"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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 Cost...
"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
"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...
"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...
"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
Join 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....
"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
"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
"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
"Romeo and Juliet" starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone and Reginald Denny. Shearer and Howard play the titular characters from Shakespeare's immortal tale of love between two warring families. Director: George Cukor Costumes: Adrian and Oliver Messel Studio: MGM Year: 1936
West Side Story" starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno and George Chakiris. Wood and Beymer play lovers from rival street gangs in this remake of Romeo and Juliette. Dance fighting, star crossed lovers and a couple murders make for a classic musical. Director: Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise Costumes: Irene Sharaff Studio: United Artists Year: 1961
"Taming of the Shrew" starring Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Fairbanks and Pickford star in an adaptation of the William Shakespeare play about a gold digging man who tries to marry a woman with anger management issues. Director: Sam Taylor Costumes: Mitchell Leisen Studio: United Artists Year: 1929
"Kiss Me Kate" starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ann Miller, Tommy Rall and Bob Fosse. Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson star as warring exes in a musical production of "Taming of the Shrew." Director: George Sydney Costumes: Walter Plunkett Studio: MGM Year: 1953
"The Seven Year Itch" starring Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell and Evelyn Keyes. Tom Ewell stars as a husband left behind in Manhattan for the summer where he meets his enchanting upstairs neighbor, Marilyn Monroe. What could go wrong? Director: Billy Wilder Costumes: Travilla Studio: 20th Century Fox Year: 1955
"Platinum Blonde" starring Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, and Loretta Young. Robert Williams plays a savvy newspaper reporter who falls for a rich socialite. Things get tense when it isn't clear who wears the pants. Director: Frank Capra Costumes: Edward Stevenson Studio: Columbia Pictures Year: 1931
"All About Eve" starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe and Thelma Ritter. Bette Davis stars as an older established theater star who's biggest fan turned assistant has eyes on a career of her own. Director: Joseph L. Menkiewicz Costumes: Bette Davis' Gowns by Edith Head Studio: 20th Century Fox Year: 1950
"The Wizard of Oz" starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton. Garland stars as a young farm girl who is whisked to a magical land via tornado. While trying to get home she meets several enchanted friends on her journey to meet the titular wizard. Director: Victor Fleming Costumes: Adrian Studio: MGM Year: 1939
"Stage Door" starring Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolph Menjou, Gail Patrick, Ann Miller and Lucille Ball. Hepburn and Rogers lead an ensemble cast of ladies aspiring to make it big on Broadway at any cost. Director: Gregory La Cava Costumes: Muriel King Studio: RKO Year: 1937
"Cabaret" starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Marisa Bereson and Fritz Wepper. Liza Minnelli stars as a cabaret singer, who shows a sheltered Michael York the sometimes fantastic and sometimes tragic life of Berlin, all the while the rise of The Third Reich looms in the distance. Director: Bob Fosse Costumes: Charlotte Flemming Studio: ABC Pictures/Allied Artists Year: 1972...
