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Last week we said that Deborah Kerr and Irene Dunne were tied at five nominations and no wins in the Best Actress Category of The Academy Awards. We quickly learned we were wrong. A new correspondent to our blog who calls himself Melodramaboy wrote: Deborah Kerr was in fact nominated six times for Best Actress Oscar. […]
They portrayed mother and daughter in two of the most popular films of the early Fifties, and they shared a birthday. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back with more interesting info about one of the most interesting, yet overlooked stars of the Golden Age — Joan Bennett. Bennett’s last […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, wondering today about a certain tradition of actor loyalty, especially big stars using their clout to protect younger actors. Does it still exist in Hollywood’s cutthroat culture of today? We were able to come up with two indisputable instances of exemplary behavior in this […]
QUESTION: Did you happen to see the article in The New York Times style section about wedding gowns? It was about the new film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn –Part I (No. 1 in world box office, by the way), and about how what everyone is REALLY waiting to see is the wedding gown that actress […]
Notice what’s special about the photo above? Sure, it’s a still of Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner — all in the cast of MGM’s version of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” directed in 1941 by Victor Fleming (the director of credit for “Gone With The Wind.”) But it’s a posed shot with a […]