Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to reinforce the notion that we LOVE reader response in any electronic form you choose. The more we get, the happier we are. Frank took some time off recently, and received a semi-alarmed note from Joe that the flow of comments from readers has […]
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Charles Jackson’s ‘Lost Weekend’ In Holl
Although it may surprise our readers under the age of 40, there once was a time when the big Hollywood studios fell all over themselves to attract successful novelists and playwrights and turn them into commercial screenwriters. To be a literary lion wasn’t a bad thing as long as your work could be translated at the box office. […]
‘Lost Weekend’ — ‘Great’ Movie But ‘Nast
We hadn’t heard for a while from our Books2Movies maven, Larry Michie, and thus were delighted that he agreed to our proposal to compare the book and movie versions of The Lost Weekend. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to […]
RAY MILLAND — In A Straightjacket?
“You’ll go to that ceremony tonight if we have to put you in a straightjacket.” Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to reveal that many (make that most!) of the performers who have won Academy Awards suffer through the experience — the buildup, the uncertainty, the self-doubts — in […]
Test your knowledge of old time stars.
Who is this gorgeous Fox star of the 1940’s whose short life ended after a house fire broke out while she was watching one of her early movies? Hello Everybody: (reminds you of Kate Smith a bit, doesn’t it? ) Well, Joe Morella and Frank Segers here and have been for over two weeks […]