A few days ago we suggested films you might want to watch on New Year’s Eve. Joe’s favorite is Repeat Performance, a film noir with a twist ending. And for romantics we noted When Harry Met Sally might be a good choice. Hello, everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers her again. Mrs. Norman […]
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Month: December 2011
DANNY KAYE — Danny Who?
A few days ago when we were discussing Christmas films we thought of White Christmas and Danny Kaye’s name came up. There are certain performers that are today overlooked — a gentle word for “forgotten” — although they were very big in their time. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, […]
MOVIES FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE
New Year’s Eve is fast approaching and your classic movie guys, Joe Morella and Frank Segers are here to share their favorite NYE films with you. Joe says there’s only ONE film to consider for the big night. It’s 1947’s Repeat Performance. It stars Joan Leslie (above) Louis Hayward and Virginia Field (below), and features […]
VERA ZORINA, you say?
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back again to commend our savvy audience for rising yet again to the challenge of identifying various personalities that, shall we say, were less than household names in their time. As we noted in our Dec. 15 blog — Who Is Bob Hope’s Classy […]
WHAT’S CAGNEY’S BEST MOVIE EVER?
In just about every interview, in most conversations, one question emerges unfailingly: what is my favorite picture? — Cagney By Cagney, the actor’s memoir published in 1976. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to determine which of James Cagney’s movies was his favorite because, presumably, he considered it […]
Some Thoughts About CHRISTMAS MOVIES
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys here today to provide an advance and heartfelt Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays to you, our faithful readers. Since this will be our first our first Christmas together — www.classicmoviechat.com started last April — we thought a general discussion of seasonal movies was in order. […]
DEAN MARTIN — The Coolest?
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to enjoy the entertaining responses we received to our Dec. 8 blog that asked the pressing question, Was Dean Martin a Movie Star or a TV Star? Our answer was that he was both. And we certainly stick by that! But what we […]
Answers To Our ACTOR QUIZ — You Heard It
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to come clean. We admit. We may, after all, have been too tough. Our blog of Dec. 7 — Pearl Harbor Day, by the way — asked you to identify the two actors […]
SUSAN HAYWARD Boffo in Europe, Plus Peri...
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys dipping our delighted figures into our semi-bountiful email bag. (We always welcome more reader missives.) From Philippe, we received a strong pitch on behalf of Susan Hayward, the Fifties star whom we’ve bad-mouthed in previous blogs. (Notably July 14’s Susan Hayward — Forgotten […]
QUESTION — Are Classic Movies Best Viewe
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, considering today the longstanding proposition that classic movies — indeed, any movie — is best seen in a movie theater. Do you agree? Do, for example, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre prove more compelling on the big screen in The Maltese Falcon than […]