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Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, whiling away these sweaty summer days pondering one of life’s eternal conundrums — how Tab Hunter became Tab Hunter. What brought this up was our recent consideration of Guy Madison (July 10 blog, Guy Madison — Choice Beefcake?) who came into this world with […]
By the 1940s cheesecake photos of Hollywood stars were commonplace, so when female fans reacted to a new comer during the waning days of WW II a new genre was born — Beefcake. Guy Madison’s good looks, sculpted body and innocent charm propelled him into movie stardom. In the picture above, he resembles a more […]
She too, was the girl next door, albiet sometimes a hillbilly and sometimes a surfer. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie mavens, here again. Our thoughts of Annette Funicello last week rekindled thoughts of another star of the 50s and 60s who epitomized the era, Sandra Dee. Dee played Tammy (originated […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to say that it had to happen. And it has. A while ago we ran blogs raising the point that James Dean’s acting reputation is overblown. See James Dean — Really A Good Actor?, Sept. 22, 2011; and the following Oct. 12’s […]
Few Hollywood stars of any era have posthumously endured as long and as persistently as James Dean. Here we are more than a half century after the actor’s death (at the age of just 24), and his chiseled but oh, so vulnerable good looks still crop up regularly in photos, ads and images. People are […]
The importance of Being Ernest. Hello everybody. This is Mister Joe Morella and Mister Frank Segers here again at the Classic Movie Blog. without MRS Norman Maine. Today we welcome our regular guest contributor, Larry Michie, literary man of the world and former television editor of Variety. Larry muses most on a most puzzling classic […]