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.
"Blonde Crazy" starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis, Ray Milland and Guy Kibbee. Cagney stars as a good time grifting bellboy who teams up with the glamorous Blondell to take their show on the road.
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Costumes: Earl Luick
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1931
"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
"Arsenic and Old Lace" starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre. Cary Grant stars as a newlywed theater critic who discovers his devoted aunts that raised him are hiding a few bodies in the basement.
Director: Frank Capra
Costumes: Orry-Kelly
Studio: Warner Bros.
Released: 1944
"Virginia City" starring Erroll Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, and Humphrey Bogart. Erroll Flynn stars as an escaped Union Soldier working to thwart Randolph Scott's Confederate gold smuggling plan.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Costumes: Orry-Kelly
Studio: Warner Bros.
Released: 1940
"Captain Blood" starring Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone and Ross Alexander. Errol Flynn stars as Peter Blood, who during an attempted revolution in England in 1680, gets imprisoned and sent to the Caribbean to be sold as a slave. After an attack on the island, Blood leads a band of slaves to escape and becomes notorious pirates sacking English shipping vessels.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Costumes: Milo Anderson
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1935
"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
