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We introduce our Quiz today with this recollection: The late Ernest Borgnine, who so convincingly played the role of sadistic Army sergeant “Fatso” Judson — stabbed to death by Robert E. Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift, above) in 1953’s From Here To Eternity – recalled in his autobiography that Clift had in a way mentored him as a young […]
Again, Happy Holidays fans of Classicmoviechat. We along with you all have our favorite films for the holidays. Our’s include 1945’s Christmas in Connecticut costarring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan and our man Sydney Greenstreet. It’s about a faux food journalist (Stanwyck) fearing exposure by her boss. Most tasty. Then there is 1940’s Remember the Night, also […]
As you surely know by now, one of our very favorite pastimes is receiving and responding to email from readers. We love it, and devote today’s blog to catching up with some recent missives, comments and (best of all) recommendations about good films to see. Robert Preston was known primarily as a stage performer […]
She could easily portray “a woman who drives men to the brink of disaster merely on a whim.” She also felt right at home as the boss’ mistress, or coolly administering a shot of sodium pentothal to coerce the villain to come clean about a murder. She was and will always be remembered as one […]
Hello, everybody. Your classic movie guys here today to provide a heartfelt Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays to you, our faithful readers. Dave Kehr, formerly of the The New York Times, hit on something when he questioned why one of our favorite films is pretty much the standard bearer of Christmas movies. Wrote Kehr in the Sunday […]
To get some idea of how much Hollywood revered James Stewart, one could do worse than check out the quotes on the back jacket of author Marc Eliot’s 2006 biography of the actor, to which we are indebted both for yesterday’s quiz questions and today’s answers. Wrote director Frank Capra: “Probably the best actor who’s […]
Last week, we confessed our cardinal sin of omission in neglecting the legacy of Edward G. Robinson. This week we atone for our even more grievous error of underplaying the sensational career of one one Hollywood’s truly classic stars, James Stewart. To make up somewhat for Stewart’s underexposure here, we decided to devote today’s quiz […]
Although many think she is most remembered for her sibling rivalry with another top star of the 1940s, older sister Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine was nonetheless a highly popular and Academy Award winning star in her own right. Read her excellent autobiography, No Bed of Roses, published in 1978 and get her side of the […]
Over the last few weeks some of the biggest stars of the Golden Era in Hollywood have passed away. Recently we’ve lost Eleanor Parker, Peter O’Toole, Joan Fontaine and Audrey Totter. That’s quite a haul in a short period by the Almighty. Of these, O’Toole commanded the biggest headlines, front page in The New York Times (which […]
Over the last few weeks some of the biggest stars of the Golden Era in Hollywood have passed away. Recently we’ve lost Eleanor Parker, Peter O’Toole and Joan Fontaine. Over the next few days we’d like to pay tribute to these actors who brightened the big screen and provided us with some of the best […]