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Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here again with more dirt on Van Johnson. By 1945, Johnson was voted by movie theater owners as the No. 2 biggest box office star, second only to Bing Crosby. But questions still were asked about his sexual preferences. As author Scott Eyman recounts […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to answer some of the always welcome emails we’ve received over the last week or two. As mentioned many times, we love to hear from you. If any of our Classicmoviechat blogs moves you to agree or to loudly disagree, please let […]
Above, we’ve posted some of our favorite snaps from The Donald Gordon Collection. We’ve been pleased to bring you these never seen before photos of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the 1940s. Hello Everybody. This is Mr. Joe Morella […]
Hi, everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers back again with a special note to you. We at Classic Movie Chat pride ourselves on bringing you photos that have never been seen before on any other blog. In fact these photos have never been published before –ANYWHERE. That’s because they are from a private stash, The Donald Gordon Collection. You ask, who was […]
Glad Tidings. Joe heard from old friend Lou Valentino (Lou by the way is author of The Films of Lana Turner), who did us an enormous favor by correctly identifying the man pictured above as Frank Albertson. The photo above is from The Donald Gordon Collection, and unfortunately our man Donald didn’t label all his […]
The following quote has been attributed to our mystery woman: I gave up Hollywood and I gave up pictures because I was always getting parts where I’d be the girl who says, “Oh, Red!,” in a Skelton movie. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here again to reveal the subject […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to wish the former Leonard Franklin Slye a Happy 100th Birthday. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on Nov. 5, 1911, Slye became Roy Rogers, and then became King of the Cowboys and even King of the West. He is perhaps the most prominent and durable cowpoke […]
O.K., classic movie fans, you have your work cut out for you this time. Hi, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here today to present another snapshot from our special Donald Gordon Collection of never-before-seen photos taken way back in early-Forties Hollywood. Who is this woman? (And, by the way, don’t you love that headpiece?) […]
Hello, everybody. Your Classic Movie guys, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, here again to deliberate on the notion that some Hollywood stars, while often seen onscreen, are still hard to identify. In our Sept. 20 blog, we challenged you to name the man above (the guy in the center between a youthful looking Donald Gordon […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, admiring the photo above. Once again we went to the vaults, and plucked a never-been-seen snapshot from The Donald Gordon Collection. That’s a young and casually dapper Donald to the left, and our mystery man in the center. And, please, don’t overlook that period […]