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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 […]
There are four Oscar Winning Stars over 90 years old. Care to guess? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back again to announce that if you’re a student of the Oscars you’ll know who these geriatric winner are. The first woman to win two Academy Awards, and to do it […]
Few periods in history have prompted more Monday-morning-quarterbacking than the Nazi occupation of France from 1940 through the summer of 1944. The French, of course, were (and remain) obsessed with the period. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to consider the case of Maurice Chevalier, the gregarious French […]
OK, now it can be told. No other classic Hollywood movie star has drawn more (very informed) email from our devoted Classicmoviechat.com readers than — drum roll, please! — Deanna Durbin. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, to report that to our […]
Wow! When you want pictures, we give you pictures. When these photos were released by the movie studio in the 1940s they merely identified these women as “20th Century Fox Player” — but we bet you know who they are. Hi everyone, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back with another photo […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back again with our second, and most interesting, of two Howard Hughes blogs. Yesterday we presented Hughes as the Godzilla of that once venerable film studio, RKO Pictures. Today we offer Howard as he perhaps would have preferred us to see him — as Hollywood’s […]
It’s become trendy in academic circles these days to view the big studio bosses — Adolph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer, the fractious Warner brothers, Darryl F. Zanuck, Harry Cohn — as tough-as-nails egomaniacs and ruthlessly strong-willed dictators, necessary if you wanted to get the job […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to assure that we generally don’t follow breaking news headlines when it comes to the selection of blog topics. We prefer to think of our subjects, classic movie stars, as timeless. But with the latest developments in the case of Natalie Wood’s death […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here again to continue for one more day our look at cougars — older woman of Hollywood-past bedding and wedding young men. Yesterday, we noted the surprising array of female stars who, in one way or the […]
Older women bedding and wedding younger men is nothing new in Hollywood. Keeping straight who’s hitched to whom in contemporary Hollywood is always a challenge. But we can say that Madonna, Liza Minnelli, Priscilla Presley, Roseanne Barr, Mira Sorvino, Fran Drescher, Vanna White and Barbara Hershey are among the many actresses who are currently, were, or […]