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.
"Rear Window" starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. James Stewart stars as a wheelchair bound photographer who believes he’s witness to a murder out of his back window.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Costume Designer: Edith Head
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Year: 1954
"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
"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
Old Hollywood REALNESS is turning 3 Year Old! In order to mark the occasion we are joined by legendary costume and fashion designer Bob Mackie. Mr. Mackie shares with us, stories from his early career working with other costume legends like Jean Louis and Edith Head. Through his career he was nominated 3 times for an Oscar, won multiple Emmys and recently won the Tony for The Cher Show.
Read More"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
"All About Eve" starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe and Thelma Ritter. Bette Davis stars as an older established theater star who's biggest fan turned assistant has eyes on a career of her own.
Director: Joseph L. Menkiewicz
Costumes: Bette Davis' Gowns by Edith Head
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Year: 1950
"She Done Him Wrong" starring Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen More and Gilbert Roland. Mae West plays Lady Lou, a saloon singer, who is mixed up with various no good men. One good man who hangs around may want to do more than to save her soul.
Director: Lowell Sherman
Gowns: Edith Head
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Year: 1933
"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
"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
"This Gun For Hire" starring Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Laird Cregar and Robert Preston. Alan Ladd stars as Raven, a hit man for hire who gets double crossed by one of his clients. This get complicated when Veronica Lake get mixed up in his run from the law while working her own angle.
Director: Frank Tuttle
Costumes: Edith Head
Studio: Paramount
Released: 1942
"The Court Jester" starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone and Angela Lansbury. Danny Kaye stars in this medieval musical comedy about reclaiming a usurped throne in the name of a child king. Sword fights, hypnotism and technicolor costumes abound in this hilarious romp.
Director: Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
Costumes: Edith Head & Yvonne Wood
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Year: 1955
"White Christmas" starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. Crosby and Kaye, a song and dance duo, team up and fall for a pair of singing sisters to help the flailing business of the General that led them in WWII.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Costumes: Edith Head
Studio: Paramount
Year: 1954
