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Farewell ROBERT DUVALL 💔 Iconic actor whose performances defined classics like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, THE GODFATHER, APOCALYPSE NOW, THE GREAT SANTINI, TENDER MERCIES (Oscar winner), LONESOME DOVE, & THE APOSTLE. Shaped the landscape of American film for generations. #MovieSky

Happy Birthday GALE SONDERGAARD! 🎂 Known for her velvet beauty & chilling villain roles, won an Oscar for ANTHONY ADVERSE and intimidated stars in films like THE CAT AND THE CANARY. Most memorably, she haunted Bette Davis in THE LETTER. My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/IhUVWZs5IgQ?... #MovieSky

Happy Birthday, THELMA RITTER 🎂 Six Oscar nominations. She should have won all of them! Here she is in the performance she deserved a seventh for: REAR WINDOW. Alfred Hitchcock adored her. Who didn’t? My Ritter #MovieReview Playlist 👉 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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YouTube video by Steve Hayes CLASSIC MOVIE REVIEW: Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison ☸️ THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR from STEVE HAYES

Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥️ My movie pick for today, THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR. Gene Tierney’s cool resolve & Rex Harrison’s sly charm make the romance feel airy, stirringly haunted, and delightfully grown-up. My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/NsjBtSeufpk?... 💌 #MovieSky

Farewell BUD CORT 💔 Born Walter Edward Cox in Rye, New York. Discovered by Robert Altman, he became the haunted Harold in HAROLD AND MAUDE and the dreamer of BREWSTER MCCLOUD, then kept surprising in DOGMA and THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU. #MovieSky

Happy Birthday, legendary Australian actress DAME JUDITH ANDERSON! 🎂 The first celebrity I ever saw on stage, she was in her mid-'70s... playing Hamlet. 💀 Brilliant in everything. Unforgettable in REBECCA (‘40). My #MovieReview youtu.be/WbMalkrxgOo?... 🎬 #MovieSky

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Farewell HARRY HAUN 💔 Writer, reporter, theatre critic, & film aficionado. We had lively discussions about every aspect of cinema. His THE MOVIE QUOTE BOOK belongs in every movie lover’s library. Sympathy to his kind, devoted husband, Charles Nelson. He will be greatly missed 🎬 #MovieSky

What a tragedy.

Farewell, CATHERINE O’HARA 💔 Toronto-born comic genius from Second City and SCTV who gave us Kate McCallister, Delia Deetz, Moira Rose, and those Christopher Guest gems. Emmy and Golden Globe winner, Order of Canada, peerless voice. #RIP

Happy Birthday swords & sandals icon VICTOR MATURE! 🎂 Versatile, imposing & sensitive w/ an air of quiet menace tempered w/ sadness for his best roles, like Doc Holliday in MY DARLIN’ CLEMENTINE. Unforgettable in Cecil B. DeMille's lavish SAMSON & DELILAH youtu.be/Sbx7I0vBAi4?... #MovieSky

New Movie Review! DAMN YANKEES ⚾️ A Washington Senators fan sells his soul for a pennant, & Ray Walston shows up with the contract. Gwen Verdon is electric as Lola, Tab Hunter slides in as Joe Hardy, & Fosse adds the steps. 👉 youtu.be/s0sE4X13nhs?... #MovieSky

Happy Birthday, iconic bodybuilder STEVE REEVES! 🎂 Winner of countless trophies and star of umteen swords and sandals epics of which, my teenage self, never missed a matinee…sigh… 💪 #MovieSky

Happy Birthday HARRY DAVENPORT! 🎂 One of the great character actors in classics like GONE WITH THE WIND, THE HUBCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO, hilarious in THE BACHELOR & THE BOBBY SOXER & so touching in MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS. My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/b9W9XVzGSYw?... #MovieSky

Thanks & love to my dear friends Sharon Witt & Carol Bodeen, who sent me these glorious metal posters of old movie magazine covers from the Golden Age for my birthday this past week. Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Tyrone Power and Loretta Young. Glorious!! 💖🎬 #MovieSky

Happy Birthday KAY FRANCIS! 🎂 Once Warner Brothers queen of classic weepies, pre-Bette Davis. Stylish, solid actress with a slight lisp. Rumor says she lost her career after battling the studio over inferior scripts. They relegated her to “B” pictures and let her contract run out. #MovieSky

Happy Birthday to my darlin’ sister JOANNE “JODI” HOLTON! 🎂 Sister, mother & grandmother extraordinaire. No one makes me laugh harder, and at this stage of the game, that’s a gift beyond measure. ❤️ Luv you, Sweetheart! 🫶

Happy Birthday, two-time Oscar nominee SAL MINEO! 🎂 Here he is with Alan Ladd hidden in his locker, as the sensitive, closeted, Plato in Nicholas Ray’s REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (‘56). My #MovieReview youtu.be/rLYDixVMwk0?...

Happy Birthday RAY BOLGER! 🎂 Former vaudeville song & dance man with runaway legs who will always be The Scarecrow in THE WIZARD OF OZ, a delight in THE HARVEY GIRLS with Judy Garland and Angela Lansbury. 🎬 My #MovieReview youtu.be/VQ4VQybo9rg?... #MovieSky

Happy Birthday PAUL HENREID! 🎂 Suave leading man, immortalized as Victor Laszlo in CASABLANCA (1942), is also remembered for lighting two cigarettes at once in NOW, VOYAGER (1942) to comfort Bette Davis. My #MovieReview youtu.be/Cmh4sgxoGl0?... #MovieReview

Happy Birthday LORETTA YOUNG! 🎂 After a celebrated film career, she moved to TV & won Emmys. Won an Oscar for warmhearted, delightful, political satire THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER where she shakes up a senator’s household and the Capitol. Timely. My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/GHSH2Ni6T1E?... 🎬 #MovieSky

Farewell to Mark Milano 💔 LGBTQ activist & brilliant documentarian. His film on Hollywood musical dubbing with Charles Busch is wonderful. During a live show at Dixon Place, Mark left the hospital despite fragile health & was brilliant. Sympathy to his husband Gerry Valero. #RIP

Happy Birthday, pint-sized JOSEPHINE HULL! 🎂 Remembered for playing lovable, eccentric, old ladies on stage & screen, like Laura Partridge in SOLID GOLD CADILLAC & Abby Brewster in ARSENIC & OLD LACE. Won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress as Veta in HARVEY 🐰 37 Broadway credits! #MovieSky

Happy Birthday, REX O’MALLEY! 🎂 Known for his wry, urbane, & witty performances as the gay best friend & sidekick to leading ladies like Garbo, Colbert, & Mary Astor. Best known for CAMILLE (1936) & my fave MIDNIGHT (1939) 🎬 My MIDNIGHT #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/2oCCFDlWvPE?...

Happy Birthday WILLIAM "BILLY" HAINES! 🎂 Top box office star in 1930, movies include SHOW PEOPLE. Openly gay, he chose to live authentically with his partner Jimmie Shields, defying MGM's ultimatum. Haines became a successful interior designer to the stars. Talent & integrity.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🥂 Love, laughter, peace, and goodwill to everyone. 🎉 It's a great day to watch a movie! 🎬 Here is my #MovieReview Playlist of 12 of the BEST MOVIES for New Year's Day 👉 youtube.com/playlist?lis... What's on your list? 🧐 #MovieSky

Happy Hollywood New Year! 🥳🪅🥂 My absolute favorite New Year's scene in classic movies is the final fade-out of rivals Bette Davis & Miriam Hopkins toasting in OLD ACQUAINTANCE (‘44). My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/wDpjgm59iW8?... 🎉 Happy 2026, Friends! 🍾 #MovieSky

Happy Birthday to #Oscar winner JO VAN FLEET! 🎂 Her greatest role was as Ella Garth in Elia Kazan's WILD RIVER. She was known for playing older women, including Paul Newman's mother in COOL HAND LUKE and the evil Kate in EAST OF EDEN 👉 My : youtu.be/wjrwEpLTx5Q?...

Merry Christmas, @stevehayestoq.bsky.social!

For Christmas Eve🎄WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954): Technicolor holiday joy, Irving Berlin tunes, Crosby & Kaye charm, Clooney shines, Vera-Ellen dances, Mary Wickes steals laughs. Cozy and lavish. ❄️ My Review: youtu.be/iM_SLj3bvAo?... #MovieSky