Episode 85 - Cat People with Special Guest: Adam Roche

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“Cat People" starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph and Tom Conway. Simon stars as a young woman who believes she will transform into a deadly panther if she becomes intimate.
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Costume Designer: Renié
Studio: RKO
Year: 1942

We are joined by Adam Roche, podcaster extraordinaire, famous for, “Secret History of Hollywood: Shadows.” You can follow all his works and support his podcast at his website Attaboy Clarence.

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Episode 77 - Lady of Burlesque

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Episode 77 - Lady of Burlesque

"Lady of Burlesque" starring Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O’Shea, Iris Adrian and Marion Martin. Stanwyck stars as the star of a burlesque show. Things get complicated when girls start showing up murdered with their own g-string.
Director: William Wellman
Costume Designer: Edith Head (Barbara Stanwyck’s Gowns) Natalie Visart (Costumes)
Studio: United Artists Pictures
Year: 1943

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Episode 69 - Now, Voyager - with Special Guest: Eduardo Castro

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Episode 69 - Now, Voyager - with Special Guest: Eduardo Castro

"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

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Episode 68 - Easy to Love - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #5

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Episode 68 - Easy to Love - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #5

"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

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Episode 67 - Million Dollar Mermaid - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #4

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Episode 67 - Million Dollar Mermaid - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #4

"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

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Episode 66 - Pagan Love Song - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #3

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Episode 66 - Pagan Love Song - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #3

"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

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Episode 65 - Fiesta - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #2

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Episode 65 - Fiesta - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #2

"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

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Episode 64 - Bathing Beauty - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #1

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Episode 64 - Bathing Beauty - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #1

"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

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Episode 55 - A Date With Judy

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Episode 55 - A Date With Judy

"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

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Episode 51 - Leave Her To Heaven - Noir-vember #2

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Episode 51 - Leave Her To Heaven - Noir-vember #2

"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

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Episode 50 - Phantom Lady - Noir-vember #1 with Special Guest: Renee Patrick

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Episode 50 - Phantom Lady - Noir-vember #1 with Special Guest: Renee Patrick

"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

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Episode 31 - Pride and Prejudice

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Episode 31 - Pride and Prejudice

"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

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Episode 28 - Meet Me In St. Louis

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Episode 28 - Meet Me In St. Louis

"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

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Episode 27 - Christmas in Connecticut

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Episode 27 - Christmas in Connecticut

"Christmas in Connecticut" starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet and S.K. Sakall. Stanwyck stars as Elizabeth Lane, a city gal magazine columnist, who writes articles as the ultimate homemaker and mother. Things get complicated when the magazine owner strong arms her into hosting Christmas for a naval war hero at her 'farm.'
Director: Peter Godfrey
Costumes: Milo Anderson - Costumes & Edith Head - Stanwyck's Gowns
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1945

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Episode 24 - Arsenic and Old Lace

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Episode 24 - Arsenic and Old Lace

"Arsenic and Old Lace" starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre. Cary Grant stars as a newlywed theater critic who discovers his devoted aunts that raised him are hiding a few bodies in the basement.
Director: Frank Capra
Costumes: Orry-Kelly
Studio: Warner Bros.
Released: 1944

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Episode 23 - I Married a Witch

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Episode 23 - I Married a Witch

"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

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Episode 22 - Virginia City - The Stinker Series Vol. II

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Episode 22 - Virginia City - The Stinker Series Vol. II

"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

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