Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys winding up today our series on the show biz canteens of World War II. Since it was two of Warner Brothers’ biggest stars, Bette Davis and John Garfield (pictured above), who were the inspiration behind The Hollywood Canteen, it seemed only natural that that […]
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Hollywood Outshines “Stage Door”
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys here again to ponder what the Tinseltown version of a World War II “canteen” was like. Yesterday we told of the glories of the 1943 film “Stage Door Canteen — A Soldier’s Story,” and how it’s not to be missed by anyone who wants […]
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 […]
WHO IS THIS?
Hello everybody. MRS. Norman Maine is out looking for her husband, but Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers are back again. Today we have a REAL mystery. We can across this snap of Donald Gordon with someone we can’t identify and we’re hoping you out there can help. At first we thought he was […]
MORE HEMINGWAY–This time with Bacall
Hello Everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again with more musings on Hemingway books to Movies from Larry Michie. Larry says, “Before weighing the last two Hemingway-based motion pictures, one of which was both worthy and popular, the other scorned but with a lot of freight that often gets overlooked, it’s appropriate to scan […]