Casablanca: Hollywood Stage

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Jezebel: Hollywood Stage

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The Awful Truth: Hollywood Stage

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My Favorite Wife: Hollywood Stage

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Shadow of a Doubt: Hollywood Stage

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Suspicion: Hollywood Stage

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town: Hollywood Stage

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The Front Page: Hollywood Stage

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King Solomon's Mines: Hollywood Stage

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon: Hollywood Stage

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The African Queen: Hollywood Stage

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Stage Door: Hollywood Stage

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Key Largo: Hollywood Stage

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The Scarlet Pimpernel: Hollywood Stage

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The Plainsman: Hollywood Stage

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Little Women: Hollywood Stage

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Irene: Hollywood Stage

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Algiers: Hollywood Stage

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Only Angels Have Wings: Hollywood Stage

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Strawberry Blonde: Hollywood Stage

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The Perfect Specimen: Hollywood Stage

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Mildred Pierce: Hollywood Stage

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Chained: Hollywood Stage

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This Land Is Mine: Hollywood Stage

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This Gun for Hire: Hollywood Stage

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Bob and Ray

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British Agent: Hollywood Stage

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The Buccaneer: Hollywood Stage

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Blood and Sand: Hollywood Stage

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Mary of Scotland: Hollywood Stage

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Greatest Christmas Shows, Volume 4: Ten Classic Shows from the Golden Era of Radio

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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

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The Grapes of Wrath

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Death of a Salesman

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The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book

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Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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The Power of Myth

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NPR Funniest Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go

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Othello: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Hamlet: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Cinema Speculation

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Macbeth: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Save the Cat!

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Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time

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Julius Caesar: A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre

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Is this Anything?

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When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice From a Professional Clown

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Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

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Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

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Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life

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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

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The Science of Storytelling

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Wuthering Heights (dramatic reading)

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Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?

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Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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Gielgud's Hamlet: (Dramatized)

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Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

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Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

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Pure Drivel

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136: Yvonne De Carlo: The Seduced, Episode 5

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139: Mary Astor's Diary (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 13): In 1936, actress Mary Astor (who had not yet made her most famous film, The Maltese Falcon) and her husband went to court to fight for custody of their four year-old daughter. The trail made international news thanks to both sides’ use of Astor’s diary, in which she had recorded details of her affair with playwright George S. Kaufman. How much did Astor truly reveal in her diary, and what role did the scandal play in her life and career?

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141: Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert, and the “sewing circle” (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 15): The bisexuality of Marlene Dietrich was not exactly a secret in 1930s Hollywood -- in fact, her ambiguous sexuality was part of her on-screen brand. But there is some debate as to who Dietrich counted among her lovers, and which of her fellow stars participated in what has been called the “sewing circle” of female intimacy. Anger alleges that Dietrich had a “passionate affair” with Claudette Colbert, an Oscar-winning actress with an extremely heteronormative persona. We’ll explore what was going on in Dietrich’s life and career around the time when this affair could have taken place, and then delve into Colbert’s image as a very different kind of on-screen sex symbol, and her complicated off-screen personal life. 

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Rocky Fortune and Radio City Playhouse: Frank Sinatra is Rocky Fortune in, Psychological Murder. That episode from March 16, 1954, is the first story on this week's Relic Radio Show. (25:25) Our second episode is Special Delivery, from Radio City Playhouse. This story was originally broadcast A

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142: Bugsy Siegel (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 16): Jewish gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel is frequently credited with corrupting Hollywood’s unions and “inventing” Las Vegas. Siegel did have movie star friends, but the true story of his involvement with the Flamingo casino is also the story of a much bigger movieland player: Hollywood Reporter founder/publisher/columnist Billy Wilkerson. 

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The Night Stalker (1972) (Podcast Discussion): This week we kick off our Fall 2020 Season with The Night Stalker, the original 1972 movie that introduced the character of Carl Kolchak. (Episode 309.)

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137: Gina Lollobrigida (The Seduced, Episode 6): This Italian pin-up, along with Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot, was emblematic of a brand of post-war European sexuality that America happily imported. But the Hollywood career of  “La Lollo” was delayed, thanks to Howard Hughes, whose obsession with Lollobrigida led him to keep her virtually imprisoned in a Los Angeles hotel and sign her to a contract that essentially made it impossible for her to work for any other U.S. producer.

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EP0354: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Grand Old Man: Sherlock Holmes needs to ensure that a dying elderly playwrite isn’t murdered, and to help him find the living relatives of the man whose play he stole. Original Air Date: December 21, 1946

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater and Five Minute Mysteries: Case Closed beings with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater this week. We hear their adaptation of A Study In Scarlet, first heard March 25, 1977. (54:23) Five Minute Mysteries closes out this week's show with The Private Elevator, their story from May 13, 1948

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138: Mae West (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 12): Mae West was the biggest new star in Hollywood in 1933, thanks to two hit films she co-wrote and starred in as a sexually implicit, wisecracking broad who romanced a young Cary Grant. In Hollywood Babylon, Anger credits West’s abrupt decline in movies to a coordinated conspiracy organized by William Randolph Hearst and carried out by the Hays Office. Today we’ll explore West’s background, her history of pushing the censors past the limits of legality, and the truth of her lightning-fast rise in Hollywood and somewhat slower descent back to earth. 

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Mel Brooks Encore: Leonard and Jessie spend quality time with the one and only Mel Brooks, who’s as spry as ever and bursting with great stories. He reveals the name of the funniest comedy he ever saw, talks about Young Frankenstein, Blazing...

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Voyage of the Scarlet Queen - Shore Leave and the Unhappy Wife: Broadcast in the late 1940s, this adventure series centers around the travels of a tramp steamer called The Scarlet Queen to exotic ports of call in the Pacific. The show's use of the ship's log as a narrative device is reminiscent of Star Trek and may well be where Gene Roddenberry lifted the idea from. The stories themselves are a pleasing mix of swashbuckling Indiana Jones and hard-boiled detective, liberally seasoned with saltwater for flavoring. In this episode, the ship is chartered for a lucrative voyage, but before she can set sail, the first mate is accused of murder and it is up to the captain to prove his innocence.

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Episode 402 – There’s Nothing Like a Dame (Radio City Playhouse & Hercule Poirot): We're celebrating the birthday of master of mystery Agatha Christie with a pair of old time radio shows. First, her story "Witness for the Prosecution" is adapted for Radio City Playhouse (originally aired on NBC on April 25, 1949). Then, Harold...

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153: Hollywood’s First Weight Loss Guru: Madame Sylvia (Make Me Over, Episode 2): Glamorous and shrewd, Sylvia of Hollywood became the movie industry’s first weight-loss guru during the end of the silent era. An immigrant of mysterious origin, she would cannily market herself to clients like Gloria Swanson, who she promised to ‘slenderize, refine, reduce and squeeze’ into shape. But her taste for gossip and publicity would become her downfall in the 1930s when she published a catty tell-all memoir about her star clients. This episode was written and performed by Christina Newland, an award-winning journalist on film, pop culture and boxing at Sight & Sound Magazine, Little White Lies, VICE, Hazlitt, The Ringer and others. She loves 70s Americana, boxing flicks, fashion and old Hollywood lore. She was born in New York and lives in Nottingham, England.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - 0001 - The Old Ones Are Hard to Kill: An old woman takes in a mysterious border who is very sick. While he is dying, the stranger makes an incredible deathbed confession that brings danger and trouble into the house.

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116: Bela and the Vampires (Bela & Boris Part 2): With Dracula (1931), Bela Lugosi instantly became the first horror star of sound cinema.

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Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade: Case Closed begins with The Young Man's Fancy, the August 18, 1951, episode from The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe. (30:30) Our second case is The Death Bed Caper, from The Adventures Of Sam Spade. That story aired June 20, 1948. https://www.podtrac.com/pt

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Episode 487 - Hayes Code (The Whistler, Richard Diamond, & Sam Spade): John Michael Hayes was a two-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter who wrote four films for Alfred Hitchcock. But before that, he was a busy radio writer penning adventures for Johnny Dollar and comedies for Lucille Ball. We'll hear three of...

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140: Lupe Velez (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 14): Mexican actress Lupe Velez was the victim of one of Anger’s cruelest invented stories. His fabrication of her manner of death lays bare a vicious racism in addition to Hollywood Babylon’s usual sexism. Today we will sort out the fact of Velez’s life from Anger’s fiction and consider the star of the Mexican Spitfire series as a comedienne ahead of her time.

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To The Stage: After A Year Away, Broadway Is Back: Three Broadway veterans recorded audio diaries of their experiences as Broadway returns.

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Cabin B13 - Bill and Brenda Leslie: While vacationing in London, Scottland Yard informs Bill Leslie that he is an exact double for a wanted murder. See what happens when Bill takes matters into his own hands.

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5: The Lives, Deaths and Afterlives of Judy Garland: Today we’re commemorating the life and career of Judy Garland, who died 45 years ago this month. Signed to a studio contract at the age of 13, encouraged to become a pill addict as a teenage MGM contract player, crowned a superstar by The Wizard...

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Ep 233 - Return to “Xanadu”

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Stick Fly (Part 1)

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Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and marathoning

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Dangerous Assignment: Henrich Schwandorff (Germany):   Choice Classic Radio presents to you Dangerous Assignment, which aired from 1949 to 1953. Today we bring to you the episode titled “Henrich Schwandorff (Germany).” We hope you enjoy the show! Please consider supporting our show by becoming a patron at ...

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Episode 281 – Doyle’s Day (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes): We're celebrating the birthday of Arthur Conan Doyle with radio adaptations of three of his greatest Sherlock Holmes mysteries. In these productions from the BBC, John Gielgud stars as Holmes with Ralph Richardson as Dr. Watson. The game's afoot in "A...

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277: The True Crime Case That Inspired Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" w/ Jason Isralowitz: In January 1953, a New York City musician named Christopher “ Manny” Balestrero was wrongly arrested for armed robbery, misidentified by eye witnesses. What followed was a nightmarish ordeal that completely devastated him and his family. Alfred...

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28: Star Wars Episode II: Carole Lombard and Clark Gable: The queen of screwball comedies married the king of Hollywood in 1939, but Lombard's 1942 death in a plane crash on the way home from a trip to sell war bonds drove Gable into a physical and emotional breakdown, and eventually the Army.

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Let’s Talk Elvis on August 16