Edmond O'Brien

HAPPY NEW YEAR, CHARLIE BROWN (8 p.m., ABC/7) - While other members of the Peanuts gang plan a holiday, Charlie Brown struggles with "War and Peace." NOVA (8 p.m., WNET/13) - "Is There Life on Mars?" looks at scientific results from NASA's twin robot...

From The Times: April 5, 1960 "Ben-Hur" last night proved as big an Academy Award winner as it has been on the big screen. Sweeping all before it, its horses, light and dark, its chariots and its filmic makers triumphed in 11 categories for an all-time...

1. THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT (Frank Tashlin; 1956) 3 1/2 stars Tashlin's rowdy comedy about a hapless press agent (Tom Ewell) hired by a hot-tempered gangster (Edmond O'Brien) to make a pop star of his talent-challenged girlfriend (Jayne Mansfield). Full of...

1. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock; 1943) 4 stars A charming, beautifully written small-town psychological thriller about two people named Charlie: an idealistic young girl (Teresa Wright) and her suave, worldly uncle (Joseph Cotten), whom she...

Friday January 16, 1998      Somewhere in the dark woods of the cold Northeast, a man is crawling in a panic across the ground. He looks about done in, ready to chum for earthworms, when we hear the calm voice of a narrator saying he wants to tell us...

Friday February 27, 1998      Like Hong Kong action directors reinventing the western, Australia's current crop of filmmakers are happily absorbing the received wisdom of Hollywood and boomeranging it back at us. Recalibrated film noir. The costume...

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg in THE CAINE MUTINY Stanley Kramer Productions; Columbia Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in ON THE WATERFRONT Horizon-American Corporation; Columbia Bing Crosby...

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Richard Burton as Thomas Becket in BECKET Hal Wallis Productions; Paramount Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in MY FAIR LADY Warner Bros. Peter O'Toole as King Henry II in BECKET Hal...