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.
"I Married a Witch" starring Veronica Lake, Frederic March, Robery Benchley, Susan Hayward and Cecil Kellaway. Lake stars as a witch, who returns after 300 years to enact revenge on March, the descendant of the man who put her to death. Things get complicated when she accidentally drinks her own love potion.
Director: Rene Clair
Costumes: Edith Head
Studio: Paramount
Released: 1942
"Virginia City" starring Erroll Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, and Humphrey Bogart. Erroll Flynn stars as an escaped Union Soldier working to thwart Randolph Scott's Confederate gold smuggling plan.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Costumes: Orry-Kelly
Studio: Warner Bros.
Released: 1940
"The Women" starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard and Joan Fontaine. Film based on the hit Broadway play about New York Society Women and their battles over their various husbands.
Director: George Cukor
Costumes: Adrian
Studio: MGM
Year: 1939
"Hit The Deck" starring Jane Powell, Ann Miller, Debbie Reynolds, Tony Martin, Vic Damone and Russ Tamblyn. Three sailor friends have a musical adventure in San Fransisco. Finding love and hijinks comes easy for the trio.
Director: Roy Rowland
Costumes: Helen Rose
Studio: MGM
Year: 1955
"The Pirate" starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper and special dance sequence by The Nicholas Brothers and songs by Cole Porter. Judy Garland stars as Manuela who pines for a life of adventure with Macoco, Mack the Black, a notorious pirate. When a traveling theater troupe rolls into town her prayers may be answered.
Director: Vincente Minelli
Costumes: Tom Keogh
Studio: MGM
Year: 1948
"Captain Blood" starring Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone and Ross Alexander. Errol Flynn stars as Peter Blood, who during an attempted revolution in England in 1680, gets imprisoned and sent to the Caribbean to be sold as a slave. After an attack on the island, Blood leads a band of slaves to escape and becomes notorious pirates sacking English shipping vessels.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Costumes: Milo Anderson
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1935
"Follow the Fleet" starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Nelson and featuring bit parts played by Lucille Ball and Betty Grable. Fred Astaire stars as a sailor who returns to San Fran to look up his old dance partner Ginger Rogers. Lovers with mixed signals, putting on a show to save a boat and a monkey dressed up as a sailor make for a fun Irving Berlin musical romp.
Director: Mark Sandrich
Costumes: Bernard Newman (gowns)
Studio: RKO
Year: 1936
"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
