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Spartacus
Film Review August 30, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: The summer began with Gladiator, and thus will it end. Kubrick’s gladiator film is the pinnacle of sword-and-sandal epics, and who isn’t a sucker for stories about rebellious slaves. This...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Nina Foch, Herbert Lom, John Ireland and Woody Strode..."
Imitation of Life
Film Review June 22, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: In this second Hollywood remake of the Fannie Hurst sob story, Lana Turner and Juanita Moore each play husbandless women in New York raising daughters on their own. One woman...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Douglas Sirk. Starring: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Susan Kohner, Sandra Dee and Juanita Moore..."
Douglas Sirk Film Series Schedule
Screens Story May 12, 2000
"...with John Gavin, Lilo Pulver...."
Video Reviews
Screens Review February 25, 2000
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
"...Back Street D: David Miller (1961); with Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Reginald Gardiner, Natalie Schaefer. A typically lush Ross Hunter/Fanny Hurst gusher with Miss Hayward as Rae Smith, an aspiring young fashion designer who keeps coincidentally running into Captain Paul Saxon, played by the Ross Hunter staple, Gavin, also known as the poor man's Rock Hudson. He rescues her from sexual harassment at a job interview, and she is eternally grateful..."
TV Eye
Screens Column August 1, 1997
by Margaret Moser
"...This week's recommended B&W film is
a real weeper: Imitation of Life (8/3, 1:15pm, AMC), starring Lana Turner,
Juanita Moore, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda, and Troy Donohue.
That is, if you can get over how ghastly the plot is. This potboiler was very
controversial in its day, for it's now-dated plot about the interracial friendship between
two widows and their daughters, but it's presented on such a grandiose and corny
scale it's hard to take seriously..."
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