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Ok, you may ask, just who exactly is Charles McGraw, and why should we care? He is probably known today by a far more appreciative audience than he was in his Forties and Fifties noir heyday. No question, though: McGraw was never a star in a prestigious studio production. Establishment Hollywood pigeon-holed McGraw as a […]
A lot of us have admired Alfred Hitchock’s Vertigo ever since it first came out in 1958. Even so, we must confess we were slightly surprised by the movie’s official designation in 2012 as “the greatest film ever made.” This came about courtesy of the highly respected British movie journal Sight & Sound published by the […]
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 […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, once again dipping into e-mail bag to unearth recent reader correspondence. And, we are both pleased and a tad red-faced to discover that our all correspondents this time have nice things to say about us. (We love it, we love it!) Since we are still […]
Take yourselves back to 1941. Cary Grant’s star was very much on the rise but his reputation rested in Hollywood as much or more on the successful comedies he made such as The Awful Truth costarring Irene Dunne (sharing the photographic limelight with Grant and unnamed canine above) and Bringing Up Baby rather than on “serious roles.” In […]
She was the most delightful woman. Charming, witty, fun to be with and an absolute necessity if one was to spend any time with her husband, the famed director. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back with more of Joe’s reminiscences of Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville. Joe worked with […]
There are two films currently making the rounds about Alfred Hitchcock. One is HBO’s The Girl, about the famed director’s obsession with actress Tippi Hedren, star of 1963’s The Birds and Marnie, made the following year (and costarring Sean Connery). The other is Hitchcock, a feature starring Anthony Hopkins about the making of 1960’s Psycho. Do either […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, reminding ourselves today that it’s time to catch up a couple of recent reader email. (Need we say again that we’d love to hear from you?) We were happy to scoop the world (we wish!) on Aug. 23 with our breathless dispatch (News Flash […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today poring over enlightening missives received late last year. And, did we mention that we love hearing from you, our ever-alert audience. In our blog of Dec. 19 — Are Classic Movies Best Viewed In Theaters? — Frank had the temerity to suggest […]