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Towards the end of his life, George Sanders was hell to interview. In a late Sixties exchange with critic Rex Reed, he was asked about which of his leading ladies he most enjoyed working with. Was Bette Davis, his costar in 1950’s All About Eve (which won the dyspeptic Sanders a best supporting actor Oscar) […]
“America’s Mermaid” Esther Williams, who passed away last Thursday (June 6) at the age of 91, built a glittering movie career in the Forties and Fifties by looking relentlessly cheerful on-screen and just plain gorgeous in a bathing suit. The great news is that off-camera, Esther turned out to be a lusty, outspoken woman who seemed […]
We’re always going on on these pages about The Third Man. So with this week’s Mystery Monday Photo we’ve decided to concentrate on The Third Woman. Hello. everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, with another Monday challenge to identify the personalities featured in candid shots from our photo collection. We’re betting […]
Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here again with more dirt on Van Johnson. By 1945, Johnson was voted by movie theater owners as the No. 2 biggest box office star, second only to Bing Crosby. But questions still were asked about his sexual preferences. As author Scott Eyman recounts […]
Older women bedding and wedding younger men is nothing new in Hollywood. Keeping straight who’s hitched to whom in contemporary Hollywood is always a challenge. But we can say that Madonna, Liza Minnelli, Priscilla Presley, Roseanne Barr, Mira Sorvino, Fran Drescher, Vanna White and Barbara Hershey are among the many actresses who are currently, were, or […]
Hello everybody, Classic Movie guys Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again. Today we’ve decided to come clean and, in the immortal words of the late Howard Cosell, tell it like it is. Ok, we admit it. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE JUDY IN OUR LIVES. Of course there is the Frances Gumm of […]