Podcasts about hollywood in color

Diana Martinez is the creator, host and producer of Hollywood In Color, a podcast telling the stories of the stars usually left out of entertainment history — the people of color in front of and behind the camera who have been representing for over a century. On episode 11 of Pop& Down, Diana discusses her experiences with anxiety and disordered eating, and about how she saw her own depression reflected in Gretchen Cutler's on the FXX series, You're The Worst. Diana touches on mental health implications regarding Latina women in Hollywood, academic perfectionism and how pop music helped her through grief. She also shares about how Dawson's Creek impacted her views on love and romance and intellectual compatibility! Listen to Hollywood In Color on your favorite podcatcher, and find Diana and the podcast here: www.hollywoodincolor.org https://www.instagram.com/hwoodincolor/ https://www.instagram.com/dianaemmeline/ https://twitter.com/hwoodincolor https://twitter.com/diana_emmeline ***Support Pop& Down on Patreon for as little as $1 a month*** https://www.patreon.com/popanddown

In the third and final episode of the season, Hattie finds it difficult to keep up as Hollywood and her community forge ahead to a new era of black representation and politics.

When Gone with the Wind was released, critics were flabbergasted by the willing participation from black actors to be in the film. Hattie McDaniel was at the center of this controversy. She really wanted the part, but she couldn’t foresee, or, maybe she just didn’t care, about the backlash.

"Mammy" is only one role of many that made up Hattie McDaniel's multi-faceted career. She was also a singer, a songwriter, a stage and vaudeville veteran, a comedian, and a radio personality. In the first episode of the season, we follow her journey from Denver, Colorado to Hollywood.

In the last episode of the season, we look at Lupe’s and Dolores’ careers in the late 1930s to the mid 1940s, when both women leave Hollywood when it becomes an unwelcome space and place. Season 2 begins June 19.

In the fourth episode of the season, we look at Dolores’ career during the Hollywood transition to sound film. The coming of sound limited Dolores’ roles. They became more stereotypical and forgettable. With her accent, sound amplified the difference that her Spanish señorita persona had overcome.

In this episode, we see how Lupe Vélez rose to stardom in Dolores’ shadow and how the differences between her and Dolores evolved along simple, fraught, lines. Dolores was the “good” Mexican, and Lupe, in her relationship with actor Gary Cooper, became the "bad Mexican."

In this episode, Dolores Del Río becomes a transnational superstar when she undergoes a makeover where she seemingly leaves behind her Mexicanidad and assumes a Spanish identity. Interestingly, this parallels Southern California's own transformation, which covered over its Mexican past in favor of a mythical Spanish heritage.

Season 1: Lupe Vélez and Dolores Del Río, Las Reinas — the Queens — of Los Angeles starts in 1920s Mexico, where Lupe and Dolores grew up and found their love for performance. We’ll follow Lupe and Dolores as they make their way to Hollywood from Mexico and taste their first sips of stardom.

Hollywood in Color is a new podcast telling the stories of the stars usually left out of entertainment history — the people of color in front of and behind the camera who have been representing for over a century. Season 1 begins April 17, 2018.