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.
“Victor / Victoria" starring Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner and Leslie Ann. Warren. Julie Andrews stars as a down on her luck singer who poses as a drag queen in order to find fame and fortune.
Director: Blake Edwards
Costume Designer: Patricia Norris
Studio: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Year: 1982
“The Adventures of Robin Hood" starring Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland, Basil Rathbone and Claud Rains. Errol Flynn stars as the legendary Robin Hood who fights against the tyranny of an evil prince.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Costume Designer: Milo Anderson
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1938
"Libeled Lady" starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myna Loy and Spencer Tracy. When Loy slaps Tracy’s newspaper with a libel suit he must get creative in order to weasel out of the charges.
Director: Jack Conway
Costume Designer: Dolly Tree
Studio: MGM
Year: 19366
"Roberta" starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. Randolph Scott stars as an American football player who inherits a French Fashion house. Luckily he has Fred and Ginger to dance their way out of this pickle.
Director: William A. Seiter
Costume Designer: Bernard Newman (Gowns)
Studio: RKO
Year: 1935
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"She Done Him Wrong" starring Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen More and Gilbert Roland. Mae West plays Lady Lou, a saloon singer, who is mixed up with various no good men. One good man who hangs around may want to do more than to save her soul.
Director: Lowell Sherman
Gowns: Edith Head
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Year: 1933
"Blonde Crazy" starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis, Ray Milland and Guy Kibbee. Cagney stars as a good time grifting bellboy who teams up with the glamorous Blondell to take their show on the road.
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Costumes: Earl Luick
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1931
"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
