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The Andrews Sisters were famous in the 1940s and 50s, but did you know about the Andrews Brothers? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back with answers to those fraternal questions we posed last Friday. Carver Dana Andrews and William Forrest Andrews were both film stars in Hollywood’s Golden era. […]
Did Raymond Burr ever play nice guys in the movies? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to perform one of our more enjoyable exercises. As you probably can tell from the catchall headline to today’s blog, we are about to answer some reader email. Our Dec. 20 piece, […]
I have just learned that a majority of the people who become abnormal drinkers are superior in intelligence and are almost always introverts. — Dana Andrews, 1951 In this quote from author Carl Rollyson’s new biography, Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews, the actor is describing himself in a letter to his beloved and somewhat long-suffering wife, […]
You may be hearing a bit more than usual lately about Dana Andrews, and that to us is a very good thing. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today proclaim our admiration for Andrews, who correctly has been characterized as “one of the most undervalued actors in film history.” […]
WE’LL NEVER FORGET SUSAN WHAT’S ‘ER NAME Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers back again It’s not easy for either of us at the moment to come up with the name of a bigger Hollywood star of the Forties and Fifties less remembered today than Susan Hayward. Disagree? Well give us a holler, and […]
A WALK IN THE SUN – IS IT THE BEST MOVIE TO COME OUT OF WW II ? Hello Everybody. Mister Joe Morella and Mister Frank Segers here again . Today we all – notably including our esteemed Books to Movies contributor Larry Michie – have our say about one of the best movies […]