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Please repeat after us — a great classic movie could not have been made WITHOUT the right actors. Proper casting, in short, was (and still is) just about everything! One of the virtues of the old studio system –which had dozens of “stars and featured players” contractually obligated to and at the disposal of […]
Fans like nothing better than great candid photos of their favorite stars, and above is perhaps one of the most famous candid shots of all time. We aren’t sure who snapped it, but we suspect it was taken by a photographer associated with the late, lamented LOOK picture magazine. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank […]
Boy, were we surprised. We usually get a larger number of clicks on Sundays when classic movie fans have a bit more time to troll the web. But on July 8, Classicmoviechat’s readership level skyrocketed. The reason: the passing that day of 95-year-old Ernest Borgnine of kidney failure at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. It’s obvious […]
Searching for movies about bridge — the card game? We suspect that is not especially high on your “to do” list. But this is summer, the silly season, so please indulge us. Our search for engaging classic films takes us to all sort of places. We ran across an interesting book the other day, published back […]
Every film buff knows that director Alfred Hitchcock used to make cameo “walk ons” in his films. But only Hitchcock aficionados have obsessively tracked exactly where in his movies the director would silently show himself. Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, to announce that in honor of the summer silly season, we present the crucial […]
Hello, every body. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, catching up today with reader email. We love to both receive and comment on the responses we get especially since they are invariably interesting, even provocative. (They also have a way of keeping us on our toes.) Our pal Page on our June 22 […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to recall once again the bygone era of Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper, notably in relation to perhaps the greatest movie ever made, Citizen Kane. As mentioned in our April 18 blog (Hedda and Louella — a ‘Don’t Invite ‘Em’ if there ever was […]
Every film buff knows that director Alfred Hitchcock used to make cameo “walk ons” in his films. But only diehard Hitchcock aficionados have obsessively tracked exactly where in his movies the director would silently show himself. Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, to announce that in honor of the summer silly […]
Last week we gave you the names and pictures of seven Hollywood Superstars who have all had their likenesses on U. S. Postage stamps, and asked you who was the first to be so honored. Hello again. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back with the answers to our “stamp” quiz of June […]
Which film best captures the spirit of Fourth of July? Our guess is Yankee Doodle Dandy, the 1942 movie biography starring James Cagney of that flag waving showman, George M. Cohan. The in-your-face patriotism displayed in the picture is not in fashion now, therefore the movie comes across today as a refreshing anomaly. But there was a […]