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.
"Brigadoon" starring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse. Kelly stars in this mystical musical about a village that appears for only one day every 100 years.
Director: Vincente Minelli
Costume Designer: Irene Sharaff
Studio: MGM
Year: 1954
"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
"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
"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
"Kiss Me Kate" starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ann Miller, Tommy Rall and Bob Fosse. Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson star as warring exes in a musical production of "Taming of the Shrew."
Director: George Sydney
Costumes: Walter Plunkett
Studio: MGM
Year: 1953
"Cabaret" starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Marisa Bereson and Fritz Wepper. Liza Minnelli stars as a cabaret singer, who shows a sheltered Michael York the sometimes fantastic and sometimes tragic life of Berlin, all the while the rise of The Third Reich looms in the distance.
Director: Bob Fosse
Costumes: Charlotte Flemming
Studio: ABC Pictures/Allied Artists
Year: 1972
"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
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
"Follow the Fleet" starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Nelson and featuring bit parts played by Lucille Ball and Betty Grable. Fred Astaire stars as a sailor who returns to San Fran to look up his old dance partner Ginger Rogers. Lovers with mixed signals, putting on a show to save a boat and a monkey dressed up as a sailor make for a fun Irving Berlin musical romp.
Director: Mark Sandrich
Costumes: Bernard Newman (gowns)
Studio: RKO
Year: 1936
"Ship Ahoy" starring Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr, Virginia O'Brien. Featuring musical numbers by Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra. Powell stars as a dancing sensation that gets mixed up in a smuggling plot who falls in love with Skelton antics along the way.
Director: Edward Buzzell
Costumes: Kalloch (Robert Kalloch)
Studio: MGM
Year: 1942
"Anchors Aweigh" starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Dean Stockwell. On a four day shore leave two sailors look for love, babysit a wannabe junior sailor and teach Jerry the Mouse to tap dance.
Director: George Sidney
Costumes: Irene
Studio: MGM
Year: 1945
"On The Town" starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen, Ann Miller and Betty Garrett. Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin star as three sailors who get twenty-four hours of shore leave and their misadventures lead to musical numbers, a high speed police chase and love. Turns out New York, New York IS a wonderful town.
Director: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
Costumes: Helen Rose
Studio: MGM
Year: 1949
"Gypsy" starring Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden and Ann Jillian. Natalie Wood stars as the legendary star of burlesque, Gypsy Rose Lee and Rosalind Russell portrays her overbearing stage mother, Rose Hovic. This musical, based on Gypsy's memoir, tracks the Hovic family, from their early days in vaudeville through to Gypsy's rise to fame as the world's most famous burlesque dancer.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Costumes: Orry-Kelly
Studio: Warner Bros.
Released: 1962
"Gigi" starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Isabel Jeans and Eva Gabor. Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young Parisian woman who is not impressed with the French traditions of love. When she is being groomed to be the mistress of the most elidgible bachelor in France love becomes an unexpected obstacle.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Music and Lyrics by: Lerner and Loewe
Costumes: Cecil Beaton
Studio: MGM
Released: 1958
"Footlight Parade" starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell. Cageny is Chester Kent, the movie house prologue impresario challenged to create three masterpieces to win a major account. The only thing standing in his way is romance, embezzlement, and espionage. This is an amazing precode musical complete with numbers staged by the prolific Busby Berkeley.
Director: Lloyd Bacon & Busby Berkeley
Costumes: Milo Anderson
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1933
"Calamity Jane" starring Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie and Philip Carey. Day plays the bigger than life character, Calamity Jane, known for being both Rootin and Tootin. Calamity, in order to save the town's theater owner, boasts about bringing the biggest star to the Deadwood, Dakota Territory stage. Mistaken identity leads to friendship, which gives way to rivalry, ultimately leading to love. Winner of the Oscar for best original song for "Secret Love." A 'western' with unexpected glamour!
Director: David Butler
Costumes: Howard Shoup
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1953
"There's No Business Like Show Business" starring Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Johnnie Ray and Marilyn Monroe. Merman and Dailey are the parents of a vaudeville team, The Five Donahues, in this Irving Berlin musical. As time passes the family grows in different directions intersecting with Monroe's rising career.
Director: Walter Lang
Costumes: Travilla & Miles White
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Year: 1954
"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
