Old Hollywood Realness!
97 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 108 ratingsOld 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. Join us as we journey through Hollywood History, from the mad cap black & white flicks to the technicolor dreams that Hollywood produced in the heydays of studio system.
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Episodes
Episode 91 - Paris Is Burning - OHR What a Drag Summer #5
September 15, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 91.6 MB“Paris is Burning" starring Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Venus Xtravaganza, Octavia St. Laurent, Willi Ninja, Angie Xtravaganza and Freddie Pendavis. This documentary takes into in the fascinating world of the Vogue Drag Balls of NYC in the late 1980s. Director: Jennie Livingston Costume Designer: The Queens themselves Studio: Academy Entertainment Off White Productions Year: 1990
Episode 90 - First A Girl - OHR What a Drag Summer #4
July 20, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 91.9 MB“First A Girl" starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee and Griffith Jones. Jessie Matthews plays a young girl with stars in her eye when she meets a down on his luck actor. Taking his place in a female impersonation act leads to whirlwind fame, and romance. Director: Victor Saville Costume Designer: Marianne and J. Strassner Studio: Gaumont British Studios Year: 1935
Episode 89 - Hairspray - OHR What a Drag Summer #3
July 07, 2020 04:06 - 1 hour - 87.6 MB“Hairspray" starring Ricki Lake, Divine, Sonny Bono and Blondie. Lake stars as a dance crazed youngster in 1960s baltimore. Director: John Waters Costume Designer: Van Smith Studio: New Line Cinema Year: 1988
Episode 88 - Some Like It Hot - OHR What a Drag Summer #2
June 22, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 109 MB“Some Like It Hot" starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Joe E. Brown. Curtis and Lemmon star as musicians on the run from the mafia. The two pose as women in order to hide out in an all girls band. Director: Billy Wilder Costume Designer: Orry-Kelly Studio: United Artists Year: 1959
Episode 87 - Victor / Victoria - OHR What a Drag Summer #1
June 08, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 125 MB“Victor / Victoria" starring Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner and Leslie Ann. Warren. Julie Andrews stars as a down on her luck singer who poses as a drag queen in order to find fame and fortune. Director: Blake Edwards Costume Designer: Patricia Norris Studio: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Year: 1982
Episode 86 - Pillow Talk
May 19, 2020 17:03 - 1 hour - 102 MB“Pillow Talk" starring Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall and Thelma Ritter. Day stars as a successful interior designer who reluctantly shares a party line with a song writing Lothario. Things get romantic when he fixes his sights on her. Director: Michael Gordon Costume Designer: Jean Louis (Doris Day’s Gowns) Studio: Universal pIctures Year: 1959
Episode 85 - Cat People with Special Guest: Adam Roche
May 04, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 92.6 MB“Cat People" starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph and Tom Conway. Simon stars as a young woman who believes she will transform into a deadly panther if she becomes intimate. Director: Jacques Tourneur Costume Designer: Renié Studio: RKO Year: 1942 We are joined by Adam Roche, podcaster extraordinaire, famous for, “Secret History of Hollywood: Shadows.” You can follow all his works and support his podcast at his website Attaboy Clarence.
Episode 84 - The Adventures of Robin Hood
April 20, 2020 16:55 - 1 hour - 92.4 MB“The Adventures of Robin Hood" starring Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland, Basil Rathbone and Claud Rains. Errol Flynn stars as the legendary Robin Hood who fights against the tyranny of an evil prince. Director: Michael Curtiz Costume Designer: Milo Anderson Studio: Warner Bros. Year: 1938
Episode 83 - Rear Window with Special Guest: Vince and Rosemarie Keenan
April 06, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 107 MB"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
Episode 83 - Rear Window
April 06, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 107 MB"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
Episode 82 - Brigadoon
March 23, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 85.2 MB"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
Episode 81 - Bells Are Ringing
March 09, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 90.2 MB"Bells are Ringing" starring Judy Holliday, Dean Martin and Jean Stapleton. Holliday stars as a answering service operator who can’t help getting involved in the lives of the customers. She falls hard for a play write who she helps him succeed. Director: Vincente Minelli Costume Designer: Walter Plunkett Studio: MGM Year: 1960
Episode 80 - Cinderfella
February 24, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 87.1 MB"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
Episode 79 - Libeled Lady
February 10, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MB"Libeled Lady" starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy. When Loy slaps Tracy’s newspaper with a libel suit he must get creative in order to weasel out of the charges. Director: Jack Conway Costume Designer: Dolly Tree Studio: MGM Year: 1936
Episode 78 - Dishonored Lady
January 27, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 78.1 MB"Dishonored Lady" starring Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O’Keefe, John Loder and Margaret Hamilton. Lamarr stars as a magazine art director who starts a new life only to be accused of murdering a lover from her past. Director: Robert Stevenson Costume Designer: Elois Jenssen Studio: United Artists Pictures Year: 1947
Miniepisode - Whoopsie Doodles
January 23, 2020 14:00 - 9 minutes - 13.6 MBSorry about this one… We meant to record a podcast but we were only able to have a melt down on mic. Hope you enjoy! We will be back with a full episode on Monday. Sorry for the delay but sometime things don’t work out as planned.
Episode 77 - Lady of Burlesque
January 06, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 83.6 MB"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
Episode 76 - All That Heaven Allows
December 23, 2019 14:00 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MB"All That Heaven Allows" starring Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson and Agnes Moorehead. Wyman stars as a widow that falls in love with her younger gardener. This puts her at odds with the expectations of her children and community Director: Douglas Sirk Costume Designer: Bill Thomas (Gowns) Studio: Universal Pictures Year: 1955
Episode 75 - 3 Year Anniversary with Special Guest: Bob Mackie
December 09, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBOld 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.
Episode 74 - Rebecca
November 11, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 82.7 MB"Rebecca" starring Joan Fontaine, Lawrence Olivier, Judith Anderson and Reginald Denny. Fontaine stars as the young Mrs. De Winter who marries a widower, unwittingly ensnaring herself in a web laid by his dead wife. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Costume Designer: attributed to Irene Lentz Studio: United Artists Year: 1940
Episode 73 - Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood with Special Guest Scotty Bowers
October 28, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 100 MB“Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood" the documentary about Scotty Bowers, the legendary hustler that hooked up and hooked up with many Hollywood Legends. We had the pleasure of sitting down and speaking to Scotty Bowers himself. Director: Matt Tyrnauer Year: 2017
Episode 72 - Bell, Book and Candle - Ooky Spooky Dooky Series #4
October 15, 2019 13:00 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MB"Bell, Book and Candle" starring Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart, Elsa Lanchester, Jack Lemmon and Hermione Gingold. Kim Novak stars as a reluctant witch looking for love in NYC. Director: Richard Quine Costume Designer: Jean Louis Studio: Columbia Pictures Year: 1958
Episode 71 - With Special Guest: Costume Collector Larry McQueen
September 30, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBLarry 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.
Episode 70 - Charade
September 16, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 95.8 MB"Charade" starring Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Mattheau and James Coburn. Hepburn plays Regina Lampert who is being pursued by three dangerous thieves. Turns out her husband screwed them over which got him murdered. Director: Stanley Donen Costume Designer: Hubert de Givenchy Studio: Universal Picture Year: 1963
Episode 69 - Now, Voyager - with Special Guest: Eduardo Castro
September 02, 2019 13:00 - 98.7 MB"Now, Voyager" starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Ilka Chase and Mary Wickes. Davis stars as a frumpy young woman under the thumb of a domineering mother. With the help of therapy she blossoms into an elegant and independent woman. Director: Irving Rapper Costume Designer: Orry-Kelly Studio: Warner Bros. Year: 1942
Episode 68 - Easy to Love - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #5
August 19, 2019 13:00 - 81.6 MB"Easy to Love" starring Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin and John Bromfield. Williams plays a water skiing star pining for the love of her boss. After a trip to NYC love gets complicated as well as moist. Director: Charles Walters and Busby Berkeley Costume Designer: Helen Rose (Women’s Costumes) Studio: MGM Year: 1953
Episode 67 - Million Dollar Mermaid - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #4
August 05, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 108 MB"Million Dollar Mermaid" starring Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon and David Brian. Williams stars in the biopic of Annette Kellerman, famed Australian swimming star during the early part of the 20th Century. Director: Mervyn LeRoy Costume Designer: Walter Plunkett and Helen Rose for the musical numbers Studio: MGM Year: 1952
Episode 66 - Pagan Love Song - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #3
July 24, 2019 05:49 - 84.8 MB"Fiesta" starring Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Rita Moreno and Charles Mauu. Williams stars as a half Tahitian young woman who falls for a transplant from Ohio who inherits a coconut farm. Director: Robert Alton Costume Designer: Helen Rose Studio: MGM Year: 1950
Episode 65 - Fiesta - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #2
July 08, 2019 13:00 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MB"Fiesta" starring Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Chariesse, Mary Astor and John Carroll. Esther Williams plays twins with Ricardo Montalban who wants to be a composer but his father wants him to be a matador. Director: Richard Thorpe Costume Designer: Irene (Gowns) Studio: MGM Year: 1947
Episode 64 - Bathing Beauty - Sexy Summer Swimmer Series #1
June 24, 2019 13:00 - 59 minutes - 82.4 MB"Bathing Beauty" starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Basil Rathbone, Jean Porter, Xavier Cugat and Ethel Smith. Williams stars as a college swim instructor who’s husband is trying to win back her love after a plan to break them up. Director: George Sidney Costume Designer: Irene (Gowns) and Irene Sharaff (Water Ballet Costumes) Studio: MGM Year: 1944
Episode 63 - Thoroughly Modern Millie pt. 2
June 10, 2019 13:00 - 56 minutes - 77.3 MB"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
Episode 62 - Thoroughly Modern Millie pt. 1
May 27, 2019 13:00 - 72.3 MB"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
Episode 61 - Till The Clouds Roll By
April 08, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 85.5 MB"Till The Clouds Roll By" starring Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Lucille Bremer and Judy Garland. Walker stars in this biopic of prolific songwriter Jerome Kern. This MGM spectacular has musical numbers performed by a cavalcade of stars Director: Richard Whorf Costume Designer: Helen Rose Studio: MGM Year: 1946
Episode 60 - Three Wise Girls
March 25, 2019 13:00 - 59 minutes - 82.3 MB"Three Wise Girls" starring Jean Harlow, Mae Clark, Walter Bryon, Marie Prevost and Andy Devine. Harlow, Clark and Prevost star as three working girls in New York City. Looking for love but more importantly, looking for financial security! Director: William Beaudine Costume Designer: Uncredited Studio: Columbia Pictures Year: 1932
Episode 59- Born Yesterday
March 11, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 95.7 MB"Born Yesterday" starring Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford and William Holden. Holliday plays a tycoon’s girl who is put under Holden’s tutelage in order to help her learn proper etiquette. She learns more than expected. Director: George Cukor Costume Designer: Jean Louis (Gowns) Studio: Columbia Pictures Year: 1950
Episode 58 - Moulin Rouge
February 25, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 86.4 MB"Moulin Rouge" starring Jose Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Suzanne Flon. A biopic about the famous painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his time spent in the infamous dance hall Le Moulin Rouge. Director: John Huston Costume Designer: Maurice Vertes (Vertes) and Schiaparelli (Costumes for Miss Gabor) Studio: United Artists Year: 1952
Episode 57 - That Touch of Mink
February 11, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 90.3 MB"That Touch of Mink" starring Doris Day, Cary Grant, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows and John Astin. Doris Day stars as a young working woman who meets and falls for millionaire playboy Cary Grant. He’s into her too but he’s not the marrying type. What’s a girl to do? Director: Delbert Mann Costume Designer: Rosemary Odell (Gowns) Studio: Universal Studios Year: 1962
Episode 56 - Roberta
January 28, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 80.1 MB"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
Episode 55 - A Date With Judy
January 14, 2019 15:39 - 1 hour - 92.6 MB"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
Episode 54 - Mahogany - New Year's Eve Spectacular with Special Guest: Doug Thomson
December 31, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 114 MB"Mahogany" starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, and Anthony Perkins. Miss Ross stars as an aspiring fashion designer who becomes a world famous model in Italy. Director: Barry Gordy Costume Designer: Diana Ross Studio: Paramount Pictures Year: 1975
Episode 53 - Holiday Affair
December 17, 2018 14:00 - 58 minutes - 78.3 MB"Holiday Affair" starring Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey and Gordon Gebert. Mitchum and Leigh fall in love during the holidays over a toy train set. Director: Don Hartment Costume Designer: Howard Greer Studio: RKO Pictures Year: 1949
Episode 52 - Gone With The Wind - 2 Year Anniversary with Special Guest: Leighton Bowers
December 03, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 125 MB"Gone With The Wind" starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Hattie McDaniel, Olivia de Havilland and Leslie Howard. Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable star in this Hollywood Epic as a tumultuous pair of lovers who must survive the horrors during and after the Civil War. Director: Victor Fleming Costume Designer: Walter Plunkett Studio: MGM & Selznick Intl. Pictures Year: 1939 Old Hollywood REALNESS is turning 2 Year Old! In order to mark the occasion we are joined by Leighton Bowers from Western Cos...
Episode 51 - Leave Her To Heaven - Noir-vember #2
November 19, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 93.7 MB"Leave Her To Heaven" starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price and Mary Phillips. Tierney stars in this technicolor noir about a young woman who’s love and obsession with her husband threatens to destroy both them and everyone around her. Director: John M. Stahl Costume Designer: Kay Nelson Studio: 20th Century Fox Year: 1945
Episode 50 - Phantom Lady - Noir-vember #1 with Special Guest: Renee Patrick
November 05, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 83.4 MB"Phantom Lady" starring Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Thomas Gomez, Aurora Miranda and Franchot Tone. Ella Raines stars as the plucky assistant to Alan Curtis who is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife. She’s on the hunt to find a woman who can prove his innocence with the only lead being her unique hat. Director: Robert Siodmak Costume Designer: Vera West Hat Designer: Keneth Hopkins Studio: Universal Picture Year: 1944
Episode 49 - Plan 9 From Outer Space with Special Guest Dana Gould - Ooky Spooky Dooky Series #3
October 22, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MB"Plan 9 From Outer Space" starring Gregory Walcott, Duke Moore, Tor Johnson, Dudley Manlove, John Breckinridge, Maila Nurmi (Vampira) and bela Lugosi. A race of aliens reanimate the dead in order to take over the world. For the discussion Kathleen and Philip are joined by, Comedian and Ed Wood Expert, Dana Gould. Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. Wardrobe: Dick (Richard) Chaney Studio: Reynolds Picture Year: 1959
Episode 48 - Madam Satan - Ooky Spooky Dooky Series #2
October 08, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour - 112 MB"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
OHR Minisode 2 - Ruby Slippers Breaking News
September 26, 2018 13:00 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBJoin 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.
Episode 47 - The Mummy - Ooky Spooky Dooky Series #1
September 24, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour - 84.6 MB"The Mummy" starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners and Edward Van Sloan. Boris Karloff stars as a mummy risen from the dead to enact a vengeful curse and find his long lost love. Director: Karl Freund Costumes: Vera West Studio: Universal Pictures Year: 1932
Episode 46 - The Great Race
September 10, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour - 89.3 MB"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
Episode 45 - Forbidden Planet - Sexy Shakespeare Summer Series #5
August 27, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour - 111 MB"Forbidden Planet" starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen and Robby the Robot. Nielsen stars as the captain of a rescue mission to a mysterious planet in this sci-fi film inspired by Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Director: Fred M. Wilcox Costumes: Walter Plunkett & Helen Rose Studio: MGM Year: 1956