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There are two films currently making the rounds about Alfred Hitchcock. One is HBO’s The Girl, about the famed director’s obsession with actress Tippi Hedren, star of 1963’s The Birds and Marnie, made the following year (and costarring Sean Connery). The other is Hitchcock, a feature starring Anthony Hopkins about the making of 1960’s Psycho. Do either […]
Hello, everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys here to announce that the answer, naturally, is both. After splitting with Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin continued a successful career in films with notable performances in Some Came Running with Frank Sinatra, Rio Bravo and The Sons of Katie Elder with John Wayne. Martin appeared in […]
Today movies just “Open”— and then everybody checks the weekend grosses the following Monday. But in Hollywood’s heydey movies “Premiered.” When the studios ran the industry they realized they could get maximum publicity for a film if they opened it with great fanfare and had major stars appear in person at the theater. Joe Morella and Frank […]