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TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Desert Warfare

By Steven Mears
August 5, 2016
A handful of dust: on John Ford’s The Lost Patrol and Zoltán Korda’s The Four Feathers

TCM Diary: Tim Holt

By Farran Smith Nehme
August 1, 2016
High in the saddle: the Western stalwart left his mark on The Magnificent Ambersons, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Fifth Avenue Girl, but kept coming back home

TCM Diary: Hedda Hopper, Character Actor

By Farran Smith Nehme
July 6, 2016
Bigmouth strikes again: the short-lived film career of Hollywood's first lady of gossip

TCM Diary: Old Men, New Westerns

By Steven Mears
July 1, 2016
Long riders: on the '70s revisionism of Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Blake Edwards, and John Huston

TCM Diary: Olivia de Havilland

By Steven Mears
July 1, 2016
In honor of the actor's 100th birthday, a look back at her complex interpretations of vulnerable women

TCM Diary: Robert Ryan

By Steven Mears
June 8, 2016
One man alone: exploring the actor's embattled strength in God’s Little Acre, About Mrs. Leslie, and more

TCM Diary: The Tender Trap (1955)

By Steven Mears
June 1, 2016
Band of gold: as part of our new collaboration with Turner Classic Movies, an appreciation of Frank Sinatra's comedy of marriage

TCM Diary: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)

By Steven Mears
June 1, 2016
Stage to screen: Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s bruising family drama gives Katharine Hepburn one of her richest roles