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Today movies just “Open”— and then everybody checks the weekend grosses the following Monday. But in Hollywood’s heydey movies “Premiered.” When the studios ran the industry they realized they could get maximum publicity for a film if they opened it with great fanfare and had major stars appear in person at the theater. Joe Morella and Frank […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, wondering today about how the womanly actress seen in the photos here today wound up with a man’s name. On Monday (Aug. 29), we published one of those wonderful, early Forties snapshots from The Donald Gordon Collection showing […]
We’ve spent the last few weeks discussing the novel and film “From Here to Eternity,” so we thought we’d bring you up to date on how the film fared when the Academy Awards were given out. The answer. Great. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, her to cap a series of articles […]
Hello, everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, back again, enjoying a very tasty luau that Mr. Norman Maine just prepared. Hawaii is still on our minds because this is another in a series of blogs about the “From Here To Eternity.” As you may know, our Books 2 Movie maven […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, back again and trying today to resolve one of our consequential trivia questions. A few weeks ago when we noted that Rita Moreno was the second Hispanic American to win an Oscar, we challenged you, our loyal readers, to name the first. For those […]
Hello, everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers here again at our usual Classic Movie stand. Mr. Norman Maine is still at the barbecue preparing that blasted luau. We continue today with another in a series of blogs — written by our resident Books 2 Movies maven Larry Michie — about the classic 1953 […]
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 […]
She preached the gospel AND she sold War Bonds! This rare photo is from the private collection of our friend Patricia Williamson and features Pat (the uniformed lass on the right) with the leading evangelist of the era, Aimie Semple McPherson, taking […]
Hello Everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers, your Classic Movie Guys, watching Mrs. Norman Maine working on that luau at the backyard barbecue. We still have Hawaii on our mind since today’s blog is another installment in our series (written by our Books 2 Movies maven Larry Michie) about the 1953 […]
Mainstream movie audiences associate singing cowboys with such luminaries Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Ken Maynard, Tex Ritter and even John Wayne in his Monogram Pictures period in the early 1930s. But Herb Jeffries (pictured above in mufti and in costume below)? Hello, everybody, Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers, your Classic Movie Guys. Mrs. […]