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EPISODE 59 - "POLITICS: THROUGH THE LENS OF CLASSIC CINEMA" - 10/28/2024 As we all get ready to go to the polls and vote in what might be the most important election of our lives, we wanted to take a look at politics in the films of old Hollywood. This week, we explore the movies that reflected the politics and the issues of the day and left an indelible mark on cinema. From labor wars in New Mexico to a mayor's race in New England to the early years of Abraham Lincoln, join us as we take a look at some great political movies.  SHOW NOTES:  Sources: Hearst Over Hollywood (2002), by Louis Pizzitola; Pictures at A Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of a New Hollywood (2008), by Mark Harris;  Hollywood's White House (2010), by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor; The Great Depression on Film (2022), by David Luhrssen;   “The Best Man Took On Cutthroat Campaigning,” August 21, 2024, The Hollywood Reporter; “How Blacklisted Hollywood Artists Joined Forces to Make a Truly Subversive film,” June 6, 2024, forward.com; “Subversives: Salt of the Earth,” UCTV TCM.com; IMDBPro.com; IBDB.com; Wikipedia.com; Movies Mentioned:  Gabriel Over the White House (1933), starring Walter Huston, Karen Morely, Franchot Tone, Dickie Moore, David Landau, Arthur Byron, Jean Parker, and C. Henry Gordon; Salt of the Earth (1954), starring Juan Chacón, Rosaura Revueltas, Mervin Williams, Henrietta Williams, and Virginia Jencks; The Great McGinty (1940), starring Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest, Allyn Joslyn, Louis Jean Heydt, Thurston Hall, Jimmy Conlin, and Arthur Hoyt; The Best Man (1964), starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Ann Sothern, Lee Tracy, Shelley Berman, Kevin McCarthy, and Gene Raymond; The Last Hurrah (1958), starring Spencer Tracy, Jeffery Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O'Brien, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, James Gleason, John Carradine, Willis Bouchey, Ricardo Cortez, Ken Curtis, Frank Albertson, Anna Lee, and Jane Darwell; The Parallax View (1974), starring Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Walter McGinn, and Hume Cronyn; Three Days of the Condor (1975), starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman, Addison Powell, Tina Chen, Walter McGinn, Michael Kane, Carlin Glynn, and Hank Garrett; Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), starring Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Gene Lockhart, Mary Howard, Minor Watson, Howard Da Silva, and Alan Baxter; --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EPISODE 44 - "THERESA HARRIS: HOW OLD HOLLYWOOD STOPPED HER STAR FROM RISING" - 07/15/2024 ** This episode is sponsored brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/BENEATH and get on your way to being your best self.” ** When THERESA HARRIS appears on screen, you cannot take your eyes off of her. Beautiful, talented, and a skilled singer and dancer, she lights up any scene she's in. Despite appearing in over 100 films, she rarely received screen credit and most often played a maid, waitress, or other types of domestic servant. Her parts were small, but her charisma and presence on screen were enormous! As a black woman in the early days of Hollywood, she was limited in the roles she could perform by the restrictive Hayes Code of 1934 and the horrible Jim Crow laws of the South. Still, she is a welcome presence in so many classic films. This week, we look at the extraordinary life and career of the talented THERESA HARRIS.  SHOW NOTES:  Sources: “Theresa Harris, Credited and Uncredited in Over 100 Films,” March 28, 2024, by Herb Boyd, New York Amsterdam News; “Just a Maid in Movies, But Not Forgotten,” April 21, 2011, by Manohla Dargis, The New York Times; “The Underrated Charms of Theresa Harris,” July 11, 2020, by Constance Cherise, TCM.com; “Theresa Harris: Television and Film Actress of the 1930s,” August 18, 2023, by Jae Jones, BackThen.com; “Actress Theresa Harris Hollywood Vixen Turned Servant,”September 2, 2011, by Veronica Wells, Madamenoire; IMDBPro.com; Wikipedia.com; Movies Mentioned:  Thunderbolt (1929), starring Fay Wray and George Brent; Hold Your Man (1932), starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable; Baby Face (1933), starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent; Professional Sweetheart (1933), starring Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, and Zasu Pitts; Horse Feathers (1932), starring The Marx Brothers and Thelma Todd; Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), starring Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, and Ginger Rogers; Morning Glory (1933), starring Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr; Flying Down to Rio (1933), starring Delores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Ginger Rogers, and Fred Astaire; Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), starring Jack Benny and Eleanor Powell; Banjo On My Knee (1936), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea; Bargain With Bullets (aka The Gangster's On The Loose) (1937), starring Ralph Cooper and Theresa Harris; Jezebel (1938), starring Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, and George Brent; Tell No Tales (1939), starring Melvyn Douglas and Louise Platt; Buck Benny Rides Again (1940), starring Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, and Theresa Harris; What's Buzzin' Cousin? (1943), starring Jack Benny and Ann Miller; Blossoms In The Dust (1941), starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Marsha Hunt; Our Wife (1941), starring Melvyn Douglas, Ruth Hussey, and Ellen Drew; Cat People (1942), starring Kent Smith, Simone Simon, Jane Randolph, and Tom Conway; I Walked With A Zombie (1943), starring Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Darby Jones, and Christine Gordon; The Dolly Sisters (1945), starring Betty Grable, John Payne, and June Haver; Three Little Girls In Blue (1946), starring George Montgomery, Vera-Ellen, and June Haver; Miracle on 34th Street (1947), starring Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, and Natalie Wood; Out of the Past (1947), staring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas; Angel Face (1952), starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons; --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast February 1 to February 21, 1937. Starring Gary Cooper, The Cast of the Lux Radio Theater, Cecille B. Demille , Faye Gillis, Kay Kyser Orchestra, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Wallington, Rufus Le Maire, Gene Raymond, Anna Sten, Father Coughlin, Leslie … Continue reading When Radio Ruled – Soundscape 1937 part 4

In this classic from the "Golden Age of Radio" Gene Raymond stars as a jaded reporter in search of a story who meets a remarkably generous man, played by Gene Lockhart (Miracle on 34th Street). Is he for real? Originally broadcast in 1948, Family Theater Productions presents the story here with a new introduction from Father David Guffey, C.S.C.

Author and Cinevent dealer Maggie McCormick discusses her book series I'll See You Again: The Bittersweet Love Story and Wartime Letters of Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond. 

On this week's bonus episode of What's in the Basket, we're turning our attentions to the original primble in our research-free discussion of three RKO romantic comedies starring Ann Sothern and Gene Raymond: Walking on Air (1936), Smartest Girl in Town (1936), and She's Got Everything (1937). First we address the absurdity of the films themselves and the utter desperation that emanates from the Sothern-Raymond pairing, then we descend into a flurry of confusion that touches upon half-remembered nudists, the baffling Gene Raymond-Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy interpersonal dynamic, and a surprising (or unsurprising?) amount of completely unrelated Lew Ayres discourse. Show Notes & Sources: https://whatsinthebasket.home.blog/2019/11/06/bonus-04-three-ann-sothern-gene-raymond-rom-coms-i-cant-believe-its-not-nelson-eddy Theme Music by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io): "Dark Hallway (Distressed)" and "The Show Must Be Go"

Best known for being fancied by a gigantic ape, in real life, Fay Wray contended with a beast far worse--her first husband, screenwriter John Monk Saunders. She gave strong performances even when her home life was less than desirable. In Ann Carver's Profession, she plays a hot-shot attorney who routinely lands on the front page. As her career progresses, her on-screen husband (played by Gene Raymond) suffers untold misery because she forgets that he doesn't take sugar in his coffee. I close the episode with a brief passage from Fay Wray's memoir, On the Other Hand: A Life Story.

Based on Craig Riceâs (a female crime novelist who rivaled Agatha Christie in book sales) novels of crime drama, Frank Lovejoy (and later Gene Raymond and George Petrie) plays âfictionâs most famous criminal lawyer,â John J. Malone. Mr. Malone is our amazing hero, a Chicago lawyer whose bar is more famous than Cheers. His hobby is collecting clichÃs, and each weeks show is based off of one: cleanliness is next to Godliness, a strong offense is the best defense, seek and ye shall find, and so on. Stories are gripping, from tales of Chicagoâs biggest operator who runs a nightclub and his right hand man, to a man looking for trouble in a hotel and finds it in room 419, to a story of a man who owns the most luscious gambling joint this side of Vegas. So brush up on your one liners, and grab your gun, because youâll want to tune in for this exciting half hour of mystery!

Based on Craig Riceâs (a female crime novelist who rivaled Agatha Christie in book sales) novels of crime drama, Frank Lovejoy (and later Gene Raymond and George Petrie) plays âfictionâs most famous criminal lawyer,â John J. Malone. Mr. Malone is our amazing hero, a Chicago lawyer whose bar is more famous than Cheers. His hobby is collecting clichÃs, and each weeks show is based off of one: cleanliness is next to Godliness, a strong offense is the best defense, seek and ye shall find, and so on. Stories are gripping, from tales of Chicagoâs biggest operator who runs a nightclub and his right hand man, to a man looking for trouble in a hotel and finds it in room 419, to a story of a man who owns the most luscious gambling joint this side of Vegas. So brush up on your one liners, and grab your gun, because youâll want to tune in for this exciting half hour of mystery!

Based on Craig Riceâs (a female crime novelist who rivaled Agatha Christie in book sales) novels of crime drama, Frank Lovejoy (and later Gene Raymond and George Petrie) plays âfictionâs most famous criminal lawyer,â John J. Malone. Mr. Malone is our amazing hero, a Chicago lawyer whose bar is more famous than Cheers. His hobby is collecting clichÃs, and each weeks show is based off of one: cleanliness is next to Godliness, a strong offense is the best defense, seek and ye shall find, and so on. Stories are gripping, from tales of Chicagoâs biggest operator who runs a nightclub and his right hand man, to a man looking for trouble in a hotel and finds it in room 419, to a story of a man who owns the most luscious gambling joint this side of Vegas. So brush up on your one liners, and grab your gun, because youâll want to tune in for this exciting half hour of mystery!

Based on Craig Riceâs (a female crime novelist who rivaled Agatha Christie in book sales) novels of crime drama, Frank Lovejoy (and later Gene Raymond and George Petrie) plays âfictionâs most famous criminal lawyer,â John J. Malone. Mr. Malone is our amazing hero, a Chicago lawyer whose bar is more famous than Cheers. His hobby is collecting clichÃs, and each weeks show is based off of one: cleanliness is next to Godliness, a strong offense is the best defense, seek and ye shall find, and so on. Stories are gripping, from tales of Chicagoâs biggest operator who runs a nightclub and his right hand man, to a man looking for trouble in a hotel and finds it in room 419, to a story of a man who owns the most luscious gambling joint this side of Vegas. So brush up on your one liners, and grab your gun, because youâll want to tune in for this exciting half hour of mystery! Online Meetings Made Easy with GoToMeeting Try it Free for 45 days use Promo Code Podcast