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Who knows how it will fare in thirty years? — Orson Welles, 1983, on Citizen Kane. Joe was depositing a $300 check at the bank the other day and the 20-something teller asked “anything else?” When he said no, she […]
Hello, everybody. Your classic movie guys noting that we have probably received more (and more impassioned) emails about the late Deanna Durbin than any other star we’ve written about. And we’ve written about her nearly a dozen different times, the latest blog (Farewell Deanna, May 7) occasioned by her death on April 30 at the age of […]
As we’ve repeatedly mentioned, reader feedback to our blogs, good, bad or indifferent, is something we very much enjoy — and consider. Hello, everybody. Your classic movie guys are pondering the reasons why Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane was snubbed as best picture of 1941 at the Academy Awards. (John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley won […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to speculate about the five-year-marriage of Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles, the second of her five trips to the altar, the second of his three. Was it the inevitable result of his uncontrollable lust for then American’s favorite pinup? Was it a […]
One of the great pleasures we’ve experienced of late is reading through the newly -published My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles (Henry Holt and Company, Metropolitan Books). Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to recommend this highly readable book put together from many luncheon chats […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to introduce a new periodic feature of Classicmoviechat.com — our picks of the best titles in various movie genres. A few words of caution. We certainly don’t consider ourselves critics, and our selections reflect highly personal biases, which we not only admit to but relish. And, […]
New Year’s Eve is fast approaching and your classic movie guys, Joe Morella and Frank Segers are here to share their favorite NYE films with you. Joe says there’s only ONE film to consider for the big night. It’s 1947’s Repeat Performance. It stars Joan Leslie (above) Louis Hayward and Virginia Field (below), and features […]
Hello everybody. This is Mister Joe Morella and Mister Frank Segers here again.. Once again we welcome back our regular and increasingly prolific guest contributor, Larry Michie. Larry, entranced by how some books are turned into some of the best classic movies, discusses a beauty today. So, here’s Larry….. Graham Greene (1904-1991) was a […]
Are all classic movies old movies? Must they be old to be classic? How old? Can a movie be a classic without being old? Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys here again. Today we are putting on our tattered philosophical hats, such as they are, and rooting around in some […]
MARLON BRANDO – FATSO Morella and Segers back again with more dish on Marlon Brando and his weight problems. By the 1960’s when Brando was in his 40’s he took to wearing a poncho in hot weather to conceal his by then flabby body. In Brando’s autobiography (“Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me,” written […]