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.
"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
"His Girl Friday" starring Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy and John Qualen. Rosalind Russell stars in this screwball comedy, as Hildy Johnson, ace reporter for The Morning Post. Cary Grant plays the paper's editor and her ex-husband, who cooks up a a scheme to lure her back to her job and keep her from marrying another man.
Director: Howard Hawks
Costumes: Kalloch (Robert Kalloch)
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Released: 1940
"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
