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Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to reinforce the notion that we LOVE reader response in any electronic form you choose. The more we get, the happier we are. Frank took some time off recently, and received a semi-alarmed note from Joe that the flow of comments from readers has […]
When George Sanders killed himself — by downing a fatal mixture of Nembutal and vodka in a seaside resort hotel suite some 10 miles south of Barcelona, Spain — the world concluded that the 65-year-old actor known for the silky cynicism of the characters he played onscreen for nearly four decades simply tired of life, and decided to pack it in. […]
Hello everybody, classic movie guys Joe Morella and Frank Segers back with another of our several blogs covering the life and career of one of our favorite actors — George Sanders. Sanders was married four times, most famously to wife No. 2, Zsa Zsa Gabor from 1949 to 1954. (The actor was later married at wife No. 2’s urging to […]
When George Sanders was about to start production on 1950’s All About Eve his then wife Zsa Zsa Gabor asked him to get her a small part in the picture, little more than a walk-on in the last minutes of the film. Sanders […]
Hollywood can be rough on sibling actors but those Sanders boys got on for the most part pretty well. No professional jealousy. For all their shortcoming, both felt the other was family, after all. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, continuing our series of periodic blogs on one of our favorite actors, […]
There have been few Hollywood actors who could match George Sanders for supercilious nastiness onscreen (and perhaps off as well). As drama critic-narrator Addison de Witt in 1950’s All About Eve, he gave what critic David Thomson describes as a supreme demonstration of soft-spoken, tranquil caddishness. He also stole the show, and won an Oscar in the process. The […]
“You’re maudlin and full of self pity… You’re magnificent.” This, one of our all time favorite movie lines, was superbly delivered by George Sanders in 1950’s “All About Eve.” It is directed at Bette Davis as stage diva Margo Channing in the throes of an temperamental explosion encapsulized by the familiar line: “Fasten your seat […]