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Jul 17, 2024 · Curtis Harrington died on May 6, 2007, aged 80, of complications from a stroke he suffered two years earlier. His remains are interred in the Cathedral Mausoleum at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. House of Harrington, a short documentary about the director's life, was released
Feb 9, 2024 · Curtis Harrington’s debut feature – “Night Tide” (1961), if nothing, was genre-bending. The film remains a haunting experience, yet it can’t be justified in a generic understanding of cinema. Based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee, Mora’s character, is a perfect description of what Poe felt when he wrote the poem.
Apr 17, 2024 · Director Curtis Harrington (1926-2007) lead a fascinating life. Barbara Steele delivered this eulogy at Harrington’s funeral – and The Chiseler thanks her for providing an intimate portrait, published here for the first time. Today would have been Harrington’s ninety-first birthday. Good evening.
Apr 26, 2024 · Directed by Curtis Harrington, this 1971 thriller stars Shelley Winters and Debbie Reynolds in a tale of madness punctuated by tap numbers.
Jun 21, 2023 · As a fast-paced view of Harrington's journey through the kaleidoscope of the movie business, it acts alternately as personal memoir and cultural history from a veteran of the entertainment business. As Harrington was living as a gay man in Hollywood, the book additionally gives a rare peek into the hidden world of what was then an elite subculture.
Nov 26, 2023 · Curtis Harrington, widely regarded as one of the important avant-garde directors of the 1940’s, as well as an early influential figure in what would come to be known as ‘New Queer Cinema,’ was born in Los Angeles in 1926. He began making films as a teenager, ...
Jun 13, 2024 · Curtis Harrington Obituary. In loving memory of Curtis Harrington of Hilliard, Florida, who departed this world on June 8, 2024 at the age of 77. Curtis leaves behind a legacy remembered by family and friends. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of Curtis Harrington to pay them a last tribute.
Oct 14, 2023 · She headlined a horror vehicle for director Curtis Harrington called “Ruby” (1977), played Judy Garland’s fearsome stage mother on television in 1978, and was flat-out terrifying as Magda Goebbels in “The Bunker” (1981), especially in the scene where she poisons her own children.
May 2, 2024 · Madeline rises once more when Curtis Harrington himself, donning a wig and displaying no particular gifts as an actor, nonetheless appears before us transfigured. His decision to play both of Edgar Allan Poe’s doomed siblings — or, if you prefer, the two incestuous halves of one Self — adds compelling honesty to the horror tale.
Jun 1, 2024 · Vengeful spirits have come in many forms on the big screen, but a prohibition era gangster would definitely be among the rare. Curtis Harrington (Night Tide) gives audiences one such scenario in Ruby, where a criminal spectre comes calling on his old girlfriend Ruby Clair and his former associates who violently gunned him down sixteen years earlier.
