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How much did you know about the seven “Road To..” films that were huge successes for Crosby, Hope and Lamour? And, did you know this about Dorothy? Although she was in C. B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show On Earth released in 1952, Lamour’s career as a leading actress essentially ended after the same year’s The Road […]
Although it may surprise our readers under the age of 40, there once was a time when the big Hollywood studios fell all over themselves to attract successful novelists and playwrights and turn them into commercial screenwriters. To be a literary lion wasn’t a bad thing as long as your work could be translated at the box office. […]
Marjorie Reynolds (upper left), Virginia Dale (middle right) and Lucille Bremer (lower left) are stars of the 1940s who are practically forgotten today except by die hard (and, sorry to say, old) movie aficionados. Yet these three, (whose “A” films could be counted on the fingers […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to announce that at last we may have solved the mystery. And, we freely admit that we cannot take the credit. As you’ll see, one of our alerts readers came to our rescue. From Gwendolyn Lewis, we received on Nov. 27 the following head-scratcher: In […]
Genevieve Tobin (pictured above right ) portrayed Mitzi in the 1932 Ernst Lubitsch comedy for Paramount, One Hour With You. In that pre code musical which starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette MacDonald, Tobin played “the other woman.” Hello Everybody. MR. Joe Morella and MR. Frank Segers, still here holding down the fort while MRS. Norman […]
He was probably the shortest leading man Hollywood ever produced. Through the years there have been many versions of just how tall he was (read on for our count). There have been many stories about leading ladies having to stand on a box to photograph love scenes with him. Whatever the truth is, Alan Ladd […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, admiring the photo above. Once again we went to the vaults, and plucked a never-been-seen snapshot from The Donald Gordon Collection. That’s a young and casually dapper Donald to the left, and our mystery man in the center. And, please, don’t overlook that period […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here. Today Joe told Frank about his encounter with the great star of the 1940’s Dorothy Lamour. As the author and coauthor of more than 20 books about such celebrated Hollywoodians as Lana Turner, Lucille Ball, Loretta Young and Mia Farrow, Joe is all too familiar with the […]