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Well, it seems that Robert Wagner’s version of the events leading up to Natalie Wood’s death 30 years ago — the story he told in his 2008 memoir Pieces of My Heart: A Life coauthored by Scott Eyman — is more or less accurate. That, […]
Just who IS that elegant lady (above) sitting opposite an inebriated Victor Moore, and being nuzzled by the likes of Bob Hope? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, unearthing today one of the comedian’s older comedies, and marveling at the classy-looking actress who portrays his romantic interest. In past months […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, recalling a period when Mexican movie stars were a hot commodity in Hollywood. Last month we discussed the actor Arturo deCordova, a star in his native Mexico and who was wooed to Hollywood in the early 1940s when the studios needed male leads to […]
Has anyone ever played a gangster onscreen as often and as convincingly as George Raft? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to reveal a side of a legendary screen tough guy that you might not know. He was shy, and might even have been a momma’s boy. At […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to catch up with our email. It’s a great pleasure to hear from you, our very knowledgeable readers, who always keep us on our toes. First up is Vincent, who weighs in about the time-honored subject of how many movie actresses Howard Hughes […]
And that was eons before My Week With Marilyn. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to report back about those two Fox ‘contract players‘ we asked you to identify in our Nov. 24 blog. Almost everyone in the world would recognize the star in the first picture above, but […]
Hello, everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys here to announce that the answer, naturally, is both. After splitting with Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin continued a successful career in films with notable performances in Some Came Running with Frank Sinatra, Rio Bravo and The Sons of Katie Elder with John Wayne. Martin appeared in […]
Who are the two guys pictured here, and what do they have in common? Remember, that’s a two-part question. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers again with a new quiz. These two character actors each had long careers. One even won an Oscar. We suspect you’ll have a […]
Does the above photo look as if this young woman is living in London in 1944? American filmmakers CANNOT do period dramas correctly. Oh, we don’t mean COSTUME pictures — they can certainly make pictures set in ancient or medieval times or set in any century prior to the 2oth. But films set in […]
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 from a private stash, The Donald Gordon Collection. You ask, who was […]