Filmmaker Bernard Glasser has died. Glasser produced films including The Day of the Triffids (1963), The Return of The Fly (1959), Crack In The World (1965) and The Thin Red Line (1964). The Hollywood Reporter, The AV Club , Giant Freakin Robot and Variety have obituaries.
Joan Fontaine has died. The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times and NPR have obituaries. Here are a clip of Fontaine in Suspicion, the trailer for Jane Eyre and Fontaine’s screen test for Rebecca. Fontaine co-hosts the Mike Douglas Show in 1967 here.
Actor Peter O’Toole has died. NPR remembers O’Toole. The Guardian, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times have obituaries. Here is O’Toole on the Charley Rose program, in My Favorite Year, in Lawrence of Arabia and singing with Richard Harris.
Text of Sharmila Tagore’s lecture on women and Indian cinema at the India International Centre. (via Memsaab Story)
Author Ida Pollock has died. Writing under multiple noms de plume, Pollock published 120 books and was a founder of the Romantic Novelists Association. The Mary-Sue has an obituary. NPR talks with her daughter, Rosemary Pollock. The Telegraph has an overview of her career.
A gallery of “Smart Set 400” playing cards with pictures of women on the back, starting with ladies from 1909.
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