Robert Osborne
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Documentary about the use of 3-D technology in Inferno (1953) and the advent of CinemaScope, in 1953 in the film The Robe (1953).
Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin discusses his life and career with TCM host Robert Osborne at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival.
In the 1950s, Tab Hunter was number one at the box office and number one on the music charts and was Hollywood’s most sought-after young star. Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds and Sophia Loren were just a few of the actresses he was romantically linked to. He was America’s Boy Next Door and nothing, it seemed, could damage Tab Hunter’s career. Nothing, that is, except for the fact that Tab Hunter was secretly gay. Now, the secret is out.
Academy Award-winning actress Eva Marie Saint discusses her life and career at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival.
TCM host Robert Osborne discusses his life and career with guest interviewer Alec Baldwin in commemoration of Osborne's 20 years with the network.
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
In a show taped before a live audience at the TCM Classic Film Festival in April 2012, Robert Osborne hosts an in-depth interview with actress Kim Novak concerning her life and career.
Renowned actor Peter O’Toole joined Robert Osborne at the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival to discuss his life and career. Told in his own words, O’Toole shared revealing details during the course of the in-depth interview about the films he worked on as well as his offscreen interests.
100-year-old Oscar-winning actress Luise Rainer sits down with Robert Osborne at the 2010 TCM Classic Film Festival.
Each installment focuses on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary, cutting-edge films of the 1960s.
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics looks at Hollywood’s biggest screen spectaculars from all sides, including the genre’s beginnings, literary adaptations, great epic directors and actors, the challenges of making big-budget movies, classic set-pieces and epic music scores. The special also looks at how the genre fell out of favor with audiences and filmmakers in the ‘70s and ‘80s, only to be reborn with more recent films like Gladiator, and Dances with Wolves trilogy. Throughout, the special is packed with classic scenes and behind-the-scenes images from such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), Samson & Delilah (1949), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), El Cid (1961), King of Kings (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
A look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give their audiences a shot of adrenaline.
A 100 year history of the development of movie marketing, reflecting technical improvements, audience taste and cultural sensibilities.
Oscar®-winner Ernest Borgnine sits down with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne to discuss his life and career.
A making of featurette of 12 Angry Men made exclusively for the Collector's Edition DVD.
Making of Moontide talking about the production of the movie.
The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.
Director Norman Jewison discusses his life and career with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.
Actress Jane Fonda discusses her life and career with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of Sergeant York.
Angela Lansbury discusses her life and career with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.
This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.
Lauren Bacall discusses her life and career with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.
Short documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
A retrospective look at the brilliance of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Dial M for Murder.'
A retrospective look at Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.
Patricia Neal discusses her career with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.
A documentary on Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 film, "Suspicion".
Documentary short focusing on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film I Confess.
Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle is a documentary focusing on the first six sound Tarzan films produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan. Written and directed by John Rust, the documentary features interviews with film historians Rudy Behlmer and Scott Tracy Griffin, who discuss the films' literary antecedents and behind-the-scenes production details.
Documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s 'The Wrong Man'
In the 40's Howard Hawks boasts that he can make a movie out of the worst thing Hemingway ever has written. When Hemingway asks, which novel he means, Hawks says To Have and Have Not. Jules Furthman writes a script, which follows the book closely. The location of the story is Cuba, but the US Government is against depicting corruption and violence on Cuba, and threatens to withdraw the film's export license. William Faulkner rewrites the script, and relocates the story to Martinique. Hawks's wife, Nancy Slim Gross, happens to see a young model at the cover of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and shows it to her husband. Hawks is a star-maker, who likes to discover and nurture new talents. After a screen test, he chooses the 19 year old model as the lead actress opposite Humphrey Bogart. She changes her name from Betty Perske to Lauren Bacall. At the first takes she is so nervous that she shakes.
A featurette exploring the gangster films made at Warner Bros., actor Humphrey Bogart's career, and the making of HIGH SIERRA (1941)
Film historians examines the making of the 1938 "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
Shirley MacLaine discusses her life and career with TCM host Robert Osborne.
Bogart was interested in this project because it offered a chance to work with his new bride. The studio wasn't convinced but the result speaks for itself.
Documentary looking at the film classic, They Drive By Night
The abandoned Balfour House, which former owner was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. (A reconstruction, made using still photos, intertitles and music, of the 1927 original movie that was lost in 1965 during a fire.)
Singer-comedian Betty Button shares stories from her career as one of Hollywood's top stars.
The two-time Oscar winner discusses his career with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.
Robert Osborne hosts this TCM original featuring an exclusive interview with the original Odd Couple.
Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne interviews June Allyson on her career as MGM's resident "girl next door."
The noted star of such epics as The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur discusses his career with TCM host Robert Osborne.
Rarely seen movie trailers reveal Judy Garland's rise to stardom. Hosted by Robert Osborne.
Rarely seen movie trailers reveal Lana Turner's rise to stardom. Hosted by Robert Osborne.
Co-stars and lifelong friends Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell recall their careers.
Jane Powell takes us through her life in the movies with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.
Robert Osborne features noted personalities from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
