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Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here with another contribution from our Books2Movies maven, Larry Michie, musing on the uncertain journeys to the big screen of three notable Ernest Hemingway works. Larry writes: A famous ‘Papa’ short story is The Killers featuring a couple of mob guys intent on rubbing out a boxer who […]
Sometimes the wrong person has been cast in a film and the producers and director recognize it in time to replace the actor. Such was the case with 1943’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. The film had started production with Vera Zorina in the female lead. She was soon replaced with the boyishly beautiful Ingrid Bergman […]
Hello, everybody. Your classic movie guys again, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, thinking about “lit-terachur.” Today we welcome our regular Books2Movies guest contributor, Larry Michie, who muses on a most puzzling classic movie fact – why most film versions of Hemingway books are hard to digest today. We urge you to read on and find out […]
Even though she joked that the public saw her as “a second rate Bette Davis,” there’s no doubt that Ida Lupino was one of the best screen actresses of the Forties and Fifties. But she was also one of the ground breaking women directors of the time, as well. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank […]
O.K. The last few weeks have been easy. Last Monday almost everyone recognized Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and a few people guessed composer-crooner Buddy Greco. But today we’re out to stump you. No more Mr. Nice Guys. Here’s an interesting bunch. How many do you recognize? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here […]
Long before Ginger Rogers, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron, and Barrie Chase — much less Joan Crawford (yes, she was quite a hoofer in her day), Rita Hayworth (ditto) and Audrey Hepburn (ditto again) — lit up the screen as seven of Fred Astaire’s many dancing cohorts, there was one woman in his life who was his very best partner. Unfortunately […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, a bit breathless today because we just received the results of the international cineastes’ poll naming “the greatest film” ever made. Our hands can’t stop shaking. But before we rip open the envelope, we should explain that the highly respected British movie journal Sight & […]
Question. Has anyone ever filled a movie screen with cigarette smoke more authoritatively than Joan Crawford (see above)? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to celebrate the ways audience can escape its quotidien woes by watching a darn good (and often unheralded) film. And if it happens to star […]
A friend of ours, Patricia Barry, has just had a book published. Julia’s Cats is about the feline companions of the late chef and TV star Julia Child. In our shameless wish to plug our pal’s book we’ve decided to look at classic movies which feature cats as co-stars. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here […]
Two of the stars in the above photo are so internationally famous that we wager there won’t be a single reader of this blog who can’t identify them. But who’s the second man? The guy with the plunging neckline embracing that stunning-looking woman? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back […]