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.
"Gone With The Wind" starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Hattie McDaniel, Olivia de Havilland and Leslie Howard. Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable star in this Hollywood Epic as a tumultuous pair of lovers who must survive the horrors during and after the Civil War.
Director: Victor Fleming
Costume Designer: Walter Plunkett
Studio: MGM & Selznick Intl. Pictures
Year: 1939
"Leave Her To Heaven" starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price and Mary Phillips. Tierney stars in this technicolor noir about a young woman who’s love and obsession with her husband threatens to destroy both them and everyone around her.
Director: John M. Stahl
Costume Designer: Kay Nelson
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Year: 1945
"Phantom Lady" starring Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Thomas Gomez, Aurora Miranda and Franchot Tone. Ella Raines stars as the plucky assistant to Alan Curtis who is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife. She’s on the hunt to find a woman who can prove his innocence with the only lead being her unique hat.
Director: Robert Siodmak
Costume Designer: Vera West
Hat Designer: Keneth Hopkins
Studio: Universal Picture
Year: 1944
"Plan 9 From Outer Space" starring Gregory Walcott, Duke Moore, Tor Johnson, Dudley Manlove, John Breckinridge, Maila Nurmi (Vampira) and bela Lugosi. A race of aliens reanimate the dead in order to take over the world. Join us as we discuss this film with Comedian and Ed Wood Expert, Dana Gould.
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Wardrobe: Dick (Richard) Chaney
Studio: Reynolds Picture
Year: 1959
"Madam Satan" starring Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny and Lillian Roth and Roland Young. Kay Johnson stars as a society housewife whose husband is stepping out on her. She attends a masquerade ball on a blimp as ‘Madam Satan’ when disaster strikes.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Costumes: Adrian
Studio: MGM
Year: 1932
Join Kathleen and Philip as they discuss The Ruby Slippers from “The Wizard of "Oz” (1939). The slippers were stolen in 2005 and were recovered by the FBI just this past month, 13 years later. Discussed in the episode is the documentary, “The Slippers” (2016) and a TV show segment, “The Search for the Ruby Slippers.” Included in the documentary is the story of the discovery of the long forgotten slippers by Kent Warner, the birth of Hollywood costume collecting, and the 2005 Slipper Heist.
Read More"The Mummy" starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners and Edward Van Sloan. Boris Karloff stars as a mummy risen from the dead to enact a vengeful curse and find his long lost love.
Director: Karl Freund
Costumes: Vera West
Studio: Universal Pictures
Year: 1932
"The Great Race" starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk and Kennan Wynn. Curtis and Lemmon star as turn of the century rivals who compete in a race from NYC to Paris.
Director: Blake Edwards
Costumes: Don Feld & Edith Head (Natalie Wood's Costumes)
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1965
"Forbidden Planet" starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen and Robby the Robot. Nielsen stars as the captain of a rescue mission to a mysterious planet in this sci-fi film inspired by Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Costumes: Walter Plunkett & Helen Rose
Studio: MGM
Year: 1956
"Romeo and Juliet" starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone and Reginald Denny. Shearer and Howard play the titular characters from Shakespeare's immortal tale of love between two warring families.
Director: George Cukor
Costumes: Adrian and Oliver Messel
Studio: MGM
Year: 1936
"West Side Story" starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno and George Chakiris. Wood and Beymer play lovers from rival street gangs in this remake of Romeo and Juliette. Dance fighting, star crossed lovers and a couple murders make for a classic musical.
Director: Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise
Costumes: Irene Sharaff
Studio: United Artists
Year: 1961
"Taming of the Shrew" starring Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Fairbanks and Pickford star in an adaptation of the William Shakespeare play about a gold digging man who tries to marry a woman with anger management issues.
Director: Sam Taylor
Costumes: Mitchell Leisen
Studio: United Artists
Year: 1929
"Kiss Me Kate" starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ann Miller, Tommy Rall and Bob Fosse. Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson star as warring exes in a musical production of "Taming of the Shrew."
Director: George Sydney
Costumes: Walter Plunkett
Studio: MGM
Year: 1953
"The Seven Year Itch" starring Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell and Evelyn Keyes. Tom Ewell stars as a husband left behind in Mahattan for the summer where he meets his enchanting upstairs neighbor, Marilyn Monroe. What could go wrong?
Director: Billy Wilder
Costumes: Travilla
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Year: 1955
"Platinum Blonde" starring Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, and Loretta Young. Robert Williams plays a savvy newspaper reporter who falls for a rich socialite. Things get tense when it isn't clear who wears the pants.
Director: Frank Capra
Costumes: Edward Stevenson
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Year: 1931
"All About Eve" starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe and Thelma Ritter. Bette Davis stars as an older established theater star who's biggest fan turned assistant has eyes on a career of her own.
Director: Joseph L. Menkiewicz
Costumes: Bette Davis' Gowns by Edith Head
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Year: 1950
"The Wizard of Oz" starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton. Garland stars as a young farm girl who is whisked to a magical land via tornado. While trying to get home she meets several enchanted friends on her journey to meet the titular wizard.
Director: Victor Fleming
Costumes: Adrian
Studio: MGM
Year: 1939
"Tonight or Never" starring Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth, Ferdinand Gottschalk and Robert Greig. Swanson stars as an opera diva that needs to find love in order to sing her best.
Director: Mervyn Leroy
Costumes: Chanel of Paris
Studio: United artists
Year: 1931
"Stage Door" starring Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolph Menjou, Gail Patrick, Ann Miller and Lucille Ball. Hepburn and Rogers lead an ensemble cast of ladies aspiring to make it big on Broadway at any cost.
Director: Gregory La Cava
Costumes: Muriel King
Studio: RKO
Year: 1937
"Cabaret" starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Marisa Bereson and Fritz Wepper. Liza Minnelli stars as a cabaret singer, who shows a sheltered Michael York the sometimes fantastic and sometimes tragic life of Berlin, all the while the rise of The Third Reich looms in the distance.
Director: Bob Fosse
Costumes: Charlotte Flemming
Studio: ABC Pictures/Allied Artists
Year: 1972
