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Grace Kelly with Leora Dana and Kurt Kasznar at 11th Golden Globe Awards on January 11, 1954 when Grace won Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in Mogambo (1953).

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3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves, 1957)    

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Leora Dana (New York City, New York, 1/04/1923-New York City, New York, 13/12/1983).

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From the Golden Age of Television

The Arena   -  CBS  -  April 9, 1956

A presentation of Westinghouse Studio One. 

Drama

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Wendell Corey as Sen. James Norton

Chester Morris as Jack Feeney

John Cromwell as Sen. Harvey Rogers

Leora Dana as Margaret Norton

Edgar Stehli as former Sen. Frank Norton

Peter Turgeon as Humphreys

Frances Sternhagen as Betty

Harry Holcombe as Sen. Smithson

Betty Furness presents Westinghouse appliances in breaks after each of the acts.

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Leora Dana and Van Heflin in 3:10 TO YUMA ('57).

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3:10 to Yuma 1957

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TORA! TORA! TORA! Review - ***

TORA! TORA! TORA! Review – ***

I’ve seen Tora! Tora! Tora! any number of times over the years, first on a videotape my dad recorded off the air, then on DVD. It might’ve seemed an odd film for a young boy to relish watching—it is rated G, but that meant something rather different in 1970—but my lifelong interest in history, coupled with the film’s straightforward narrative and lack of traditional dramatizations (you’ll find no…

[almanyalilar]

The Boston Strangler – Boston Canavarı

The Boston Strangler – Boston Canavarı

The Boston Strangler – Boston Canavarı

Sinema sanatların en özgürüdür denildiğinde boş laf edilmiş olmaz. İnsanların katledilmesini, kurbanlardan çok katilin ruh halinin bu denli ustaca yansıtılması, neredeyse öldürülen kadınlara değil de cani canavara acınması ancak sinemada mümkün olabilir. Daha çok Hollywood’da demek yanlış olmaz. İster kızıp öfkelenelim, ister sanatın gücü ve hoşgörü sınırı…

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Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore in CHANGE OF HABIT (1961)

Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore in CHANGE OF HABIT (1961)

I’ve dedicated a handful of posts on this blog to Elvis Presley and may well have said, “this movie is special to me” each time. But this time I really mean it. Again. This time I am referring to William A. Graham‘s Change of Habit (1969), a movie that is undeservedly overlooked, but it shouldn’t be. Not only did Change of Habit allow Elvis a rare opportunity to tackle a dramatic part, it also…

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3:10 to Yuma (1957)

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Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958) Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates, Leora Dana, Betty Lou Keim, Larry Gates. Screenplay: John Patrick, Arthur Sheekman, based on a novel by James Jones. Cinematography: William H. Daniels. Art direction: William A. Horning, Urie McCleary. Film editing: Adrienne Fazan. Music: Elmer Bernstein. Like Douglas Sirk, Vincente Minnelli had a special touch with the movie melodrama, taking its often objectively silly elements seriously enough that you can actually believe in them. The James Jones novel on which the screenplay for Some Came Running was based is one of those semi-autobiographical books that writers seem to need to get out of their systems, but adapting it meant challenging the Production Code strictures, particularly on sex, at almost every turn. So the characters in the film are only as believable as the actors can make them. There's a lot of shorthand in the film about the relationships between Dave Hirsh (Frank Sinatra) and the two women in his life, the "schoolteacher" Gwen French (Martha Hyer) and the "floozie" Ginnie Moorehead (Shirley MacLaine). It's not immediately clear why Dave falls in love so swiftly with Gwen, who seems to want to mentor him as a writer more than she does to sleep with him, or why he stays connected with the illiterate and rattle-brained Ginnie, to the extent of marrying her on the rebound from Gwen. Fortunately, all three actors are adept at pulling characters out of the script, where they don't seem to have been fully written. Dean Martin was just beginning to show that he could act -- Howard Hawks would complete the process the following year with Rio Bravo -- and Minnelli helped give his career a boost by casting him as the alcoholic gambler Bama Dillert. And Arthur Kennedy completes the ensemble as Dave's go-getter older brother, Frank. Minnelli makes the most of these colorful performers, to the extent that MacLaine, Kennedy, and Hyer all received Oscar nominations. But he's also adept, as he would show in 1960 with Home From the Hill, at taking a real small town location and bringing it to full life, especially in the climactic scene that takes place in the carnival celebrating the town's centennial. The location gives the film a substance and reality that the script never quite supplies.

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Leora Dana-Arthur Kennedy "Como un torrente" (Some came running) 1958, de Vincente Minnelli.

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Female Main Characters (FMC) in the Theodora Taylor Universe

Organized by first name.

Aa – Aa – Aa

Alisha Ataneq

Allison "Allie" Snow

Amber Reynolds / Bella Peretti

Amira Wylie

Anitra Dunhill / Nitra Mello

Bb – Bb – Bb

Bernice "Red" Daniels

Billie

Cc – Cc – Cc

Cera Winslow

Chloe Adams

Countess "Tess" Malloy

Cynda

Dd – Dd – Dd

Dana

Dawn Kingston

Ee – Ee – Ee

Elizabeth “Elle” Garrett

Eva Janelle St. James

Ff – Ff – Ff

Fensa Greenwolf

Gg – Gg – Gg

Gina "Goldie" Bryant

Hh – Hh – Hh

Halle Parkswolf

Jj – Jj – Jj

Janelle Ataneq

Jasmine Hayes

Josie Marie Witherspoon

June Mason → June Fairgood

Kk – Kk – Kk

Kayla Edwards → Kayla Edwards

Kira Garrett

Krista Kringle / Jane Zakaria

Kristal Kringle / Dorinda "Dorie" Green

Kristmas "Krissy" July

Kyra Goode → Kyra Fairgood

Ll – Ll – Ll

Layla Erin Matthews

Layla Rustanov

Leora Hamilton

Lilliana "Lilli" Tucker / Ana Granger

Lydia Carrington → Skye Nelson

Mm – Mm – Mm

Magnolia "Maggie" Nashoba

Marian Thompson

Marisol "Sola" Carillo

Merry Winters

Mika Hayes

Millicent "Milly" Odoom

Myrna

Nn – Nn – Nn

Naima Almonte

Naomi Hamilton

Noelle Winters

Nova

Nyla Weathers

Oo – Oo – Oo

Ola Greenwolf

Olivia Glendaver

Pp – Pp – Pp

Princess "Prin" Jones

Prudence "Pru" Washington → Prudence "Pru" Washington

Rr – Rr – Rr

Reina Smith

Rhonda

Roxxanne "Roxxy" Weathers / Roxxy RoxX

Ss – Ss – Ss

Sadie

Salena "Lena" Kumar

Samantha "Sam" McKinley

Sharon / Henrietta "Hen" Mays

Skye Nelson ← Lydia Carrington

Stephanie Perreault / Persephone "Persy"

Sunny Johnson → Sunny Johnson

Suzie

Sylvia "Sylvie" Pinnock

Tt – Tt – Tt

Talia Marie Jeffries

Taneisha "Neisha" Winters

Tara Hamilton

Tasha Cofi / Lacey Winters / Leslie

Thelxiope "Thel" Okeanos / Sirena Gale

Tiara "Tee" Greenwolf

Tuuluuwag "Tu" Ataneq

Ww – Ww – Ww

Willa Harper

Wilma Greenwolf → Wilma Ataneq

Zz – Zz – Zz

Zinnia “Zin” Njeri

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Lisa Cleans Out Her DVR: Change of Habit (dir by William A. Graham)

Lisa Cleans Out Her DVR: Change of Habit (dir by William A. Graham)

(Lisa is currently in the process of cleaning out her DVR!  How long is it going to take?  Some would say forever but, here at the Shattered Lens, we’re hoping that she might have it all done by August.  Anyway, she recorded the 1969 film Change of Habit off of Starz on March 20th!) It’s Elvis vs. God for the heart of Mary Tyler Moore! (Okay, so that may be a little bit glib on my part but,…