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Just as Avis never overtook Hertz. Jayne Mansfield never eclipsed Marilyn Monroe, but she sure was a presence in the 1950s. How much do you know about the blonde sexpot? Her A-list contemporaries dismissed her as a no-talent, publicity-seeking sexpot. Bette Davis famously remarked that her definition of “dramatic art” was knowing how to fill […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to offer a short appreciation of one of our favorite unsung actors, Louis Calhern. Fans of Fifties MGM movies will immediately identify the distinguished-looking Calhern from his prominent portrayals of some very prominent historical figures — among them, Julius Caesar in Joseph […]
He’s one star who hasn’t faded. In fact this week down in Key Largo, Humphrey Bogart’s son, Stephen, will host the first Humphrey Bogart Film Festival. Hello Everybody. Morella and Segers here with the answers to some of those questions about one of the durable stars Hollywood ever produced. How did you do with our Humphrey […]
As we mentioned in a previous blog, it seems to us that if any Hollywood actresses have a claim on eternal public life, they would have to include (in no special order) Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. Hepburn’s image still has great currency, and currently adorns the May issue of Vanity Fair. The Vanity Fair piece, adapted from […]
It seems to us that if any Hollywood actresses have a claim on eternal public life, they would have to include (in no special order) Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. Monroe remains the subject of periodic fascination, often expressed in photographs, books and, perhaps, with a PHD thesis or two. Taylor’s estate still brings […]
The list is long for those who haven’t won an Oscar. But through the years, who have been the biggest and brightest stars who were passed over? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, dwelling today on the victims of one of life’s great injustices — first-rank performers snubbed by the Academy of Motion Picture […]
If the words, Elsa Maxwell, mean anything to you, we are betting that you have hit the mid-century mark or older. Younger readers may scratch their collective head, but for those that DO remember, Maxwell surely was (using an over abused world) a “unique” phenomenon. There was and is just no one else like her. […]
Hey, we apologize. For the last two Mondays (Dec. 3 and Dec. 10) we posed several questions in challenging readership quizzes. And, naughty us, we have not — until today — published the answers. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, ready to relieve all those of you left hanging by […]
And that was eons before My Week With Marilyn. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to report back about those two Fox ‘contract players‘ we asked you to identify in our Nov. 24 blog. Almost everyone in the world would recognize the star in the first picture above, but […]
A couple of weeks ago we ran a picture and identification of one-time character actor Stanley Clements. And, of course, for the last few weeks we’ve been discussing Bob Hope and the fetching female costars he played opposite in his long career. Well, in classic Hollywood style their […]