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Often two celebrities (or legends) are photographed together, but it isn’t often you find three. The trio presented above obviously have a great deal in common. Besides making some classic movies, they represent three of the greatest voices of the 20th century. But the trio below? What an unusual gathering. Who are these folks? […]
Frankly, we were a bit concerned that our Feb. 13 blog, JOE FRANKLIN — Classic Movie Fan Extraordinaire, would not be fully comprehensible to those of you living outside the New York City area. After all, Franklin — who died on Jan. 24 of prostate cancer at age 88 — may not exactly have been […]
One of the more curious career trajectories in classic movie history was enjoyed, if that’s the term, by Jane Greer. A looker from childhood, she was a decent singer turned actress who just happened to light up the screen in perhaps the best film noir ever made, 1947’s Out of the Past. Following her transcendent […]
The reason we chose Louis Jourdan as the subject of our weekly Monday Quiz is to not only commemorate his passing, but to spread the word around a bit about the finer points of his extensive movie career both in Hollywood and Europe. Yes, we assume you knew of Jourdan from Gigi. (There’s our man […]
Louis Jourdan died on Friday, Feb. 13 — a decidedly unlucky day for him — in Beverly Hills, California at age 93. (Note: Press accounts differ on the actual day of his death. For purely cinematic reasons, we prefer Friday the 13 to the Valentine’s Day often listed.) Most of you probably know the former […]
Back in February of 2013, we published a blog asking the question, Was Van Johnson Gay? It was about 10 months after we established classicmoviechat.com, and we were feeling our way (1,000 blogs later, we still are). In our blog, we confessed to being fans of Johnson. That didn’t prevent us from dispassionately analyzing his somewhat […]
As you can probably tell from our catchall headline, it’s time once again to dip into our e-mail bag and bring ourselves up to date on the latest gems. From faithful reader Mike Sheridan comes this thought re our Jan. 15 blog, The Best Ever Classic Sports Movies: Being obscure guys, there are two, very […]
In our Feb. 12 blog, Two More Historical Couples Interested Filmmakers, we asked you — our ever alert audience — to identify two sets of historical figures that made the transition from real to reel and have been the subjects of various movies. At least one reader identified Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera last […]
It occurs that without the seven James Bond pictures he made, Sean Connery would have had a solid career as an accomplished working actor highlighting a variety of genres from war pictures to elfin fantasies to Shakespeare and outright comedies. But his stint as 007 — initially opposed by Bond creator Ian Fleming — made Connery […]
It may come as a bit of a shock to learn that seemingly ageless Sean Connery will turn 85 this August. His seven movies as James Bond are indelibly part of film history. Did anyone play 007 any better? That’s a discussion for another day. Our Monday Quiz featuring Connery is focused largely on the […]