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Last week we ran a photo of Liberace, one of the most dazzling stars of Hollywood –although he made only one major film (see below) — posing with Susan Hayward, and our star of the week. Hello, everyone. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back again. Behind the Candelabra, the recent HBO […]
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 […]
Hello, everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, here to wind up our Sonja Henie series with a look at her World War II bond-selling activities, which in retrospect contain rich historical irony. Almost all of the top film stars of the 1940s did their bit helping the war effort. World War […]
Only 10 months after she turned professional, the world’s most famous non-Hollywood movie star was on the precipice of becoming, well, a Hollywood movie star. Sonja Henie’s amateur figure skating career — boasting of an unheard of three consecutive Olympic gold medals plus 10 consecutive world championships — had electrified the sporting world. By the […]
Yes, Sonja Henie was one of the most successful actresses in Thirtes and Forties Hollywood. But she was also a supremely gifted athlete, a pioneering figure skater whose competitive record — three consecutive Olympic gold medals […]
What name springs to mind when one thinks of Ice Skating? Sonja Henie, you say? You are right! She is to ice skating what Babe Ruth is the baseball. Synonymous. While many today don’t know what she looked like or what she accompished, they know her name. Sonja Henie (there she is, above) was not only […]