.” Let us know what you think and who you would put on the list in the comments section below.
Honorable Mention: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
Lucille Ball was a rising star under contract to RKO Studios when she was cast as the female lead in the film version of the Broadway smash TOO MANY GIRLS. Prior to the start of filming she was introduced to the young Cuban singer who had taken New York City by storm, Desi Arnaz. Stories from several sources in that RKO office said that sparks flew when they locked eyes on each other. In a little over a decade these sparks would grow into a flame that swept thru the entertainment world( and engulf the RKO studio which would become the home of Desilu). TOO MANY GIRLS did not duplicate its stage success on the big screen, but both stars would continue to star on stage and screen and eventually become man and wife. By the late 40’s, Lucy’s film career would begin to stall as did Desi’s music career. She decided to jump into radio by starring in MY FAVORITE HUSBAND alongside Richard Denning. With stories beginning to herald the advance of television, Lucy thought about taking her show into this new medium, but with her real life hubby Desi instead of Denning. The result, I LOVE LUCY, would become one of the most successful and influential TV shows of all time. Because of the shows incredible popularity, the movie studios came calling on Lucy and Desi to bring some of their magic to the silver screen . Their first film with MGM, Vincent Minnelli’s THE LONG, LONG TRAILER, proved to be a box office hit in 1953 while a follow up film, Alexander Hall’s FOREVER DARLING fizzled in 1956 even with the great James Mason cast as their guardian angel. A few years later Lucy and Desi split, and although they’re known mostly for their TV work, their movie efforts are definitely worth a look.
10. ANGELINA JOLIE AND BRAD PITT
You know that a list like this can’t be complete without the hottest it couple in Hollywood today. Starring in Mr. and Mrs. Smith sparked such chemistry between them that they began dating. Now, with six children and rumors of more, the two are going strong. They can often be seen either on outings or doing humanitarian work as a unit. Might I add, that this is one good looking family!
09. DIANE KEATON AND WOODY ALLEN
You didn’t think that we would actually leave the ANNIE HALL duo out of this, did you? Diane Keaton’s career really began with her romance, both on and off screen with Woody Allen. Together, they were in SLEEPERS, LOVE AND DEATH and PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Of course, the most famous between the two is ANNIE HALL. Despite splitting up, Diane Keaton appeared in his film INTERIORS, MANHATTAN, RADIO DAYS, and MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY, proving that ex’s can still work together.
08. ANNETTE BENING AND WARREN BEATTY
For several decades starting tin the late 50’s, the number one swinging Hollywood bachelor was Warren Beatty. During this time he was linked to some of the big screen’s most popular leading ladies: Natalie Wood, Joan Collins, Leslie Caron, Julie Christie, Diane Keaton, and many others. In 1991 Beatty was cast in the lead in Barry Levinson’s BUGSY, a bio of the notorious gangster Benjamin Siegel. Tapped to play the actress who would help lead Bugsy to his doom was Annette Benning, who had earned critical praise in performances in VALMONT, REGARDING HENRY, and THE GRIFTERS. According to several sources on the set nothing unusual was occurring between the actors. However, their scenes together in front of the camera seemed to sizzle. After BUGSY was released to much praise and great box office, the stars revealed that they were indeed a couple off screen. Then came the event that stunned Hollywood (and most of the planet) : Warren and Annette marry. The ultimate ladies man was finally domesticated. In 1994 they shared the screen again for Glen Gordon Caron’s adaptation of the classic LOVE AFFAIR. Though this version did not find success at the box office, the real life love affair has had much success( and several children).
Let’s hope that Annette and Warren will be burning up the screen again in the near future.
07. JILL IRELAND AND CHARLES BRONSON
Their meeting was rather bizarre. Bronson met Ireland on the set of THE GREAT ESCAPE while she was married to David McCallum. Bronson apparently told McCallum that he was going to marry his wife. Two years later, just that happened. The two starred in 15 movies together including LOVE AND BULLETS, FROM NOON TILL THREE, CHINO, HARD TIMES and BREAKOUT. Ireland use to joke “I’m in so many of Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him.” Now that right there is love! Their last film together was ASSASSINATION. During which, she was in the advanced stages of cancer. Ireland passes away in 1990 but will remain infamous in of one heck of a love story.
06. GOLDIE HAWN AND KURT RUSSELL
This is a couple that just will not quit! Kurt and Goldie have been together for over 25 years. Snubbing their nose at marriage, Goldie believes that their relationship is so strong because they have never tied the knot. Hawn and Russell met on the 1968 film THE ONE AND ONLY, GENUINE, ORIGINAL FAMILY BAND. In 1984 the two reconnected on SWING SHIFT and went on to film OVERBOARD in 1987, while still a couple. Now, I know that Overboard did not do that well at the box office, but it is still one of my favorite movies. KEEP IT GOING KURT AND GOLDIE!
05. JOANNE WOODWARD AND PAUL NEWMAN
Legendary “cool man” icon Paul Newman first worked with Joanne Woodward on THE LONG, HOT SUMMER (1958) about a drifter that arrives in Mississippi, targeting a wealthy family with Woodward as their daughter. This professional encounter would ultimately lead to a spark between the two Hollywood favorites in real life. This unlikely relationship would survive for fifty years, a feat of its own in tinsel town, but Newman and Woodward would also go on to work together on other films, including FROM THE TERRACE (1960) and PARIS BLUES (1961
04. LAUREN BACALL AND HUMPHREY BOGART
The relationship of Bacall and Bogart all began as a Hollywood affair off camera, while making memories as an on screen couple in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. This is where they met, the handsome and charismatic Bogey and the beautiful Bacall, together on film for the first time. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT is the film in which Bacall established her trademark “The Look” quite by accident, nervous on set, putting her chin against her chest and turning those big eyes upward. Of course Bogey would fall for Bacall. From here, Bacall and Bogey transferred their passion to the big screen for three legendary film noir titles… Howard Hawks’ THE BIG SLEEP, the unconventional DARK MASSAGE and John Huston’s KEY LARGO.
03. JANET LEIGH AND TONY CURTIS
In the 1950’s, not much was happening with real life movie couples. Gable lost Lombard in 43 and Bogie and Bacall did their final film together, KEY LARGO, in 48. There wasn’t a couple that captured movie going young people until Tony Curtis met Janet Leigh. Tony was the dark, handsome New Yorker who became the heart throb of bobby soxers, across the nation, by starring in a series of small films while under contract to Universal-International. Janet was the young movie princess that was groomed for stardom under the watchful eyes of Mr. Mayer over at MGM. The two met at a tinsel town party and immediately clicked. When Tony was loaned out to Paramount for George Pal’s big screen bio, HOUDINI in 1953 he hoped to pull some strings in order to have Janet, play Harry’s wife Bess. Their on screen chemistry helped turn director George Marshall’s movie into a box office smash. The two soon married and continued to share the screen in, THE BLACK SHIELD OF FALWORTH( 54), THE PERFECT FURLOUGH (58), and WHO WAS THAT LADY?(60). In their heyday they attracted media attention that would not be rivaled until Angelina and Brad several decades later. The marriage ended in 1962, but their movie legacy would live on thru their actress daughters: Kelly and movie scream queen, Jamie Leigh Curtis.
02. KATHARINE HEPBURN AND SPENCER TRACY
Hepburn and Tracy first graced the silver screen together in WOMAN OF THE YEAR. This is the movie that sparked a lifelong romance. Together, the pair appeared in eight other movies, including KEEPER OF THE FLAME, ADAM’S RIB, PAT AND MIKE, DESK SET, and GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER. Despite never marrying (Tracy refused to divorce his estranged wife due to his catholic beliefs), the two were very much a couple until Tracy’s death. The two hid their affair from the public to keep up appearances. They used back entrances and constantly tried to avoid the press. They are still considered one of Hollywood’s’ great romances.
01. ELIZABETH TAYLOR AND RICHARD BURTON
Altogether, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton starred in 11 movies, it’s their first one together, CLEOPATRA, that the two are known for. During filming, Taylor met Richard Burton and the two began a very public affair, which made headlines worldwide. Taylor left her husband, Eddie Fisher (who had previously left Debbie Reynolds for Taylor), and married Burton the next year. Even though some were morally outraged by their affair and the scandal did bring publicity to what was a troubled production, Dick and Liz did have their supporters who flocked to the theaters to see their love affair played out on the big screen. Many U.S. housewives wrote to the two stars in Hollywood to make a go of it¬ that’s how people rolled back in the 60’s. While Elizabeth Taylor won 2 Academy Awards for WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and BUtterfield 8 as well as the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Richard Burton was nominated for 7 Oscars, but unfortunately never won.
Here’s a list of the films that Taylor and Burton were in together:
CLEOPATRA (1963)
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966) Best Actress Oscar Win for Taylor, Best Actor Nomination for Burton
THE V.I.P.s (1963)
UNDER MILK WOOD (1972)
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (1967)
THE SANDPIPER (1965)
HAMMERSMITH IS OUT (1972)
DOCTOR FAUSTUS (1967)
DIVORCE HIS – DIVORCE HERS (1973) (TV)
THE COMEDIANS (1967)
BOOM! (1968)
Taylor had an uncredited cameo in Burton’s film ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS (1969). Another Best Actor Nomination for Burton.
Watch as our pick for the #1 movie couple ignite the screen in CLEOPATRA.
Academy award winning actor and director Warren Beatty is being sued over his 1990 feature film version of the classic comic strip, ‘Dick Tracy’.  Tribune Media Services, a unit of bankrupt newspaper publisher Tribune Co., filed in Delaware on Thursday claiming Beatty “wrongly claims” to have exclusive motion picture and television rights to the well-known police detective character.
According to court papers, Beatty bought the motion picture and television rights for Dick Tracy in 1985 and went on to act and direct the 1990 film by the same name.
Tribune Co, however, said Beatty had “made no productive use” of the rights for over a decade, causing them to revert back to Tribune. The company said the economic benefits of the property was worth potentially millions to the company and its creditors.
 In November, Beatty filed a suit against Tribune Media Services in California, claiming he had begun work on a Dick Tracy television special, which should preserve his rights to the character.
Tribune, in its suit, said that the TV special being produced solely for the purpose of preserving Beatty’s rights would not benefit either party, and that it does not believe Beatty has begun shooting the special in the manner that would be required under their agreement.
All of the lawsuit nonsense aside, do we really need Beatty stepping in for another ‘Dick Tracy’ project, even if it’s a television special? Â Personally, I’m shocked a sequel was never put into the works. Â The first film made $162 million worldwide off a $47 million production cost. Â Of course, I’m sure we’re all mere months away from someone claiming they are going to “reboot” the ‘Dick Tracy’ film franchise. Â We’ll keep you posted.
