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Hello, everybody. Your classic movie guys, Frank Segers and Joe Morella, reporting today we have been so inspired by The Richard Burton Diaries –edited by Chris Williams, published by Yale University Press, 2012 — that we are presenting this quiz designed to test your knowledge of the actor (and what’s-her-name, the woman he married twice). […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, in an especially fraternal mood today since we are returning to a favorite subject, movie star brothers on the big screen. You know, George Sanders and Tom Conway, James Arness and Peter Graves, Lawrence Tierney and Scott Brady, Dana Andrews and Steve Forrest, et […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, confessing today that we don’t often venture into music DVD’s even if the name Artie Shaw — equally renowned today for his Hollywood wives as for his music — crops up. Today is an exception, though Shaw is conspicuous by his absence. Getting to the […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back again at one of our favorite stands, that is, responding to the most welcome reader email we receive. Please feel free to drop those cards, letters, emails, Facebook and Twitter utterances our way. We love ’em. We’ve discovered that very mention of the […]
Again, we pose the question: is Ava Gardner more interesting today because of the men she married than for the movies she made? As discussed in Friday’s blog, one of Hollywood’s absolutely most beautiful actresses ever made some pretty good movies (see below) while at the same time wedding some pretty famous men. Which are more remembered, […]
Is Ava Gardner more interesting today because of the men she married than for the movies she made? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to ponder that question considering that her three husbands were at the time she wed them among the most famous names on the planet. Gardner’s screen […]
Today we begin a yet another new feature. For the summer we are going to feature one star each week. We start off by spotlighting one of the biggest and brightest stars of the 1940s, the woman pictured above, Academy Award winner Jennifer Jones. We’ve asked Joe’s long time writing partner, Ed Epstein, who has written […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to introduce our initial “best-of” set of choices, starting off in the film noir category. But we have a twist, ours are the best film noir you’ve probably never heard of. We hope the following will inspire you to sample these fine […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to introduce a new periodic feature of Classicmoviechat.com — our picks of the best titles in various movie genres. A few words of caution. We certainly don’t consider ourselves critics, and our selections reflect highly personal biases, which we not only admit to but relish. And, […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to reveal that — mirabile dictu — we do NOT always agree about the merits of a particular movie or a particular star. (Gadzooks! Can that be true?) For example, we are fully in accord about Audrey Hepburn — big fans, […]