We’re delighted to say that almost 30% of our readers are from countries other than the U.S. So as a tribute to them for the next few weeks we’re going to highlight stars who were born in other lands. The bloke pictured above, Raymond Massey was a star of the Golden Era in Hollywood and […]
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Month: February 2013
WHO HOLDS THE TITLE?
So all the Oscar hullabaloo is over. Have you ever wondered who has appeared in the most Oscar winning movies? Is it a mega star like Bette Davis or Humphrey Bogart? Is it Gable or Garbo? Hello Everybody? Joe Morella and Frank Segers again to answer the burning question of the day. The actor who […]
DOGS AND THEIR STARS
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, asking today if you recognize the star pictured above and below? She is famous for films, records, television shows and most recently for her efforts for the human treatment of animals. (Hint — No, she is NOT Brigitte Bardot.) We realize that we don’t usually […]
That INGRID BERGMAN Quiz — The Answers
As we mentioned last week — one good book plug deserves another, after all — one of the most pleasurable reads we’ve come across lately is British critic-author’s David Thomson’s new book, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies, which includes a concise and pointed chapter titled, Ingrid Sees A Movie. Hello, everybody. Joe […]
All Four Categories Covered
This year for the first time in many years four actors from the same film have been nominated in all four of the acting categories for the Oscars. From the film Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper has been nominated for best actor, Jennifer Lawrence for best actress, Robert DeNiro for best supporting actor and Jacki […]
Readers Sound Off!
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today wrist-deep in our email bag, picking out the latest of our reader correspondence. Way back in July 14, 2011, we published a blog that asked this question: Susan Hayward — Forgotten Star? Judging from the emails we have received since then, the […]
Know A Lot About INGRID BERGMAN? Take T...
One of the most pleasurable reads we’ve come across lately is British critic-author’s David Thomson’s new book, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies, which includes a concise and pointed chapter titled, Ingrid Sees A Movie. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to unequivocally state that Ingrid Bergman […]
Nervous Milland, Dean & Cary — Our Reade
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, once again dipping into e-mail bag to unearth recent reader correspondence. And, we are both pleased and a tad red-faced to discover that our all correspondents this time have nice things to say about us. (We love it, we love it!) Since we are still […]
Family Business
Last year, 2012, saw the passing of one of the most famous actresses of “B” movies of the 1940s, Eylse Knox. Although she made only one horror film during her long career, The Mummy’s Tomb with Lon Chaney Jr., she is someone associated with Horror Films. Perhaps that’s because she spent almost all of her […]
All Leading Ladies With The Right Leadin...
Marjorie Reynolds (upper left), Virginia Dale (middle right) and Lucille Bremer (lower left) are stars of the 1940s who are practically forgotten today except by die hard (and, sorry to say, old) movie aficionados. Yet these three, (whose “A” films could be counted on the fingers […]