JUST HOW MUCH DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT HUMPHREY BOGART ? Hello everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again. Today we have a real challenge for you. It revolves around one our favorite personalities and probably one of yours as well. So, here we go. There is absolutely no question that Humphrey Bogart remains […]
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How Tall Stand the Oscar Winners?
Recently The New York Times ran a chart about the height of men who have won the Oscar for Best Actor. The tallest was John Wayne at 6’4”. The shortest, Richard Dreyfuss at 5′ 5″. Hello Everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers here. MRS. Norman Maine out buying a tape measure. Why is it that […]
Alan Ladd — The Shortest Leading Man In
He was probably the shortest leading man Hollywood ever produced. Through the years there have been many versions of just how tall he was (read on for our count). There have been many stories about leading ladies having to stand on a box to photograph love scenes with him. Whatever the truth is, Alan Ladd […]
FROM THE MAILBAG: Duke & Vera, The Ladds
Nothing tickles our fancy more than to hear back from you, faithful readers. Otherwise, we tend to feel like that tree in the forest that no one hears falling. Fortunately, our readers are vocal, inquisitive — and very smart. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, to reveal today some of […]
Remember-They were Published Here First
The photos above, of Alan Ladd and Buster Crabbe, are snapshots taken of the stars by the late Donald Gordon, super fan of the 1940’s. Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers back with another reminder that Classic Movie Chat is the only site on which you’ll find ORIGINAL, never before seen photographs from […]
DON’T BOGART THAT JOINT
Hello Everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers here again. OK. Let’s see how you did with our Humphrey Bogart Quiz We deliberately tried to avoid slam-dunk questions, and tried to genuinely test your knowledge about the most enduring star to emerge from the classic Hollywood studio era. Like the weekly cliff-hanging movie serials […]
HOW TALL WAS ALAN LADD?
Hello everybody. Morella and Segers here. The never before published photo of Alan Ladd which we ran yesterday — (he once said of himself that he had the face of an aging choirboy) — was taken by Donald Gordon in the early-to-mid 1940’s when Ladd was at the height of his reign as Paramount […]
How tall was BOGART?
JUST HOW MUCH DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT HUMPHREY BOGART ? Hello everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again, with the photo of another short star. Today we have a real challenge for you. It revolves around one our favorite personalities and probably one of yours as well. So, here we go. There is […]