The Podcast That Celebrates the Glitz and Glamour of Tinsel Town's Golden Era
Old Hollywood REALNESS is the podcast dedicated to celebrating all the glitz and glamour of the silver screen. Join Kathleen Noll and Philip Estrada as they gab, gush and recap all the classics. Journey through time, from the mad cap black & white flicks to the technicolor dreams that Hollywood produced in the heydays of studio system.
"Ship Ahoy" starring Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr, Virginia O'Brien. Featuring musical numbers by Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra. Powell stars as a dancing sensation that gets mixed up in a smuggling plot who falls in love with Skelton antics along the way.
Director: Edward Buzzell
Costumes: Kalloch (Robert Kalloch)
Studio: MGM
Year: 1942
"Anchors Aweigh" starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Dean Stockwell. On a four day shore leave two sailors look for love, babysit a wannabe junior sailor and teach Jerry the Mouse to tap dance.
Director: George Sidney
Costumes: Irene
Studio: MGM
Year: 1945
"On The Town" starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen, Ann Miller and Betty Garrett. Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin star as three sailors who get twenty-four hours of shore leave and their misadventures lead to musical numbers, a high speed police chase and love. Turns out New York, New York IS a wonderful town.
Director: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
Costumes: Helen Rose
Studio: MGM
Year: 1949
"This Gun For Hire" starring Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Laird Cregar and Robert Preston. Alan Ladd stars as Raven, a hit man for hire who gets double crossed by one of his clients. This get complicated when Veronica Lake get mixed up in his run from the law while working her own angle.
Director: Frank Tuttle
Costumes: Edith Head
Studio: Paramount
Released: 1942
"The Court Jester" starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone and Angela Lansbury. Danny Kaye stars in this medieval musical comedy about reclaiming a usurped throne in the name of a child king. Sword fights, hypnotism and technicolor costumes abound in this hilarious romp.
Director: Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
Costumes: Edith Head & Yvonne Wood
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Year: 1955
"His Girl Friday" starring Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy and John Qualen. Rosalind Russell stars in this screwball comedy, as Hildy Johnson, ace reporter for The Morning Post. Cary Grant plays the paper's editor and her ex-husband, who cooks up a a scheme to lure her back to her job and keep her from marrying another man.
Director: Howard Hawks
Costumes: Kalloch (Robert Kalloch)
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Released: 1940
"Gypsy" starring Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden and Ann Jillian. Natalie Wood stars as the legendary star of burlesque, Gypsy Rose Lee and Rosalind Russell portrays her overbearing stage mother, Rose Hovic. This musical, based on Gypsy's memoir, tracks the Hovic family, from their early days in vaudeville through to Gypsy's rise to fame as the world's most famous burlesque dancer.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Costumes: Orry-Kelly
Studio: Warner Bros.
Released: 1962
"Marie Antoinette" starring Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, Robert Morley, and John Barrymore. Norma Shearer plays the titular character in this biopic based on the 1932 biography of the ill fated queen. Shearer, as Antoinette, navigates double dealings in the royal court, an extra marital love affair and the impending French Revolution. As we all know, things don't end well for her.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Costumes: Adrian (Gowns) and Gile Steele (Menswear)
Studio: MGM
Released: 1938
"Gigi" starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Isabel Jeans and Eva Gabor. Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young Parisian woman who is not impressed with the French traditions of love. When she is being groomed to be the mistress of the most elidgible bachelor in France love becomes an unexpected obstacle.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Music and Lyrics by: Lerner and Loewe
Costumes: Cecil Beaton
Studio: MGM
Released: 1958
"The Prodigal" starring Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern and James Mitchell. Lana Turner stars in this 'biblical epic' inspired by the parable of the Prodigal Son. Turner as the high priestess of a pagan religion is pursued by Purdom who is swindled out of his family fortune while trying to buy her love.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Costumes: Herschel McCoy
Studio: MGM
Released: 1955
"Laura" starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. Gene Tierney plays Laura Hunt, a ravishing beauty whose mentor molded her into a scion of the advertising world. Everyone seems to fall in love with Laura, including the detective investigating her murder.
Director: Otto Preminger
Costumes: Bonnie Cashin
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Released: 1944
"Footlight Parade" starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell. Cageny is Chester Kent, the movie house prologue impresario challenged to create three masterpieces to win a major account. The only thing standing in his way is romance, embezzlement, and espionage. This is an amazing precode musical complete with numbers staged by the prolific Busby Berkeley.
Director: Lloyd Bacon & Busby Berkeley
Costumes: Milo Anderson
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1933
"Calamity Jane" starring Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie and Philip Carey. Day plays the bigger than life character, Calamity Jane, known for being both Rootin and Tootin. Calamity, in order to save the town's theater owner, boasts about bringing the biggest star to the Deadwood, Dakota Territory stage. Mistaken identity leads to friendship, which gives way to rivalry, ultimately leading to love. Winner of the Oscar for best original song for "Secret Love." A 'western' with unexpected glamour!
Director: David Butler
Costumes: Howard Shoup
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1953
"There's No Business Like Show Business" starring Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Johnnie Ray and Marilyn Monroe. Merman and Dailey are the parents of a vaudeville team, The Five Donahues, in this Irving Berlin musical. As time passes the family grows in different directions intersecting with Monroe's rising career.
Director: Walter Lang
Costumes: Travilla & Miles White
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Year: 1954
"Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" starring Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Russ Tamblyn and Julie Newmar. Keel and his six brothers are looking for love in 1850s Oregon. Things get awkward when the guys take marriage into their own hands.
Director: Stanley Donen
Costumes: Walter Plunkett
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released: 1954
"White Christmas" starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. Crosby and Kaye, a song and dance duo, team up and fall for a pair of singing sisters to help the flailing business of the General that led them in WWII.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Costumes: Edith Head
Studio: Paramount
Year: 1954
"Neptune's Daughter" starring Esther Williams, Ricardo Moltalban, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton. Williams plays a swimsuit designer who's working hard to keep her lovesick sister out of trouble. A case of mistaken makes her work difficult and hilarious.
Director: Edward Buzzell
Costumes: Irene
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released:1949
Introducing Old Hollywood REALNESS, the podcast dedicated to celebrating all the glitz and glamour of the silver screen. Join Kathleen Noll and Philip Estrada as they gab, gush and recap all the classics.
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