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As you know we love hearing from our readers. Everyone likes letters. And in our cyber world emails are the next best things. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, dipping into our mailbag for the latest batch of reader goodies, and they are indeed good. Our Sept. 18 blog (Best […]
He was a star at 21. He left a top career in Hollywood to serve his country in the navy during World War II and became an even bigger star when he returned. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, with another of our blogs covering the biggest stars of the […]
It is hard to imagine today the fame and stature that Betty Grable had in the 1940s Hello Everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here to discuss, as part of our series on major Forties stars, a woman recognized worldwide for her great gams (that means “legs” to those under 40) but often given short […]
We suspect that many of you trying to identify that mystery third person pictured to the left in yesterday’s “Monday Photo Challenge” came up empty. Take it from at least one of us. Don’t feel bad. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to provide the answers to yesterday’s […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to start the week with another mystery photo challenge. Last week’s two couples were, no doubt, easily recognizable by most movie fans. And, we’re sure that two of the three teenagers pictured above will also be identified by MOST of our readers. But the trick […]
All right. Let’s put this question to you directly? Is 1952’s Singin’ In The Rain the best movie musical ever filmed? Better than, say, Showboat, The Wizard of Oz or Meet Me In St. Louis? What do you think? Hello, every body. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, raising some questions today […]
We recently heard from our pal Harley Lond, a former editor at The Hollywood Reporter, who alerted us to a documentary-in-the-works about legendary director Raoul Walsh. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys to make an exception to our overriding editorial rule about concentrating on stars, not […]
Hello, everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, coping today with our own Mrs. Norman Maine, who’s all atwitter about today’s subject, the very first actress to play her onscreen. Yes, we are talking about Janet Gaynor, who played “Vicki Lester” in 1937’s A Star Is Born directed by William Wellman and […]
Many years ago, Frank was once sitting in a screening room at the Chicago International Film Festival, and was amazed when the Festival’s jurors — trusted with adjudicating prizes and awards to select films from all over the globe — walked out en masse just as the opening credits of some, long-forgotten Danish title had […]
OK, we’re back to being Mr. Nice Chaps this week. (No more Buddy Greco’s to baffle you.) Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, with another of our Monday “name-the-stars” challenges featuring some of the candid photos in our collection. We’ve written a lot about the woman in the top shot […]