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He was the lovelorn sidekick in The Third Man, memorably snubbed by Alida Valli. He was Jennifer Jones’ romantic esthete-hero in Portrait of Jennie, Teresa Wright’s serial killer uncle in Shadow of a Doubt and Ingrid Bergman’s class-bound husband in Under Capricorn. But most of all, he played key roles in two Orson Welles masterpieces: the conscience of […]
Hello, everybody. Your classic movie guys noting that we have probably received more (and more impassioned) emails about the late Deanna Durbin than any other star we’ve written about. And we’ve written about her nearly a dozen different times, the latest blog (Farewell Deanna, May 7) occasioned by her death on April 30 at the age of […]
Hello everybody. This is Mister Joe Morella and Mister Frank Segers here again.. Once again we welcome back our regular and increasingly prolific guest contributor, Larry Michie. Larry, entranced by how some books are turned into some of the best classic movies, discusses a beauty today. So, here’s Larry….. Graham Greene (1904-1991) was a […]
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 […]