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What film to watch on New Year’s Eve? We know that’s the question most people are struggling with as they approach 2013. Hello Everybody. Morella and Segers here to wind up 2012 with a quiz about movies with a New Year’s theme or scene. But first the answers to last week’s quiz about Christmas films. […]
Genevieve Tobin (pictured above right ) portrayed Mitzi in the 1932 Ernst Lubitsch comedy for Paramount, One Hour With You. In that pre code musical which starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette MacDonald, Tobin played “the other woman.” Hello Everybody. MR. Joe Morella and MR. Frank Segers, still here holding down the fort while MRS. Norman […]
I have just learned that a majority of the people who become abnormal drinkers are superior in intelligence and are almost always introverts. — Dana Andrews, 1951 In this quote from author Carl Rollyson’s new biography, Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews, the actor is describing himself in a letter to his beloved and somewhat long-suffering wife, […]
You may be hearing a bit more than usual lately about Dana Andrews, and that to us is a very good thing. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today proclaim our admiration for Andrews, who correctly has been characterized as “one of the most undervalued actors in film history.” […]
Ho Ho Ho! We suspect that this Christmas Morn you’re checking under the tree, and not reading our blog. But we, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, want to take this opportunity to wish you the best Christmas ever. Everyone has his favorite Christmas film, of course. Some old. Some newer. Whichever […]
‘Tis the season. Merry Christmas all. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys here with our regular Monday Quiz. And keeping in the spirit of the season we’ve compiled a few questions about favorite Christmas movies. Also in the spirit of the season, we’ve tried to make things none too difficult. — What is […]
There’s a crisp but revealing dialogue exchange in director Jack Smight’s Harper, the 1966 neo-noirish thriller costarring Paul Newman, Robert Wagner and Shelley Winters, among other solid actors. Newman as a down-at-the-heels gumshoe named Harper picks up a framed photograph of the woman portrayed by Winters, and shows it to Wagner’s suspicious playboy character. Newman: […]
There’s no question that Raymond Burr is most remembered today as the star of two tube series that riveted television viewers worldwide from 1957 through 1975. But classic movie lovers are likely to prefer the Raymond Burr that turns up in the some 10 film noir titles of the Forties and Fifties, showcasing the hulking […]
She was the greatest and most famous gossip columnist of all time. Her name is synonymous with the word. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here today to chat about the one and only, Louella. Louella Parsons may not have invented the gossip column, but she certainly perfected it. The story goes that Parsons, who had […]
There was Nelson Eddy, Ronald Coleman, Lawrence Tierney and Errol Flynn. Don’t forget Brando, William Holden and the inevitable Howard Hughes. And that’s just the prelude. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to begin a multi-part look at the love life of a star who took herself and […]