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Question: What’s a classic film? Answer: A classic is a film you just can’t stop watching no matter how many times you’ve seen it. Hello, everybody. Your Movie Guys from Twitter, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, here again to chat about one of our favorite classics. Joe has just returned from a trip to OKC. […]
Tiger Woods is undoubtedly among the most famous of current athletes. Despite (or perhaps because of) his infamous domestic tribulations, could his fame translate to movies? Over the years how many athletic stars were turned into movie stars? Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again pondering how many famous athletes from the 20s, […]
She is a great actress. Nominated for the Oscar three times. Won many awards. Always received billing above the title. Played opposite all of Hollywood’s top leading men: Clark Gable, John Garfield, Glenn Ford, Charlton Heston, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra. And yet there aren’t many people who would contend that Eleanor Parker is a […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today admiring that photo above of one of our favorite actresses. (Doesn’t she look great?) Last week’s blog about Ann Sheridan elicited this response from faithful reader Mike Sheridan: Wow, you guys pick all the winners. Ann Sheridan was a true “movie star” deserving all […]
What stars. What Cars! They were truly something to see if not unique back in the 1930s. Harlow! Cadillac! Only one name needed. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today pondering a first class star and her first class car. (Boy! you gotta admire the sheen on that devil. […]
Question to our readers. Has here ever been a more durable star, personality or group of personalities in the history of classic movies than … The Three Stooges? That was the query we posed in our May 31 blog ( The 3 Stooges — Living On and On and On and On…) in making the […]
Credit this to Oscar Levant. He could really make a memorable first impression. In 1954 essays for the British magazine Punch, drama and film critic Kenneth Tynan wrote in notebook-diary style about encountering Levant at a Hollywood party. Pianist and wit, (his) face awake bears expression of utter disgust most men wear asleep. Am put […]
Wow! She was known as “the oomph girl” and she certainly had it in abundance. But who knew Ann Sheridan could sing too? Obviously the producers at Warner Bros., the studio which had Sheridan under contract for several years, knew at least a little since they threw in a few songs with her signature roles […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, doing what we especially enjoy — catching up with reader emails. Note to readers: good, bad or indifferent, we love hearing from you. Cy Kaplan was inspired sufficiently by our Nov. 18 blog (Was Joan Crawford A Couger?) to email the following missive. (By […]
After he returned from military service in World War II Tyrone Power decided he wanted to change his screen image and try more challenging roles. He also decided to change his personal image, and a new car and new clothes were part of that change. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, updating […]