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One of the great pleasures we’ve experienced of late is reading through the newly -published My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles (Henry Holt and Company, Metropolitan Books). Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to recommend this highly readable book put together from many luncheon chats […]
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 […]
What was it about Howard Hughes? Why was he catnip to so many beautiful Hollywood actresses? Couldn’t have been his gorgeous good looks. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today wondering if even our beloved Mrs. Norman Maine had an illicit affair with Hughes. The great Hollywood raconteur Oscar Levant recalled […]
Hello Everybody, Those men are here again — Joe Morella and Frank Segers. Today we have a guest review. Daniela Gioseffi, of Brooklyn Heights has rediscovered the classic film “Jane Eyre” and wants to share her thoughts with us. “The 1943 classic film, Jane Eyre, directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien, […]