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Today we’re on the Road with Bing, Bob, and Dottie (That’s Crosby, Hope and Lamour). It was indisputably the most successful of movie series and the only one starring 3 top stars, who could and did carry films on their own. How much do you know about the 7 Road To… films? They were all […]
The death last week of Opera’s great mezzo-soprano, Rise Stevens (at the age of 99!), who most classic movie fans remember from 1944’s Going My Way — yes, she’s billed right up there with Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald — made us consider what other stars of that genre had been successful in movies. Hello, everybody. Joe […]
She was never really “an actress.” Her movie acting credits number less than 20, and all of them are in musical contexts. Rosemary Clooney (perhaps best known today as George’s aunt) was a superb singer, though, with career parallels to another marginal actor, the immensely gifted vocalist by the name of Bing Crosby. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella […]
What film to watch on New Year’s Eve? We know that’s the question most people are struggling with as they approach 2013. Hello Everybody. Morella and Segers here to wind up 2012 with a quiz about movies with a New Year’s theme or scene. But first the answers to last week’s quiz about Christmas films. […]
A few days ago when we were discussing Christmas films we thought of White Christmas and Danny Kaye’s name came up. There are certain performers that are today overlooked — a gentle word for “forgotten” — although they were very big in their time. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to show and tell about the two child performers discussed in our “Who Are They…” quiz. We gave them the benefit of considerable doubt in qualifying them as “big child stars.” (They weren’t all that big.) And we gave you, faithful readers, […]
Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back again to report that Ms. Norman Maine is STILL Missing. Today, we pose a REAL challenge. If you can identify the two subjects above, you will be awarded our informal child-star-sleuth-of-the-year award. (That and a token will get you on a New York subway.) Because of their limited […]
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 […]
The chant “going to the movies” for those of a certain age arouses nostalgic goose bumps. Do you get goosebumps at the prospect of patronizing today’s local multiplex? No? We thought not. Hi everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys back again, and waxing nostalgic. To help out, we’ve invited a […]