News about Peter Falk

This week, Kathryn Flett is full of praise for ITV's Maryland, which focuses on two sisters who are reunited in sorrow after their mother Mary's body is discovered on a beach on the Isle of Man. 'As an antidote to all those in-yer-face US shows with the hope that middle-aged sisters' sibling rivalry is knitted together with the kind of mysteries that make even "normal" families mysteriously unknowable,' she says.

It's A Wonderful Life, a Christmas film that has long stood up to time, has long been around for decades. Fans around the world have consistently voted the film as one of the best festive films ever produced, and as a result, the iconic cast has a long place in movie enthusiasts' hearts. Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore all appeared in the iconic film based on Philip Van Doren Stern's "The Greatest Gift." In August 2022, actress Virginia Patton, who played Jimmy Stewart's sister-in-law Ruth Dakin Bailey, died at the age of 97. Following the death of the last surviving adult actor from the holiday classic, FEMAIL looks back at the iconic cast's career, 76 years after it was announced.