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Today we begin a yet another new feature. For the summer we are going to feature one star each week. We start off by spotlighting one of the biggest and brightest stars of the 1940s, the woman pictured above, Academy Award winner Jennifer Jones. We’ve asked Joe’s long time writing partner, Ed Epstein, who has written […]
She holds the title for having the longest career in movies. She started in 1912 and made her last film 75 years later in 1987. Lillian Gish is truly the First Lady Of Film. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers back again to salute the woman who may not have won an Oscar, but gives […]
As we mentioned last week — one good book plug deserves another, after all — one of the most pleasurable reads we’ve come across lately is British critic-author’s David Thomson’s new book, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies, which includes a concise and pointed chapter titled, Ingrid Sees A Movie. Hello, everybody. Joe […]
Was she? or Wasn’t she? That old ad slogan (does she or doesn’t she) comes to mind. Well, she WAS. The most famous child star of all time — so far. Hello everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers here. Mrs. Norman Maine has left the building. Shirley Temple. She’s had a drink […]
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 […]
Hello everybody. Morella and Segers here again with a never before seen photo of a radio star who also made movies. Recognize her? She was big in her day. YESTERDAY’S PIC: That marvelously playful photo of Joseph Cotten dancing with Jennifer Jones and Claudette Colbert in the arms of Robert Walker is glorious. How […]