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Hello again. Joe Morella and Frank Segers back to share another photo from the Donald Gordon Collection. This illustrates that off screen, while just as beautiful as they were on film many stars were not THAT recognizable. Without their makeup (and in the case of many male stars like Bing Crosby and Humphrey Bogart, their […]
Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here. That song lyric, about Audrey Hepburn and Liz Taylor set us to thinking. And, since her death, awhile back, friends have been asking when we were going to devote a blog to Elizabeth Taylor. While she wasn’t a favorite of Frank’s. Joe remembers her fondly for […]
“Keep Betty Grable, Lamour and Turner.” Hello Everybody. Back again with a quiz or two. Many of you recognized that line opening today’s blog as a lyric from the Frank Sinatra hit song “Nancy with the Laughing Face.” It goes, “keep Betty Grable, Lamour and Turner, she makes my heart a charcoal burner, no […]
Hello Everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, here with a photo of two children of stars of the past who went on to have careers of their own. Recognize them? The purpose of this blog, as we’ve said before, is to share photos, stories and thoughts with you. We’re hoping that you’ll check in […]
Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers again. Take a good long look at the photo today. You may not know it but you are peering at a pair of “million dollar legs.” They belonged to one Elizabeth Ruth Grable, born in St. Louis in 1916. No kidding. That’s what Betty Grable’s gams were […]
Hello Everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again. And our first posting on Saturday. We’re committed to coming to you Monday through Friday and hope you’ll look to us each day as you would your favorite columnist. This week we’re adding a sixth entry. Today we are thrilled to begin what we hope […]
Hello Everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again with more musings on Hemingway books to Movies from Larry Michie. Larry says, “Before weighing the last two Hemingway-based motion pictures, one of which was both worthy and popular, the other scorned but with a lot of freight that often gets overlooked, it’s appropriate to scan […]
Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here. With our pal Larry Michie. Larry further muses on Hemingway Novels to screen. “In 1957 came a film version of Hemingway’s first novel, a classic that enraptured millions of readers and defined what came to be known as ‘The Lost Generation.’ Unfortunately, on the big screen […]
The importance of Being Ernest. Hello everybody. This is Mister Joe Morella and Mister Frank Segers here again at the Classic Movie Blog. without MRS Norman Maine. Today we welcome our regular guest contributor, Larry Michie, literary man of the world and former television editor of Variety. Larry muses most on a most puzzling classic […]
Hello again. Morella and Segers here. Captured in yesterday’s photo was Linda Darnell, one of Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck’s stable of promising young actresses in the early 1940’s. Some might say in retrospect that her life off-camera often was far more interesting than many of the movies she made. Gorgeous from birth […]