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Classic Hollywood’s seemingly endless search for suitable European lover types yielded some notable successes — and some stumbling failures. Chalk up the man pictured directly below in the success column. A native of France’s Cahors wine district, that’s Charles Boyer, a genuine star whose Hollywood career many included leading roles in a host of movies […]
Some time ago, Joe told Frank about his encounter with the great star of the 1940’s Dorothy Lamour. Frank loved the telling, and would love a repeat. Thus, today’s blog. As the author and coauthor of more than 20 books about such celebrated Hollywoodians as Lana Turner, Lucille Ball, Loretta Young and Mia Farrow, Joe […]
He was already a star in French films when David O. Selznick brought him to Hollywood. He will forever be known for playing the bored, worldly playboy who falls for the title character (Leslie Caron, upper left) in Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 musical Gigi. He was stereotyped early on as the Continental lover complete with charming […]
How much did you know about today’s Quiz subject, who carved out quite a presence on tv as well as on the big screen. We’re talking Rosemary De Camp here. Yup, she specialized in playing mothers — older, still a bit sexy and often possessing a sometimes ruthless intelligence. She’s shown below in one of […]
Here’s part of reader Dan’s comment (June 10) regarding the 1947 cast of Nora Prentiss, a solid film noir if there ever was one. I love ‘Nora Prentiss.’ Kent Smith was the perfect schlub. All he wanted was a little happiness. I don’t have time today but I really want to talk a bit about one of […]
It’s Friday, and time for our final installment this week of photos re-released from our exclusive Donald Gordon Collection. The challenge to identify these DG classic Hollywood subjects is really tougher today. Yesterday’s, we saw Donald pose with Buster Crabbe, Linda Darnell and Preston Foster. The solo shot was of Laird Cregar. Did you recognize […]
Ok, we admit it. We are taking it a bit easy this week. (Hey, it’s summer, and it’s hot where we are.) That give us an excellent excuse to re-run today a few more of Donald Gordon’s snapshots. Yesterday, we showed you some of Donald’s more famous Hollywood subjects: Betty Grable, Joan Crawford, Esther Williams […]
For the last seven years we’ve shared some photos from the Donald Gordon Collection with you. Here today are four of the best. At this point, you might well ask, just who is Donald Gordon, and how did we come by his stash of eye-catching photos? John Madden, our late pal and fellow classic movie-lover, […]
Yup, that’s Tom Conway (above), George Sanders’ older brother by two years. Conway was dubbed “the nice George Sanders.” (He was born Thomas Charles Sanders, but changed his surname. The two brothers are pictured below.) Conway had a low-key but decent career, and is best remembered for his appearances in 1942’s Cat People and 1943’s I Walked […]
An unusual Monday Quiz today. Instead of answering specific questions about each of these three chaps, we want to know: (a) just who are these people; (b) who is their (in two cases) more famous sibling; …and (c) the title of least one of the films most often associated with the more celebrated frere. As […]