Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, back again with another meditation about the amazing show biz “canteens” of World War II. The 1943 film “Stage Door Canteen — A Soldier’s Story” not only provided entertainment for the troops and folks back home, but it captured some of the best entertainers […]
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LADIES OF BURLESQUE
Today a director might be able to get away with real bumps and grinds while filming a movie about burlesque queens, but in Hollywood’s hay day (with censorship) a director had to be damned clever. Hello everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers again. And just who are these two women pictured above, anyway? (Read on!) […]
THE TRAGEDY OF EARLY STARDOM
How can a beautiful woman change so quickly into a floozy “broad”? Alcohol and drugs have decimated many a Hollywood star. And the story of Gloria Dickson is one of quick rise and quick fall. Hello Everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again. Joe was re-watching one of his favorite films, 1943’s “Lady of […]