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Hello everybody. Morella and Segers at it again. This time with our musings on a unique star of yesteryear. At her death in late February at the age of 89, Jane Russell was memorialized in the mainstream press with lengthy obituaries fairly dripping with condescension. “Sultry Star of the 1940’s” read the headline in […]
Hello everybody. MRS. Norman Maine is out looking for her husband, but Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers are back again. Today we have a REAL mystery. We can across this snap of Donald Gordon with someone we can’t identify and we’re hoping you out there can help. At first we thought he was […]
MARLON BRANDO – FATSO Morella and Segers back again with more dish on Marlon Brando and his weight problems. By the 1960’s when Brando was in his 40’s he took to wearing a poncho in hot weather to conceal his by then flabby body. In Brando’s autobiography (“Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me,” written […]
MARLON BRANDO – THE HUNK Hello everybody. Mister Joe Morella and Mister Frank Segers here again Take a close look at the accompanying Marlon Brando beefcake from Joe’s extensive photo collection. The picture was taken, we suspect, in the actor’s stage years in the late 1940’s, probably around the time that he starred in […]
Hello everybody. The Classic movie guys, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, here again. Can you identify the actor shown with Lana Turner in this movie publicity still? Not easy, we admit. The guy appears almost baby-faced. (He was in his late twenties when this staged photo was taken.) The faux-Elvis-style haircut doesn’t help either. The […]
A WALK IN THE SUN – IS IT THE BEST MOVIE TO COME OUT OF WW II ? Hello Everybody. Mister Joe Morella and Mister Frank Segers here again . Today we all – notably including our esteemed Books to Movies contributor Larry Michie – have our say about one of the best movies […]
Well, Classic Movie fans, at least. Hello Everybody. We’re back again with a photo contributed by one of our readers. Pat Williamson, who a few weeks ago shared a photo of herself with legendary Marlene Dietrich, thought we might like to see this photo of her late husband, Hugh, when he appeared with Fess […]
Hello everybody. Mrs. Norman Maine is out looking for the man that got away. But Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers are here, still chatting about classic movies and movie stars. We all know Whoopie Goldberg appropriated her name from whoopie cushion back when she was a stand up comic, and that Nicholas […]
Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again to finish Joe’s tale about Dorothy Lamour. Guess why she orchestrated that spectacular comeback for herself? (Read on!) After a series of meetings and conversations between Joe and Dorothy about a possible book project, it became clear that her re-emergence on the show biz scene […]
Hello everybody. Morella and Segers still at it. Joe continues with his story about Paramount star Dorothy Lamour. Although she was in C. B. DeMille’s “The Greatest Show On Earth” Dorothy Lamour’s career as a leading actress essentially ended after 1952’s “The Road to Bali.” Ten year later when Dorothy’s career was a fading memory […]