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Ghosts in the Movies
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained ...serious study of haunting phenomena. Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) move into a home...years. Soon, they discover that the house is haunted. Milland and Hussey portray two ordinary, but intelligent and... Read more
Billy Wilder
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Brackett returned to cowrite The Lost Weekend, which starred Ray Milland as an alcoholic who hits bottom. For this film, Wilder...Screenplay. The film also was named Best Picture and Milland Best Actor. However, around this time Wilder's marriage... Read more

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Milland, Ray
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers MILLAND, Ray Born: Reginald Truscott-Jones in Neath...series Meet Mr. McNutley , later renamed The Ray Milland Show , 1954 – 55; 1954 —...Ruggles) (as Charles Gray/Granville) (as Ray Milland) 1935 Four Hours to Kill (Leisen) (as Carl... Read more
The Lost Weekend
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Miklos Rozsa, Guiseppe Verdi. Cast: Ray Milland ( Don Birnam ); Jane Wyman ( Helen...London), Winter 1945 – 46. Milland, Ray, "The Role I Liked Best," in Saturday...contains the finest performance which Ray Milland had so far given in his career... Read more
O'Hara, Maureen
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Britannia Mews ) (Negulesco) (as Adelaide Culver); A Woman's Secret (Ray) (as Marian Washburn); Father Was a Fullback (Stahl) (as Elizabeth...Karen Harrison); Lady Godiva (Lubin) (title role) 1956 Lisbon (Milland) (as Sylvia Merrill); Everything but the Truth (Hopper) (as... Read more
Pan, Hermes
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...appear on screen performing his own dance steps — in Moon over Miami , My Gal Sal , and with Lana Turner and Ray Milland, in A Life of Her Own . He also was able to choreograph off the dance floor onto ice for Sonja Heine and in water for... Read more

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A Perfect Murder.
Magazine article from: National Review; 7/20/1998; ; 668 words ; ...Murder; even so, Frederick Knott's adaptation of his stage thriller moved along with elegance and panache, at least from Ray Milland and John Williams, and cool beauty from Grace Kelly. Drawing-room murder with cold, literate, gentlemanly skulduggery... Read more
Christian Marclay at Paula Cooper.(exhibition of art video "Telephones")(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 6/1/2000; ; 383 words ; ...certain anxiety. Cut to a succession of others, many of whom are immediately recognizable--Cary Grant, Tippi Hedren, Ray Milland, Meg Ryan, Humphrey Bogart--dialing or stabbing Touch-Tones in various states of expectation. Drawn into this anticipatory... Read more
Oscar = death? The heroes of Boys Don't Cry, Philadelphia, and Kiss of the Spider Woman won Oscars for their actors but were doomed by the final reel. Why is it that when it comes to queer characters ...(Hollywood Issue)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 3/2/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...physically challenged, addicted, up-against-it types, or combinations thereof. In the 1940s classic The Lost Weekend, Ray Milland copped the Best Actor trophy for battling booze and such alcohol-fueled hallucinations as a rubber bat on strings. More... Read more
Mix-master: working in a range of mediums, including video, collage, painting and sculpture, Christian Marclay applies a musician's sensibility to mostly found materials--with startling results.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...own. These linked-together snippets of scenes involve innumerable well-known actors such as Cary Grant, Tippi Hedren, Ray Milland, Humphrey Bogart and Meg Ryan, who dial, pick up the receiver, converse, react, say good-bye and hang up. In doing so... Read more
Murder and Mayhem: Great Scores from Hollywood's Golden Age. William T. Stromberg, Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Marco Polo 8.225132.
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 6/1/2000; ; 294 words ; ...Young. Of the three works, it is by far Young's The Uninvited that is most memorable. The Uninvited, made in 1944, stars Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey as a brother and sister who begin seeing things when they unwittingly move into a haunted house on the... Read more
Noir lite.(Film "Out of Time")(Movie Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 11/15/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Ann's house is torched, and her corpse and her husband's turn up inside. Matt realizes he's the prime suspect. Like Ray Milland in the 1948 suspense film The Big Clock (or Kevin Costner in its 1987 remake No Way Out), he has to tap dance furiously... Read more
Back to the Bates Motel.(1998 remake of 'Psycho')(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 12/8/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Douglas, which was a reinterpretation of Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder with Grace Kelly and Ray Milland. Christopher Reeve directed and starred in a TV version of Rear Window for ABC, which was scheduled to air November... Read more
The new Edwardianism. (interview with actor Edward Norton)(Cover Story)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...twenty-seven, he is an actor capable of being as electrifyingly intense as the young De Niro - or as urbane as a young Ray Milland. The De Niro comparison is one I feel confident about, having seen Norton's screen test for Tony Kaye's film American... Read more
The bent pin: with liberty and pug noses for all.
Magazine article from: National Review; 7/6/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Columbus, Philip Roth called us those pug-nosed little bastards from Montclair. In movies and miniseries, an aging Ray Milland forged a new career as the WASP father from Hell. Serious scholars had a go at us as well. In The Rise of the Unmeltable... Read more
Billy Wilder, filmmaker.(Editorials)(His name linked to many movie classics)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 3/30/2002; 337 words ; ...Monroe's gust-blown skirt in The Seven Year Itch, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dressed as women in Some Like It Hot, Ray Milland's tortured battle with alcoholism in The Lost Weekend, William Holden's cynical POW in Stalag 17 and Gloria Swanson... Read more