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Ok, you may ask, just who exactly is Charles McGraw, and why should we care? He is probably known today by a far more appreciative audience than he was in his Forties and Fifties noir heyday. No question, though: McGraw was never a star in a prestigious studio production. Establishment Hollywood pigeon-holed McGraw as a […]
Is there a more frustrating experience for a dedicated classic movie fan than being told at the local video store that a much-sought-after title perhaps a bit out of mainstream is NOT available on DVD? Hello, everybody. Your classic movie guys recalling today that we published not too long ago blogs about a pair worthy […]
The morning of Jan. 10, 1942, in the small town of Ballard deep in California’s Santa Ynez Mountains, Ava Gardner wed the first of her three husbands, Mickey Rooney. The bride, the first of Rooney’s eight wives, was a 19-year-old virgin not long off a low-rent tobacco farm in North Carolina. At 21, he was […]
Our recent blogs about Ava Gardner’s and her three husbands drew some reader mail — which we pay close attention to — particularly wondering about her choice of Mickey Rooney as husband No. 1. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to try and come up with the right […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, confessing today that we don’t often venture into music DVD’s even if the name Artie Shaw — equally renowned today for his Hollywood wives as for his music — crops up. Today is an exception, though Shaw is conspicuous by his absence. Getting to the […]
Is Ava Gardner more interesting today because of the men she married than for the movies she made? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to ponder that question considering that her three husbands were at the time she wed them among the most famous names on the planet. Gardner’s screen […]
There’s no doubt that Ava Gardner was one of the — if not the — most beautiful actress of Hollywood’s classic period. She nearly drove Frank Sinatra to suicide. Howard Hughes begged her to marry him. Actors fell over themselves to please this former “farm girl” from North Carolina. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your […]
Hollywood can be rough on sibling actors but those Sanders boys got on for the most part pretty well. No professional jealousy. For all their shortcoming, both felt the other was family, after all. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, continuing our series of periodic blogs on one of our favorite actors, […]
It was published in 1975, and for years thereafter author Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon set the standard for juicy, tell-all star guides. The book covered the scandal waterfront from the silent movie era through the 1960s, and it still makes for entertaining reading. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here […]
A few days ago we suggested films you might want to watch on New Year’s Eve. Joe’s favorite is Repeat Performance, a film noir with a twist ending. And for romantics we noted When Harry Met Sally might be a good choice. Hello, everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers her again. Mrs. Norman […]