Rarified Heir Podcast
233 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsHost Josh Mills brings together a wide variety of adult children of celebrities for a fun, funny, bizarre, jaw-dropping, strange and wonderful look behind celebrity, by the people that know them best: their very own children.
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Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #18 : Tony Cobb (Lee J. Cobb)
April 06, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 197 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we talk to Tony Cobb, son of Lee J. Cobb. Yes, the twice Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actor Lee J. Cobb aka Johnny Friendly from On The Waterfront and the originator of the role of Willy Loman on Broadway in Death of a Salesman among a huge cannon of acting work. We talk about Tony’s memories of his dad as just being a dad – a car enthusiast, a man who loved fixing anything around the house, a man who loved cigars. But we also talk about The Blacklis...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #17 : Dave Jenkins (Paul Jenkins, Sally Kemp)
March 30, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 186 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to David Jenkins who has a three headed hydra of a connection to the business we call show. He’s proof indeed that yes, everyone has a story. David’s father was character actor Paul Jenkins who starred in more than 40 television programs in the 1970s and 80s on shows like Mannix, The Waltons, Dynasty, Barney Miller and Mash. His mother, Jane Jenkins is an award winning casting director who has worked with everyone from Francis Ford Coppola, ...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #17 : Dave Jenkins
March 30, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 186 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to David Jenkins who has a three headed hydra of a connection to the business we call show. He’s proof indeed that yes, everyone has a story. David’s father was character actor Paul Jenkins who starred in more than 40 television programs in the 1970s and 80s on shows like Mannix, The Waltons, Dynasty, Barney Miller and Mash. His mother, Jane Jenkins is an award winning casting director who has worked with everyone from Francis Ford Coppola, ...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #16 : Alison Martino (Al Martino)
March 23, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 171 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Alison Martino, daughter of Al Martino whose smooth baritone voice was sometimes classified as Popular Music or Classic Pop Romanticism but just don’t call him a crooner. We discuss everything with Alison including her father’s role in The Godfather, his incredible string of nine top 40 tunes from 1963 – 1968, Flippers Roller Boogie mecca of the 1970s, Iwo Jima, Command performances for the Queen of England, teenage haunts like LA’s The Posterma...
Rarified Heir Podcast #16 : Alison Martino
March 23, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 171 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Alison Martino, daughter of Al Martino whose smooth baritone voice was sometimes classified as Popular Music or Classic Pop Romanticism but just don’t call him a crooner. We discuss everything with Alison including her father’s role in The Godfather, his incredible string of nine top 40 tunes from 1963 – 1968, Flippers Roller Boogie mecca of the 1970s, Iwo Jima, Command performances for the Queen of England, teenage haunts like LA’s The Posterma...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode # 15 : Joe Gilford (Jack Gilford)
March 16, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Joe Gilford, son of the fantastic character actor Jack Gilford and his equally amazing mother, Madeline Lee Gilford. Of course we talk about Jack’s 50+ decade career in show business in everything from films like Cocoon to Caveman, his Oscar nominated performance in Save the Tiger as well as his comeback film, A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Forum along with guest starring roles in Taxi and Get Smart…and a whole lot more. But we really ...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode # 15 : Joe Gilford
March 16, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Joe Gilford, son of the fantastic character actor Jack Gilford and his equally amazing mother, Madeline Lee Gilford. Of course we talk about Jack’s 50+ decade career in show business in everything from films like Cocoon to Caveman, his Oscar nominated performance in Save the Tiger as well as his comeback film, A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Forum along with guest starring roles in Taxi and Get Smart…and a whole lot more. But we really ...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #14 : Chris Lemmon
March 09, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 178 MBToday on the Podcast, we are talking to someone Josh has known his whole life, actor Chris Lemmon, son of actress Cynthia Stone and the incomparable Jack Lemmon. Jack and host Josh Mills’ mom starred together in two films, The Apartment & Under The Yum Yum Tree, Jack and Ernie Kovacs starred in four movies together which cemented a great family friendship beginning in the 1950s. So what was it like growing up the son of one of the greatest actors this country has ever produced? Not as easy ...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #14 : Chris Lemmon (Jack Lemmon)
March 09, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 178 MBToday on the Podcast, we are talking to someone Josh has known his whole life, actor Chris Lemmon, son of actress Cynthia Stone and the incomparable Jack Lemmon. Jack and host Josh Mills’ mom starred together in two films, The Apartment & Under The Yum Yum Tree, Jack and Ernie Kovacs starred in four movies together which cemented a great family friendship beginning in the 1950s. So what was it like growing up the son of one of the greatest actors this country has ever produced? Not as easy ...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #13 : Andy Marx (Groucho Marx, Gus Kahn)
March 02, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 177 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are deviating slightly from our format of interviewing the children of celebrities as we are talking to the grandchildren of celebrities and boy do we have a good reason. Today we are talking to Andy Marx who has not just one incredible grandfather but two. Andy is the grandson of the amazing Groucho Marx as well as songwriter Gus Kahn. Whoa. Andy gives us the lowdown on what it was like spending time with Groucho archiving his hit TV show You Bet Your L...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #13 : Andy Marx
March 02, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 177 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are deviating slightly from our format of interviewing the children of celebrities as we are talking to the grandchildren of celebrities and boy do we have a good reason. Today we are talking to Andy Marx who has not just one incredible grandfather but two. Andy is the grandson of the amazing Groucho Marx as well as songwriter Gus Kahn. Whoa. Andy gives us the lowdown on what it was like spending time with Groucho archiving his hit TV show You Bet Your L...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #12 : Jeff Sherman (The Sherman Brothers, Robert Sherman)
February 23, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 182 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Jeff Sherman, son of legendary songwriter Robert Sherman. Disney fans won’t have a problem identifying Robert Sherman as one half of the brother songwriting team of The Sherman Brothers who wrote some of the most beloved songs of the last sixty years. Along with his brother Richard, Robert was personally hired by Walt Disney to score some of the most iconic films that every child (and adult) born after the Eisenhower administration knows ...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #12 : Jeff Sherman
February 23, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 182 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Jeff Sherman, son of legendary songwriter Robert Sherman. Disney fans won’t have a problem identifying Robert Sherman as one half of the brother songwriting team of The Sherman Brothers who wrote some of the most beloved songs of the last sixty years. Along with his brother Richard, Robert was personally hired by Walt Disney to score some of the most iconic films that every child (and adult) born after the Eisenhower administration knows ...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #11 : Amanda Aday
February 16, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Amanda Aday, daughter of Marvin Lee Aday. Or ML as his friends call him. You and I know him as Meat Loaf. With more than 80 million albums sold and more than 100 million streams of his iconic ballad “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)”, Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell is the third best-selling album of all-time after Michael Jackson’s Thriller and AC/DC’s Back in Black. We talk to Amanda about ML’s wildly talented musical career w...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #11 : Amanda Aday (Meat Loaf)
February 16, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Amanda Aday, daughter of Marvin Lee Aday. Or ML as his friends call him. You and I know him as Meat Loaf. With more than 80 million albums sold and more than 100 million streams of his iconic ballad “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)”, Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell is the third best-selling album of all-time after Michael Jackson’s Thriller and AC/DC’s Back in Black. We talk to Amanda about ML’s wildly talented musical career w...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #10 : Jordan Summers
February 09, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 187 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are diving head first into the wild world of socially distanced interviews. On this episode, we are talking to Jordan Summers, son of actor and Screen Actors Guild President Yale Summers. Yale Summers was most known role was as Jack Dane on the Sixties television show Daktari as well as recurring roles on as the ABC Soap Opera General Hospital & Return to Peyton Place. But what he is best remembered for was his almost a quarter century devotion to SAG...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #10 : Jordan Summers (Yale Summers)
February 09, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 187 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are diving head first into the wild world of socially distanced interviews. On this episode, we are talking to Jordan Summers, son of actor and Screen Actors Guild President Yale Summers. Yale Summers was most known role was as Jack Dane on the Sixties television show Daktari as well as recurring roles on as the ABC Soap Opera General Hospital & Return to Peyton Place. But what he is best remembered for was his almost a quarter century devotion to SAG...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #9 : Jason Klamm
February 02, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 102 MBToday on the Rarified Heir podcast, we are doing something different. Today we are speaking to Rarified Heir Podcast co-host Jason Klamm. But there is good reason for that: Josh never got around to properly introducing me on our first episode. And a listener pointed that out. So today, we are going to delve deep into Oneonta New York, laundry clotheslines as well as my own podcast Comedy on Vinyl, lost comedian Dick Davy and much more. So sit back and take a listen to our very first Zoom int...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode # 8 : Morgan Margolis
January 26, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 155 MBToday we are speaking to Morgan Margolis, CEO of Knitting Factory Entertainment and the son of actor Mark Margolis and Jacqueline Margolis. Likely you will know Mark Margolis from his breakout role Salamanca from the television show Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul as well as HBO’s Oz as well as the iconic films Scarface, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan. Host Josh met Morgan six years ago when their children were in elementary school together. They both work in the music ...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode # 8 : Morgan Margolis (Mark Margolis)
January 26, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 155 MBToday we are speaking to Morgan Margolis, CEO of Knitting Factory Entertainment and the son of actor Mark Margolis and Jacqueline Margolis. Likely you will know Mark Margolis from his breakout role Salamanca from the television show Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul as well as HBO’s Oz as well as the iconic films Scarface, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan. Host Josh met Morgan six years ago when their children were in elementary school together. They both work in the music ...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #7 : Adam Shawn
January 19, 2021 14:34 - 1 hour - 165 MBToday on Rarified Heir, we are talking to Adam Shawn, son of the great actor, comedian and monologist Dick Shawn. On the day we taped this podcast, we had met Adam one-week prior via a mutual at an Ernie Kovacs Centennial event at the Hollywood Heritage Museum I presented. It’s strange that Adam and host Josh Mills had never met. Dick Shawn starred in two films with his mother Edie Adams, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and “Evil Roy Slade”. What’s more Dick Shawn was a guest on his mom...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #7 : Adam Shawn (Dick Shawn)
January 19, 2021 14:34 - 1 hour - 165 MBToday on Rarified Heir, we are talking to Adam Shawn, son of the great actor, comedian and monologist Dick Shawn. On the day we taped this podcast, we had met Adam one-week prior via a mutual at an Ernie Kovacs Centennial event at the Hollywood Heritage Museum I presented. It’s strange that Adam and host Josh Mills had never met. Dick Shawn starred in two films with his mother Edie Adams, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and “Evil Roy Slade”. What’s more Dick Shawn was a guest on his mom...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode # 6 : Shawn Kay (John Kay, Steppenwolf)
January 12, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 153 MBIt's up! Episode # 6 for the Rarified Heir Podcast is speaking to Shawn Kay, daughter of John Kay, founder of the iconic classic rock band Steppenwolf. Classic rock anthems like “Born to be Wild” and “Magic Carpet Ride” pushed the band to enormous success with more than 25 million albums sold and eight gold records. Moreover, John Kay is credited with coining the term “Heavy Metal” and became synonymous with biker culture when the Steppenwolf’s music was used in the counter culture classi...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode # 6 : Shawn Kay
January 12, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 153 MBIt's up! Episode # 6 for the Rarified Heir Podcast is speaking to Shawn Kay, daughter of John Kay, founder of the iconic classic rock band Steppenwolf. Classic rock anthems like “Born to be Wild” and “Magic Carpet Ride” pushed the band to enormous success with more than 25 million albums sold and eight gold records. Moreover, John Kay is credited with coining the term “Heavy Metal” and became synonymous with biker culture when the Steppenwolf’s music was used in the counter culture classi...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode # 5 : Antonia Bogdanovich (Peter Bogdanovich, Polly Platt)
January 05, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBToday we are speaking to Antonia Bogdonovich, daughter famed film director Peter Bogdonovich (Paper Moon, The Last Picture Show, Targets) and her equally talented mother, the producer, production designer and screenwriter Polly Platt (Pretty Baby, Terms of Endearment, Say Anything…). And like many of our guests, Antonia and our host Josh Mills went to elementary school together in the 1970s. But before taping this podcast, they hadn’t seen each other in decades. Rarified Heir goet deep int...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode # 5 : Antonia Bogdanovich
January 05, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBToday we are speaking to Antonia Bogdonovich, daughter famed film director Peter Bogdonovich (Paper Moon, The Last Picture Show, Targets) and her equally talented mother, the producer, production designer and screenwriter Polly Platt (Pretty Baby, Terms of Endearment, Say Anything…). And like many of our guests, Antonia and our host Josh Mills went to elementary school together in the 1970s. But before taping this podcast, they hadn’t seen each other in decades. Rarified Heir goet deep int...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #4: Jason Culp
December 29, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 174 MBToday, on the Rarified Heir podcast, we are speaking to Jason Culp, son of actor, director and writer Robert Culp. And shockingly, Jason and Josh did NOT go to school together but did attend the same high school - years apart. It’s a theme we can’t get away from and it’s really, it’s the impetus for this podcast.
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #4: Jason Culp (Robert Culp)
December 29, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 174 MBToday, on the Rarified Heir podcast, we are speaking to Jason Culp, son of actor, director and writer Robert Culp. And shockingly, Jason and Josh did NOT go to school together but did attend the same high school - years apart. It’s a theme we can’t get away from and it’s really, it’s the impetus for this podcast.
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode 3: Carnie Wilson
December 22, 2020 14:13 - 1 hour - 161 MBToday we are speaking to Carnie Wilson. Most likely you know Carnie from her multi-million selling group Wilson Phillips. But Josh met Carnie years ago, in 2nd grade, when The Beach Boys were THE BEACH BOYS. He’s known Carnie essentially all of his life, having gone to elementary school and junior high school with her in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 80s. What's it like being the daughter of one of The Beach Boys and The Honeys? Find out now on the Rarified Heir Po...
Rarified Heir Podcast Episode 3: Carnie Wilson (Brian Wilson)
December 22, 2020 14:13 - 1 hour - 161 MBToday we are speaking to Carnie Wilson. Most likely you know Carnie from her multi-million selling group Wilson Phillips. But Josh met Carnie years ago, in 2nd grade, when The Beach Boys were THE BEACH BOYS. He’s known Carnie essentially all of his life, having gone to elementary school and junior high school with her in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 80s. What's it like being the daughter of one of The Beach Boys and The Honeys? Find out now on the Rarified Heir Po...
Rarified Heir Podcast Intro. Episode #2
December 15, 2020 08:00 - 57 minutes - 138 MBIn 2018, I was invited to the opening of the National Comedy Center in Jamestown New York. I had reached out to the center months prior to inquire if they had interest in showcasing some of the items I had from the estate of my late mother actress/comedian Edie Adams and that of her first husband, groundbreaking comedian Ernie Kovacs. They were receptive and that Summer I found myself at the NCC. What struck me immediately was that the National Comedy Center had invited the estates and fa...
Rarified Heir Podcast Intro. Episode #2 - Host Josh Mills (Edie Adams)
December 15, 2020 08:00 - 57 minutes - 138 MBIn 2018, I was invited to the opening of the National Comedy Center in Jamestown New York. I had reached out to the center months prior to inquire if they had interest in showcasing some of the items I had from the estate of my late mother actress/comedian Edie Adams and that of her first husband, groundbreaking comedian Ernie Kovacs. They were receptive and that Summer I found myself at the NCC. What struck me immediately was that the National Comedy Center had invited the estates and fa...
Rarified Heir Podcast 1 Min. Promo
December 08, 2020 08:00 - 1 minute - 7.78 MBRarified Heir is a podcast that interviews children of celebrities by the child of a celebrity. Joshua Mills, son of Actress and Comedian Edie Adams (www.edieadams.com) and Celebrity and Sports Photographer Martin Mills (www.martinmillsphotography.com) grew up in Hollywood during the 1970s. His family home had five people with four different last names living under one roof. He grew up with step fathers, step sisters, half-sisters and relations once removed. Mills grew up in the house h...