Here’s a classic — 1939’s Destry Rides Again — that is often overlooked. It broke new ground. The comic Western. And like all true classics it’s been remade, and even adapted as a musical for Broadway. But only the original is worthy of your attention. Some questions (and answers): Why is there no ‘Destry’ as […]
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More Dogs and Their Stars
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your clasic movie guys, here with another episode of star meets pooch. Last week we asked you to identify two famous Hollywoodites and the breed of their pets. It was, of course, Doris Day, a well known animal lover with her pet schnauzer and Humphrey Bogart with his great […]
MONDAY– No Mug Shots. Now We’re MOTORING
We still like aliteration, so we’ve come up with Motoring Mondays — Stars and their Cars. Yes, that’s Jimmy Stewart, posing with his Plymouth in the late 1930s. Hello everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to announce that for reasons completely beyond our control, our Mug Shot Monday series is in […]
Movies IN Novels
Hello everybody. This is Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again. Mrs. Norman Maine is outside walking the dachshund. Today we are delighted to welcome back our guest contributor Larry Michie, literary man of the world and former television editor of Variety. Larry has a special interest in how classic movies are handled in and by […]