It was published in 1975, and for years thereafter author Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon set the standard for juicy, tell-all star guides. The book covered the scandal waterfront from the silent movie era through the 1960’s, and it still makes for entertaining reading. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to […]
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HOWARD HUGHES — The Godzilla of Big Stud
It’s become trendy in academic circles these days to view the big studio bosses — Adolph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer, the fractious Warner brothers, Darryl F. Zanuck, Harry Cohn — as tough-as-nails egomaniacs and ruthlessly strong-willed dictators, necessary if you wanted to get the job […]
JANE RUSSELL–ABORTION AND RELIGION
Didn’t Russell confess to having had an abortion? Yes. It happened when Jane was 21. Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here, your classic movies guys. Jane Russell, one of Hollywood’s biggest female stars of the late Forties and Fifties, made clear in her 1985 autobiography, “My Path & My Detours,” that she was […]
Did Jane Russell Sleep With Howard Hughe...
Today’s question, posed in the headline above today’s picture, is not meant to be disrespectful or rude. Not at all. It’s just that this blunt question arises whenever you assess the career of Jane Russell, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the Forties and Fifties. Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie […]