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
"Brigadoon" starring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse. Kelly stars in this mystical musical about a village that appears for only one day every 100 years.
Director: Vincente Minelli
Costume Designer: Irene Sharaff
Studio: MGM
Year: 1954
"Bells are Ringing" starring Judy Holliday, Dean Martin and Jean Stapleton. Holliday stars as a answering service operator who can’t help getting involved in the lives of the customers. She falls hard for a play write who she helps him succeed.
Director: Vincente Minelli
Costume Designer: Walter Plunkett
Studio: MGM
Year: 1960
"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
"Million Dollar Mermaid" starring Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon and David Brian. Williams stars in the biopic of Annette Kellerman, famed Australian swimming star during the early part of the 20th Century.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Costume Designer: Walter Plunkett and Helen Rose for the musical numbers
Studio: MGM
Year: 1952
"Million Dollar Mermaid" starring Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon and David Brian. Williams stars in the biopic of Annette Kellerman, famed Australian swimming star during the early part of the 20th Century.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Costume Designer: Walter Plunkett and Helen Rose for the musical numbers
Studio: MGM
Year: 1952
"Pagan Love Song" starring Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Rita Moreno and Charles Mauu. Williams stars as a half Tahitian young woman who falls for a transplant from Ohio who inherits a coconut farm.
Director: Robert Alton
Costume Designer: Helen Rose
Studio: MGM
Year: 1950
"Fiesta" starring Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Chariesse, Mary Astor and John Carroll. Esther Williams plays twins with Ricardo Montalban who wants to be a composer but his father wants him to be a matador.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Costume Designer: Irene (Gowns)
Studio: MGM
Year: 1947
"Bathing Beauty" starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Basil Rathbone, Jean Porter, Xavier Cugat and Ethel Smith. Williams stars as a college swim instructor who’s husband is trying to win back her love after a plan to break them up.
Director: George Sidney
Costume Designer: Irene (Gowns) and Irene Sharaff (Water Ballet Costumes)
Studio: MGM
Year: 1944
"A Date With Judy" starring Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen Miranda, and Wallace Beery. Powell stars as a high schooler who is dealing with the challenges of being a teenager in 1948.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Costume Designer: Helen Rose (Women’s)
Studio: MGM
Year: 1948
"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
"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
"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 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
"Glass Bottom Boat" starring Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Paul Lynde and Dom De Luise. Doris Day stars as the ghost writer to Rod Taylor, a dashing aerospace scientist who is in love with her. Things get complicated and hilarious when she is confused for a Russian Spy.
Director: Frank Tashlin
Gowns: Ray Aghayan
Studio: MGM
Year: 1966
"Pride and Prejudice" starring Greer Garson, Lawrence Olivier, Ann Rutherford, Mary Boland and Edmund Gwenn. The Bennet family consisting of five unmarried daughters see an answer to their financial prayers when two wealthy bachelors come to town. Heads butt and passions flare in this adaptation of the beloved Jane Austen novel.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Gowns: Adrian
Mens Costumes: Gile Steele
Studio: MGM
Year: 1940
"Meet Me In St. Louis" starring Judy Garland, Maraget O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake and Marjorie Main. Judy Garland stars as Esther Smith of the Smith Family. This film centers on a St. Louis family in the months leading up to the 1904 World's Fair.
Director: Vincente Minelli
Costumes: Irene Sharaff
Studio: MGM
Year: 1944
"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
