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Today we begin a yet another new feature. For the summer we are going to feature one star each week. We start off by spotlighting one of the biggest and brightest stars of the 1940s, the woman pictured above, Academy Award winner Jennifer Jones. We’ve asked Joe’s long time writing partner, Ed Epstein, who has written […]
In the past few weeks we’ve been discussing films which have been celebrating their 50th and 60th birthdays. (Jeez, how time flies.) But what about those classics which are 70 this year? 70! Imagine it. Can you think of a film released this year which even has a chance to be remembered 70 years from […]
Hello everybody. Morella and Segers here again with a never before seen photo of a radio star who also made movies. Recognize her? She was big in her day. YESTERDAY’S PIC: That marvelously playful photo of Joseph Cotten dancing with Jennifer Jones and Claudette Colbert in the arms of Robert Walker is glorious. How […]
Who exactly was the third man? Not Cotten, he was looking for the third man. Hello everybody. Morella and Segers here at the old stand. You may not know this but British director Carol Reed’s 1949 classic “The Third Man” was meant to end happily. At least that’s what the producers wanted. Reed had […]
Hello Everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here once again Let’s start with this question: How can you resist a picture that (1) began production a week late, awaiting the arrival of the leading man’s false teeth; that (2) featured a principal character whose surname sounds suspiciously like “Dan Rather”; that (3) was directed […]