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There are so many classic films shot in the City of Light that is difficult for us to pick only one. So we’ll highlight three: Breathless, Charade, and Amelie. Breathless, director Jean-Luc Godard’s French new wave salute to Hollywood film noir, is about a small-time car thief on the run, wanted for the murder of a policeman. […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, once again dipping into e-mail bag to unearth recent reader correspondence. And, we are both pleased and a tad red-faced to discover that our all correspondents this time have nice things to say about us. (We love it, we love it!) Since we are still […]
Take yourselves back to 1941. Cary Grant’s star was very much on the rise but his reputation rested in Hollywood as much or more on the successful comedies he made such as The Awful Truth costarring Irene Dunne (sharing the photographic limelight with Grant and unnamed canine above) and Bringing Up Baby rather than on “serious roles.” In […]
O.K., classic movie fans, you have your work cut out for you this time. Hi, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here today to present another snapshot from our special Donald Gordon Collection of never-before-seen photos taken way back in early-Forties Hollywood. Who is this woman? (And, by the way, don’t you love that headpiece?) […]
Hello Everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here to report that — yes, finally, after a couple of months — we heard from a Susan Hayward fan who disagrees with us when we say she is today a forgotten star. (Check out our blog to this effect which ran on July 14.) Philippe Elan writes, […]
Anyone who’s familiar with Alfred Hitchcock knows that one of his favorite stories was about how he got around the censors in 1946 to film what he described as the longest screen kiss. Hello everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers here to talk about Mr. Cary Grant […]