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Judging by the number of clicks registered by last week’s blogs about Judy Garland — Judy’s Peak Years published on Friday and Wednesday’s Star of the Week — Or Maybe Star of the Century — there is certainly a great deal of continued enthusiasm for and interest about this great star. And, today, to keep things going, we thought […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here again to continue for one more day our look at cougars — older woman of Hollywood-past bedding and wedding young men. Yesterday, we noted the surprising array of female stars who, in one way or the […]
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, […]
Hi, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here again with our THIRD blog devoted exclusively to Deanna Durbin. As with yesterday’s dispatch, we are inspired by a wonderful communication from Mark, one of our regular readers and a Durbin fan par excellance. Today, he sheds renewed light on […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys here again to declare without reservation that we love reader comments, the more informed and passionate the better. A passing mention of Thirties child star Deanna Durbin in our “More Child Stars” blog in late August […]
If one is good, then three are better. Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers back with more info on the MGM child stars of the 1930s. Every studio back in the Golden Era had a child star or two under contract. And at MGM, which boasted as being the biggest and the best, ( […]
By 1940, Hollywood was getting really anxious. The child star box office bonanza known as Shirley Temple was hurdling towards career-diminishing adolescence (she was born in 1928). Yet, movie audiences still craved a cute female tot performer who could at least for an hour-and-a-half at the local Bijou take their minds off that war raging […]
The young lady pictured above wasn’t really a child star, but she was only a youngster when she made her film debut. Do you know her? We know you don’t know THIS star. He or she is a tiny horse. And we’ve run his photo because, once again, dear readers we need your help. Felicia […]
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 […]