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.
"Bell, Book and Candle" starring Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart, Elsa Lanchester, Jack Lemmon and Hermione Gingold. Kim Novak stars as a reluctant witch looking for love in NYC.
Director: Richard Quine
Costume Designer: Jean Louis
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Year: 1958
Larry McQueen is a Hollywood Costume Collector who has been collecting and preserving costumes since the early 1980s. We were joined by him over the summer to discuss his collection and history.
Read More"Charade" starring Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Mattheau and James Coburn. Hepburn plays Regina Lampert who is being pursued by three dangerous thieves. Turns out her husband screwed them over which got him murdered.
Director: Stanley Donen
Costume Designer: Hubert de Givenchy
Studio: Universal Picture
Year: 1963
"Now, Voyager" starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Ilka Chase and Mary Wickes. Davis stars as a frumpy young woman under the thumb of a domineering mother. With the help of therapy she blossoms into an elegant and independent woman.
Director: Irving Rapper
Costume Designer: Orry-Kelly
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1942
"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
"Thoroughly Modern Millie" starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, James Fox and John Gavin. Julie Andrews stars as Millie, a modern New York City girl in the 1920s looking for love but getting mixed up in hijinks along the way.
Director: George Roy Hill
Costume Designer: Jean Louis
Studio: Universal Pictures
Year: 1967
"Thoroughly Modern Millie" starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, James Fox and John Gavin. Julie Andrews stars as Millie, a modern New York City girl in the 1920s looking for love but getting mixed up in hijinks along the way.
Director: George Roy Hill
Costume Designer: Jean Louis
Studio: Universal Pictures
Year: 1967
"Till The Clouds Roll By" starring Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Lucille Bremer and Judy Garland. Walker stars in this biopic of prolific songwriter Jerome Kern. This MGM spectacular has musical numbers performed by a cavalcade of stars
Director: Richard Whorf
Costume Designer: Helen Rose
Studio: MGM
Year: 1946
"Three Wise Girls" starring Jean Harlow, Mae Clark, Walter Bryon, Marie Prevost and Andy Devine. Harlow, Clark and Prevost star as three working girls in New York City. Looking for love but more importantly, looking for financial security!
Director: William Beaudine
Costume Designer: Uncredited
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Year: 1932
"Born Yesterday" starring Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford and William Holden. Holliday plays a tycoon’s girl who is put under Holden’s tutelage in order to help her learn proper etiquette. She learns more than expected.
Director: George Cukor
Costume Designer: Jean Louis (Gowns)
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Year: 1950
"Moulin Rouge" starring Jose Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Suzanne Flon. A biopic about the famous painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his time spent in the infamous dance hall Le Moulin Rouge.
Director: John Huston
Costume Designer: Maurice Vertes (Vertes) and Schiaparelli (Costumes for Miss Gabor)
Studio: United Artists
Year: 1952
"That Touch of Mink" starring Doris Day, Cary Grant, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows and John Astin. Doris Day stars as a young working woman who meets and falls for millionaire playboy Cary Grant. He’s into her too but he’s not the marrying type. What’s a girl to do?
Director: Delbert Mann
Costume Designer: Rosemary Odell (Gowns)
Studio: Universal Studios
Year: 1962
"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
"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
"Mahogany" starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, and Anthony Perkins. Miss Ross stars as an aspiring fashion designer who becomes a world famous model in Italy.
Director: Barry Gordy
Costume Designer: Diana Ross
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Year: 1975
"Holiday Affair" starring Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey and Gordon Gebert. Mitchum and Leigh fall in love during the holidays over a toy train set.
Director: Don Hartment
Costume Designer: Howard Greer
Studio: RKO Pictures
Year: 1949
