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Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to ponder once again the nature of that notoriously intense relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. Was it love or was it something else? Question — did it ever anger a jealous Richard Burton, Taylor’s most famous partner two times over? (He was Taylor’s […]
It seems to us that if any Hollywood actresses have a claim on eternal public life, they would have to include (in no special order) Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. Monroe remains the subject of periodic fascination, often expressed in photographs, books and, perhaps, with a PHD thesis or two. Taylor’s estate still brings […]
A Place In The Sun was re-released in London last month, shining attention in the British press on director George Steven’s 1951 study of love, sex and class as well as on the film’s timeless co-stars, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to ponder the […]
They portrayed mother and daughter in two of the most popular films of the early Fifties, and they shared a birthday. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back with more interesting info about one of the most interesting, yet overlooked stars of the Golden Age — Joan Bennett. Bennett’s last […]
QUESTION: Did you happen to see the article in The New York Times style section about wedding gowns? It was about the new film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn –Part I (No. 1 in world box office, by the way), and about how what everyone is REALLY waiting to see is the wedding gown that actress […]
One of the most interesting developments of recent movie history is the commercial resurgence of 3D, that once quaint movie gimmick that first flourished for about a three or four-year period in the early 1950’s. The big Hollywood studios back then were terrified of television, and any theatrical come-on was considered fair advantage by the […]
They Got an Oscar for THAT? Not really. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, reflecting on the Academy’s quirk of casting, in what in effect are, sympathy votes. And, please, enjoy today’s great photos of two stars at their physical peaks. Ain’t they gorgeous? In the history of Academy Awards there are […]
Despite her relentlessly cheerful on-screen demeanor, “America’s Mermaid” — one of MGM’s biggest stars of the Forties and Fifties –was no simpering pollyanna. Judging by Esther Williams‘ outspoken comments about her famous fellow workers, she subscribed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s naughty dictum. Said Teddy’s daughter, “If you […]
Hello again. Joe Morella and Frank Segers back to share another photo from the Donald Gordon Collection. This illustrates that off screen, while just as beautiful as they were on film many stars were not THAT recognizable. Without their makeup (and in the case of many male stars like Bing Crosby and Humphrey Bogart, their […]
Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here. That song lyric, about Audrey Hepburn and Liz Taylor set us to thinking. And, since her death, awhile back, friends have been asking when we were going to devote a blog to Elizabeth Taylor. While she wasn’t a favorite of Frank’s. Joe remembers her fondly for […]