FEATURES THIS MONTH
ICON OF THE MONTH
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart is the most globally recognizable Classic Hollywood Icon - period. With over 70 films to his name, including such timeless classics as Casablanca, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, Sabrina and African Queen, Humphrey Bogart has played it all:
"Here's lookin' at you kid." > Read the full article in the Premiere Issue of ICONS.
Gangster, Rogue, Adventurer, Survivor, Gum-Shoe, and more!
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REMEMBERING A STAR
Ava Gardner
What makes a star ... a movie star? The same attributes that go to make up a classic: simpliciy, strength, straightforwardness. And a committment to this moment and to every moment spent in front of the camera. The movie star is always fully in the context, fully in the story and, at the same time, stands above it all...
by Alphie McCourt > Read the full article in the Premiere Issue of ICONS.
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GARY COOPER
Man of the West
Check out the cowboy. Hat dirty, rimmed with sweat. Faded shirt a dreary grey. His pants, best you can say, they've been lived in. This is no Palm Springs cowboy. Nothing Hollywood about him.
Meet Melody Jones, as brought to life by Gary Cooper in the 1945 film, Along Came Jones. A screwball comedy masquerading as a western, Jones could have been set anywhere - it just happens to take place in the west. But Cooper's costume is nonetheless authentic. The dirty, sweaty outfit, worn to a fare-thee-well, nails the bronc-stomping Melody Jones, working cowboy...
by John Mulholland
> Read the full article in the Premiere Issue of ICONS.
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HOLLYWOOD CONFIDENTIAL
Lauren Bacall Remembers
"The Santana"
A film role with Humphrey Bogart at the age of 19, in Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not (1944), catapulted her to instant stardom and she and Bogie became a formidable team, offscreen as well as onscreen. Shortly after filming, she married Bogart. Lauren Bacall reflects back on the time her and Bogart spent on their boat "The Santana"... > Read the full article in the Premiere Issue of ICONS.
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