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Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to entertain Frank regarding a story he has to tell about Liberace (the guy pictured above). Please bear with us, says Joe. While on a visit to Las Vegas after Liberace died of AIDS in 1987 — he kept both his disease […]
Hello, everybody. It’s time to dive into our trusty e-mail bag and see what our ever alert readers have to say about some recent — and not so recent — of our blogs. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys here today to reassure that we listen verry carefully to what you have […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today wrist-deep in our email bag, picking out the latest of our reader correspondence. Way back in July 14, 2011, we published a blog that asked this question: Susan Hayward — Forgotten Star? Judging from the emails we have received since then, the […]
Powell, Bennett, Hayward. They were three of the most beautiful women of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Each with a distinct look and talent. And when we wrote about them our readers took note. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back and, as always, happy to […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, kicking off the week with yet another Monday reader challenge. We suspect today’s quiz will be a tad more testing than last week’s, (Known To All — By EITHER Name, Nov. 26, asking the actual identities of a quartet of familiar stars). Regular […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back again with our second, and most interesting, of two Howard Hughes blogs. Yesterday we presented Hughes as the Godzilla of that once venerable film studio, RKO Pictures. Today we offer Howard as he perhaps would have preferred us to see him — as Hollywood’s […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, back again to field a most welcome e-mail from another reader who demurs from our dismissal of Susan Hayward. In our blog of July 14 — “Susan Hayward — Forgotten Star?” — we wrote that although Hayward was popular in the late Forties and […]
Hello Everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here to report that — yes, finally, after a couple of months — we heard from a Susan Hayward fan who disagrees with us when we say she is today a forgotten star. (Check out our blog to this effect which ran on July 14.) Philippe Elan writes, […]
EUREKA! We flipped through our files, and finally found a picture of the real Don ‘Red’ Barry (above left) posing with Donald Gordon. That dapper gent to the right is THE Donald of THE DONALD GORDON COLLECTION, the marvelously informal stash of Hollywood photos from the early Forties that ClassicMovieChat is delighted to share with you. […]