Although today most people think of Red Skelton as a star of Television, he was, in fact a big Film star. No question that the comedian reached vast audiences via his radio and tv shows — the latter forming the mainstay of CBS’ Tuesday night prime time schedules from 1953 to 1970. Skelton was often […]
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Scary Movie: Joe’s Pick and Frank’s — An
Tomorrow’s Halloween. And we all have a list of our favorite scariest movies. What are yours? Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here again. Joe’s not much into horror films but his favorite scary movie IS a classic, The Birds. He finds that Alfred Hitchcock film more frightening than any so called […]
MYSTERY MONDAY MOMENT — Minus Mom
OK, we admit it. We cropped out the wife and mother in the above photo. She was simply TOO recognizable. Today’s challenge is to identify dad and the children. Can you? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here with another goofy Monday exercise built around a period candid photo unearthed […]
DID LORETTA YOUNG HAVE AN ILLEGIMATE CHI...
Joe Morella, one half the classic movie chat team (Frank Segers is the other) here solo today to reveal some little known info on the movie star of the 30s and 40s and GIGANTIC TV star of the 1950s, Loretta Young. Ever since Judy Lewis, Loretta’s daughter, died last month, Frank has been pressuring me to write […]
Answers To Our ACTOR QUIZ — You Heard It
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to come clean. We admit. We may, after all, have been too tough. Our blog of Dec. 7 — Pearl Harbor Day, by the way — asked you to identify the two actors […]
PUBLISHED HERE FIRST
Hi, everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers back again with a special note to you. We at Classic Movie Chat pride ourselves on bringing you photos that have never been seen before on any other blog. In fact these photos have never been published before –ANYWHERE. That’s because they are […]
SECOND GENERATION HOLLYWOOD
Many children of stars enter show business. Some with great success, others with no success at all. Few exceed their famous parents. Hello Everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers her again with a photo of some famous parents and their successful offspring. You know him as Jack Jones. While not a movie star Jack had […]
Jamie Lee Curtis’ Parents–and their woes
Ah, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis! The IDEAL Hollywood couple. (Read on) Hello everybody. Morella and Segers back with more on Janet and Tony Beautiful young movie stars such as Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, although supposedly living the life of marital bliss with two young daughters, were certainly susceptible to temptation and Hollywood gossip. […]
TONY CURTIS AND JANET LEIGH –a Hollywood
First, let’s set the pivotal scene…. The small wedding party gathered on a beautiful spring day outside the courthouse in Greenwich, Conn. The ceremony was delayed by the late arrival of the best man, Jerry Lewis, who had earlier advised Janet and Tony against their marriage (but later recanted). Hello Everybody. Joe Morella and Frank […]
WHERE’D YA GET THAT NAME?
Hello everybody. Mrs. Norman Maine is out looking for the man that got away. But Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers are here, still chatting about classic movies and movie stars. We all know Whoopie Goldberg appropriated her name from whoopie cushion back when she was a stand up comic, and that Nicholas […]