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Again, we pose the question: is Ava Gardner more interesting today because of the men she married than for the movies she made? As discussed in Friday’s blog, one of Hollywood’s absolutely most beautiful actresses ever made some pretty good movies (see below) while at the same time wedding some pretty famous men. Which are more remembered, […]
Is Ava Gardner more interesting today because of the men she married than for the movies she made? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to ponder that question considering that her three husbands were at the time she wed them among the most famous names on the planet. Gardner’s screen […]
There’s no doubt that Ava Gardner was one of the — if not the — most beautiful actress of Hollywood’s classic period. She nearly drove Frank Sinatra to suicide. Howard Hughes begged her to marry him. Actors fell over themselves to please this former “farm girl” from North Carolina. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your […]
Hello, everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys here to announce that the answer, naturally, is both. After splitting with Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin continued a successful career in films with notable performances in Some Came Running with Frank Sinatra, Rio Bravo and The Sons of Katie Elder with John Wayne. Martin appeared in […]
Hello Everybody. Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers, your Classic Movie Guys, watching Mrs. Norman Maine working on that luau at the backyard barbecue. We still have Hawaii on our mind since today’s blog is another installment in our series (written by our Books 2 Movies maven Larry Michie) about the 1953 […]
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 […]
Esther Williams’ initial break in movies came not in an aquatic setting but as Mickey Rooney’s girlfriend in 1942’s “Andy Hardy’s Double Life.” The fan mail streamed in, always a sure signing of a budding star at MGM. Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here with more on America’s bathing beauty. By the time Esther […]
“Keep Betty Grable, Lamour and Turner.” Hello Everybody. Back again with a quiz or two. Many of you recognized that line opening today’s blog as a lyric from the Frank Sinatra hit song “Nancy with the Laughing Face.” It goes, “keep Betty Grable, Lamour and Turner, she makes my heart a charcoal burner, no […]