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As we’ve written many times before, we welcome reader emails — good, bad or indifferent. The latest missives are actually pretty good. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to give our ever alert (and opinionated) readers the day’s spotlight. First up is regular reader Mike Sheridan, who offers this about the […]
She was a showgirl with ambition. She wrote and starred in a silent film which showed that she had great promise as a light comedienne. But then her lover, the most powerful man in corporate America, took over and according to her, stunted her career rather than enhanced it. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to say that it had to happen. And it has. A while ago we ran blogs raising the point that James Dean’s acting reputation is overblown. See James Dean — Really A Good Actor?, Sept. 22, 2011; and the following Oct. 12’s […]
So the film you thought was the best last year, or the film you worked on, didn’t get ONE Oscar nomination. Not ONE. Not in ANY category. Don’t fret. History has proven that many films never recognized by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have gone on to become classics. Hello, everybody. Joe […]
The Oscar nominations have been announced, and there’s quite a hullabaloo about who’s been slighted. Well, guess that happens every year. Hello, everybody. Mrs. Norman Maine won her Oscar, but Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, are here to discuss some of the biggest stars who never even got nominated. […]
Recently The New York Times ran a chart about the height of men who have won the Oscar for Best Actor. The tallest was John Wayne at 6’4”. The shortest, Richard Dreyfuss at 5′ 5″. Hello Everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers here. MRS. Norman Maine out buying a tape measure. Why is it that […]
Marsha Hunt is probably more famous today because of being blacklisted than because of her screen roles. She was, however, a very good actress and an asset in all her films. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again to discuss one of the stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era who is still with us, […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to sheepishly disclose that yes, we — very occasionally — have sharply different views of a particular movie “classic.” And this is one of those times. Joe has been waiting for a bit of reader outrage over Frank’s contention that Breakfast at […]
Happier days: The above photo shows Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner at their first marriage in 1957. They divorced then years later remarried. They were still wed on the night of her untimely death. As mentioned on Friday, there have been new developments in the Natalie Wood drowning case, with rumors and other reports adding […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to assure you once again that we generally don’t follow breaking news headlines when it comes to the selection of blog topics. We prefer to think of our subjects, classic movie stars, as timeless. But with the very latest developments in the case of Natalie Wood’s death 31 […]