Podcast
Forgotten Hollywood
Hosted by JLJ Media · EN
Producer/Creator/Host Doug Hess takes you on a journey back in time and shares with you pieces. of Hollywood you may or may not have known about!
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Episode 426- The First Soap Opera Ever: Painted Dreams
2w ago00:09:06Tap to summarizeGuest Host James Lott Jr, spotlights the first soap opera created for Radio, Painted Dreams and its successor Todays Children. Irna Philips created both and changed the course of dramas forever!
Transcribe →Episode 425-Superman Wars with William Bernhart
2w ago00:26:37Tap to summarizeIn this episode I spoke with William Bernhart about his latest book "The Superman Wars: A Battle For Truth, Justice, and An American Icon". Almost everyone knows about the man from Krypton who, disguised as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent working with the fearless Lois Lane, fights for the vulnerable and the oppressed. But few know the truth about this indelible character’s creation.
Transcribe →Episode 424- Bugsy
3w ago00:24:03Tap to summarizeIn this episode, I spoke with mobster expert Larry Gragg about the film "Bugsy".
Transcribe →Episode 423-With Author Mayukh Sen- "Love Queenie: Merlie Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star"
3w ago00:23:11Tap to summarizeIn this episode, I spoke with author Mayukh Sen about his book "Love Queenie: Merlie Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star". A beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood.
Transcribe →Episode 422- "Vietnam on the Big Screen: How the Vietnam War Changed Hollywood"
4w ago00:22:02Tap to summarizeIn this episode, I spoke with author Joseph Hulihan about his book "Vietnam on the Big Screen: How the Vietnam War Changed Hollywood". America, it is said, deals with its trauma through the medium of Hollywood, and few experiences have been more traumatic than its involvement in the Vietnam War. As the last US helicopters fled the American Embassy compound during the fall of Saigon, they left behind a country devastated by twenty years of death and destruction.
Transcribe →Episode 421- Hollywood Haunts with author Robert Guffey
Apr 1600:25:14Tap to summarizeIn this episode, I spoke with author Robert Guffey about his Book "Hollywood Haunts the World". In Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos, Robert Guffey deconstructs the most powerful taboos of the twentieth century (and the initial decades of the twenty-first century) by analyzing how disturbing and transgressive ideas involving Theosophy, Gnosticism, Freemasonry, Darwinian Evolution, Surrealism, Freudian and Jungian psychology, race relations, paranoia, UFOs, xenophobia, political conspiracies, the JFK assassination, virtual reality, and alternate dimensions have been reflected in films―both American and foreign―throughout the past one hundred years.
Transcribe →Episode 420- "Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places and Events."
Apr 1300:20:09Tap to summarizeIn this episode, I spoke with author Carl Rollyson about his book "Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places and Events." From hefty biographies and fact-based novels to photograph collections and memoirs, more books have been written about Marilyn Monroe than any other female over the past century
Transcribe →Episode 419-Gilmore Girls: Pop Culture Reference Guide with author Matt Browning
Apr 900:23:00Tap to summarizeIn this episode, I spoke with author Matt Browning about his latest book "Gilmore Girls: Pop Culture Reference Guide". Finally understand every single pop culture joke, obscure reference, and witty one-liner that makes Gilmore Girls one of the most reference-packed shows in television history.
Transcribe →Episode 418 Stage Door with Author Kathleen Brady
Apr 600:21:40Tap to summarizeIN this episode I spoke with author Kathleen Brady to discuss one of her favorite Lucille Ball films Stage Door. A boardinghouse for female theater actresses gets a new arrival in the form of Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn), an upper-class woman pursuing her dreams against her wealthy father's wishes. At first, her status makes her unpopular with the other boarders, particularly her roommate, Jean (Ginger Rogers). As Terry becomes better acquainted with the other girls and their shared ambitions, rivalry -- both professional and romantic -- explodes among them
Transcribe →Episode 417- Ben Hur
Apr 200:21:37Tap to summarizeIn this episode Robert Ray comes on to discuss Ben-Hur (1959) in 4K for the Easter season.
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