Gig Young 2 The Very Unhappy Second Lead
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Tall, handsome and debonair on the outside looking in, Gig Young was a talented and successful actor, who found much success on film, tv and stage, throughout the 40s,50s, and 60s. He worked for all the key studios, including Warner Brothers, MGM, and Columbia, and appeared in many classic movies, including The Three Musketeers with Gene Kelly, Lust for Gold with Ida Lapino and Glen Ford, and Teachers Pet with Doris Day and Clark Gable. The quality and variety of his work was such that he acquired many nominations and awards. But from the inside looking out, Gig was a troubled and deeply...
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Maureen O Hara The Irish Queen of Technicolor
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In the second of this 2 part series on Hollywood Red Heads, this episode tells the story of Maureen O Hara, one of the most beautiful, athletic, and talented film actresses that ever graced Hollywood film. Born to a well to do family in southern Ireland, and a fierce Irish and American patriot, Maureen speedily rose up the film ladder, appearing in melodramas, westerns, musicals and adventure movies, many of which are viewed as some of the greatest Hollywood films ever made. Dubbed the Queen of Technicolor, she was and remains the quintessential female counter to John Wayne, their...
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Greer Garson: The Hollywood and very British War Hero and Star
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Greer Garson was one of the most successful British actresses of the classic Hollywood studio era. She was attractive, intelligent, hard working and talented. She appeared in some of the best and most memorable Hollywood films ever made, including movies which inspired and strengthened the British and American War effort during World War II. But Ms Garson's road to success was not an easy one. Throughout her life and career, she battled mutiple health scares, anorexia, and troubled marriages, as well as studio bosses and the occaisional leading man, who resented her...
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CHMTC Mini Episode 6
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Mrs Classic Film Fans latest reviews of 2 great biographical film books, including the latest Scot Eyman biography on the late, great Cary Grant.
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CHMTC Mini Episode 5
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A podcast about the lives and careers of the great Hollywood studio movie stars of the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
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Jerry Lewis The Comedy Auteur
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Episode 19 of the Film & TV podcast Classic Hollywood MTC, on the prolific life and career of the late great Jerry Lewis.
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CHMTC Mini Episode 4 Update
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This mini CHMTC episode gives a quick update on the new and upcoming episode of CHMTC and the launch of my new history focused podcast, called Is It Cos Im from Croydon?
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Tab Hunter The Movie Star who lived a double life
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A telling of the life and career, of the recently departed 1950s heart throb and movie star Tab Hunter.
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CHMTC Mini-Episode 3
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As promised this is brief episode about some of the sources I used to put the last 2 CHMTC episodes together. Also included in these notes are some of the links I mention via which you can access the sources metioned about these great stars. I have also found a great new podcast which can be accessed via Itunes and other avenues. You might want to give that a listen while you are waiting for the next CHMTC episode, which will be on the late, great and recently deceased Tab Hunter, who represented the next generation of Hollywood beefcake. Below the links mentioned in this episode:...
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Sterling Hayden The Hollywood Sailor
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Many film stars tell us that they are just ordinary people, who don't care about money, fame or possessions, but yet they go on living in their many luxury homes, riding in their fancy cars and accumulating tonnes of money, in their search for more and more acclaim and the rewards that go with it. Sterling Hayden, was a Hollywood movie star, who spoke his mind. He really liked being ordinary and really disliked being a Hollywood movie star. At first, troubled by his Hollywood fame, it eventually became a means to an end, the end being to service his real loves, sailing ships, his...
info_outlineThis is the first of a series of podcasts called "the British Are Coming." The series will cover the lives and careers of 4 great British film stars who left their mark on British and American Films in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
Merle Oberon, David Niven, Stewart Granger and the late great Stanley Baker were and remain filmatic forces to be reckoned with.
Talented, good looking, charming and unique they represented at least in terms of their public image the best of the British Empire.
Forging careers in the UK and Hollywood they reached levels of success that many British actors of today aspire to but are unlikely to achieve. But in true Classic film fashion they were also decidedly imperfect human beings who experienced many tears as well as laughter.
Merle Oberon, a child of the British Empire, was one of the most beautiful women that filmdom ever produced. She was a major film star of the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
When she died in 1979 she appeared to have it all, a handsome husband 25 years her junior, wealth, fame, children and a respected film career. But Merle Oberon was a women full of mystery and anxiety who spent over 40 years covering up her past and denying her true identity.
Enjoy the telling of the story of Merle Oberon by Mrs Classic Film Fan an actress who chose never to look back.
NB: Check out the pictures, articles and other sources of information which informed this episode on the great MO, which will be put on the Classic Hollywood MTC Facebook page over the next few days.