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.
"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
"Cinderfella" starring Jerry Lewis, Judith Anderson, Ed Wynn, and Anna Maria Alberghetti. Jerry Lewis stars in the reverse role version of the classic fairy tale.
Director: Frank Tashlin
Costume Designer: Edith Head
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Year: 1960
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
It's our One Year Anniversary and we are joined by our Special Guest: Pete Menefee. Pete Menefee has had a long career as a costume designer of Movies, TV Specials, and Cabaret Shows. He started his career as a dancer in theater and movies and even danced as one of the Chimney Sweeps in "Mary Poppins." We were beyond excited to have him share his experience working on this classic film with us.
"Mary Poppins" starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns. Andrews plays the titular character, a fantastical nanny who joins the Banks family to help bring them back together.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Costumes: Tony Walton
Studio: Walt Disney Productions
Year: 1964
