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Earlier this year we read an article that compared 2017 Oscar nominated films with classic movies. A sort of “if you liked this, watch this” kind of thing. The Shape of Water –– see 1954’s Creature From the Black Lagoon. Lady Bird — see 1937’s Stella Dallas. Phantom Thread — see 1940’s Rebecca. We agree. […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to finish out our Bette Davis quiz with answers to the final five questions. Take a look below, and if you’d like, let us know how you did. Here we go: Question: Where did Davis’ celebrated legal battle with Warner Bros. play […]
Bette Davis was, of course, not only a great and popular actress who launched a one-woman rebellion against the studio contract system than led to fundamental changes in the way Golden-age Hollywood did business. As we pointed out earlier, she asserted her independence long before the feminist movement was even heard of. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, […]
Ok, we admit it. Classic Movie Chat has not given Bette Davis her just due. While we have, for example, published many blogs about Davis contemporary Deanna Durbin, our cupboard is pretty much bare when it comes to this great star. Davis was, of course, not only a great and popular actress — her $328,477 annual salary earned in 1946 […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys here again to ponder what the Tinseltown version of a World War II “canteen” was like. Yesterday we told of the glories of the 1943 film “Stage Door Canteen — A Soldier’s Story,” and how it’s not to be missed by anyone who wants […]
They Got an Oscar for THAT? Not really. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, reflecting on the Academy’s quirk of casting, in what in effect are, sympathy votes. And, please, enjoy today’s great photos of two stars at their physical peaks. Ain’t they gorgeous? In the history of Academy Awards there are […]
The people who bring you the Oscars — The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences — has changed its nominating procedures so many times that through the years it’s produced some interesting complications. Hello, everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers, your Classic Movie Guys, here again. In today’s installment of […]