As we’ve repeatedly mentioned, reader feedback to our blogs, good, bad or indifferent, is something we very much enjoy — and consider. Hello, everybody. Your classic movie guys are pondering the reasons why Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane was snubbed as best picture of 1941 at the Academy Awards. (John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley won […]
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What Was MARION DAVIES Really Like?
She was a showgirl with ambition. She wrote and starred in a silent film which showed that she had great promise as a light comedienne. But then her lover, the most powerful man in corporate America, took over and according to her, stunted her career rather than enhanced it. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank […]
NEWS BARONS and Their Hollywood Connecti...
He wasn’t a movie star, or a studio head, or even a producer or director, but he was once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. Hello, everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, reminiscing today about the early days of Hollywood. Mrs. Norman Maine is out having her hair […]
Our Cocktail Party
We decided to throw a party today and invite some of our favorite people. Hello everybody, Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers here again with Mrs. Norman Maine and Mr. Jordan. We’ve invited a diverse bunch to our little soiree today. A few of our writer friends, Addison […]