Derek Malcolm
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Discovering Film volume 12
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focusess on Carole Lombard.
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Discovering Film volume 9
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Jack Palance.
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Discovering Film volume 10
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English
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Known as the 'first lady of the screen' Bette Davis' is one of the Hollywood greats. Her striking presence, paved the way for future female leads. As her career developed Bette was desperate for a great film role, and unlike other starlets she didn't mind playing unsympathetic characters, the following year she was loaned out to RKO to appear in Of Human Bondage. Life magazine declared that it was "probably the best performance ever recorded on the...
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Discovering Film volume 3
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English
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Lauren Bacall is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.
She first emerged as leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have And Have Not (1944) and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in Bogart movies The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948), as well as a comedienne in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Designing Woman...
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Discovering Film volume 9
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Gregory Peck.
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Discovering Film volume 8
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English
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Grant (famously born Archibald Alexander Leach) was an English-born American film and stage actor.
Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor and "dashing good looks",
This programme shows how Grant was known for both comedic and dramatic roles including The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn (1938), Gunga Din (1939), The Philadelphia Story again with Hepburn (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Arsenic and Old Lace...
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Discovering Film volume 5
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English
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Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), a World War II drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious (1946),...
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Discovering Film volume 12
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English
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Rod Steiger was an Academy Award-winning actor known for his roles in On the Waterfront and In the Heat of the Night.
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Discovering Film volume 11
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Faye Dunaway
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Discovering Film volume 9
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Edward G. Robinson.
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Discovering Film volume 6
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English
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His dance routine to the title song in Singin' in the Rain is one of the most iconic in Hollywood history. Gene Kelly's career was powered by his infectious charisma and gift for turning anything into his dance partner - from a mop in For Me And My Girl, to an animated mouse in Anchors Aweigh, to his own reflection in Cover Girl. Kelly's tour de force performance in An American In Paris helped secure him an Honorary Academy Award for outstanding work...
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Discovering Film volume 6
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on John Wayne.
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Discovering Film volume 4
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Joan Crawford.
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Discovering Film volume 10
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English
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Fred Astaire born in 1899 was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer, musician and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is famous for his on screen partnership with fellow actress and dancer Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
It is said by Gene Kelly...
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Discovering Film volume 4
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Doris Day.
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Discovering Film volume 1
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Paul Newman.
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Discovering Film volume 3
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Alec Guiness.
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Discovering Film volume 1
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Robert Redford.
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Discovering Film volume 12
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Alain Delon.
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Discovering Film volume 10
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Richard Widmark.