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As part of our star-of-the-week series, we recently profiled Adolphe Menjou, a fine actor whose career spanned the silents and the talkies, 149 film and tv titles in all beginning way back in 1914. (Star of the Week — Adolphe Who?, Aug. 26.) Somewhat to our surprise, the response (for us) was voluminous. The comments came pouring […]
When George Sanders killed himself — by downing a fatal mixture of Nembutal and vodka in a seaside resort hotel suite some 10 miles south of Barcelona, Spain — the world concluded that the 65-year-old actor known for the silky cynicism of the characters he played onscreen for nearly four decades simply tired of life, and decided to pack it in. […]
Hello Everybody. It’s us again, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, with another visit from Larry Michie, our good friend and Books-2-Movies maven. Larry has more thoughts on the novels to films of Graham Greene. (Can you identify the pair pictured above, and the Green-inspired movie in which they appeared? No? Read […]