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Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to finish out our answers to our July 18 blog, ‘The French Connection’ Quiz. By this time, we hope we haven’t told you more than you ever wanted to know about this picture, directed by William Friedkin, but rather piqued your interest in […]
What does recent Academy Award Winner Jennifer Lawrence have in common with movie greats Jane Wyman and Katherine Hepburn? Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back again to discuss some interesting Oscar trivia. (You may be Oscared out by this point […]
This year for the first time in many years four actors from the same film have been nominated in all four of the acting categories for the Oscars. From the film Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper has been nominated for best actor, Jennifer Lawrence for best actress, Robert DeNiro for best supporting actor and Jacki […]
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 […]
“You’ll go to that ceremony tonight if we have to put you in a straightjacket.” Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to reveal that many (make that most!) of the performers who have won Academy Awards suffer through the experience — the buildup, the uncertainty, the self-doubts — in […]
The Oscar nominations have been announced, and there’s quite a hullabaloo about who’s been slighted. Well, guess that happens every year. Hello, everybody. Mrs. Norman Maine won her Oscar, but Mr. Joe Morella and Mr. Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, are here to discuss some of the biggest stars who never even got nominated. […]
He started his film career late in life. He only worked in movies for a decade but his impact was enormous. His most famous movie line: Well, if you lose a son it is possible to get another. There is only one Maltese Falcon. The actor who uttered them is Sydney Greenstreet, perhaps the greatest character […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, considering today the longstanding proposition that classic movies — indeed, any movie — is best seen in a movie theater. Do you agree? Do, for example, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre prove more compelling on the big screen in The Maltese Falcon than […]
We thought that headline would grab you. Hope it did. Certainly, we all have our choices about who were the biggest stars of the golden years of Hollywood from the Thirties to the early Fifties, when the old line studios commanded the movie universe. (The greatly transformed Hollywood studios still do today more or less, […]
They Got an Oscar for THAT? Not really. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, reflecting on the Academy’s quirk of casting, in what in effect are, sympathy votes. And, please, enjoy today’s great photos of two stars at their physical peaks. Ain’t they gorgeous? In the history of Academy Awards there are […]