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.
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"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
Join Kathleen and Philip as they discuss The Ruby Slippers from “The Wizard of "Oz” (1939). The slippers were stolen in 2005 and were recovered by the FBI just this past month, 13 years later. Discussed in the episode is the documentary, “The Slippers” (2016) and a TV show segment, “The Search for the Ruby Slippers.” Included in the documentary is the story of the discovery of the long forgotten slippers by Kent Warner, the birth of Hollywood costume collecting, and the 2005 Slipper Heist.
Read More"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
"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
"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
"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
"Marie Antoinette" starring Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, Robert Morley, and John Barrymore. Norma Shearer plays the titular character in this biopic based on the 1932 biography of the ill fated queen. Shearer, as Antoinette, navigates double dealings in the royal court, an extra marital love affair and the impending French Revolution. As we all know, things don't end well for her.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Costumes: Adrian (Gowns) and Gile Steele (Menswear)
Studio: MGM
Released: 1938
